Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 21 of 78

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Late Service Of Medical Malpractice Complaint

April 28, 2022

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on February 22, 2022: “It is well-established that “[s]ervice of process is a mechanism by which a court obtains jurisdiction of a defendant, and therefore, the rules concerning servic[...]

Kaiser Permanente Held Liable For Death Of Former Tennis Star

April 25, 2022

On February 11, 2022, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (“Kaiser Permanente”) was found by an arbitrator to be liable for the medical malpractice wrongful death of former professional tennis player Ken Flach. The arbitrator awarded Flach’s widow, Christina, and their four children $2[...]

Whistleblower Anesthesiologist Receives Portion Of $14.6M Concurrent Surgeries Settlement From Massachusetts General Hospital

April 22, 2022

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has agreed to pay $14.6 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it fraudulently billed government insurers for surgeries performed by trainees without proper oversight because supervising surgeons were working in another operating room, a practice known as c[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Expert Was Qualified To Render Opinions

April 19, 2022

The plaintiff in a Texas medical malpractice case filed against a hospital alleged that had Methodist Hospitals of Dallas d/b/a Methodist Mansfield Medical Center (MMMC) had proper policies, procedures, and training in place, those policies would have dictated proper diagnostic testing that would ha[...]

Florida Nurse Sentenced To Six Months For Tampering With ICU Patient’s Fentanyl

April 15, 2022

On January 28, 2022, former Jacksonville, Florida ICU nurse Jerome Clampitt II was sentenced to six months in federal prison, followed by six months of home detention, for tampering with a consumer product, specifically, injectable fentanyl. Clampitt had pleaded guilty on October 27, 2021. According[...]

Florida Appellate Court Vacates Directed Verdict For Hospital In Contaminated Heparin Medical Malpractice Case

April 13, 2022

The District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated January 21, 2022 “we reverse the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict in favor of Holmes Regional and remand for a new trial” in a Florida medical malpractice cas[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Peer Review Privilege Did Not Preclude Discovery Of Resident’s File In Medical Malpractice Case

April 12, 2022

The Ohio Court of Appeals Ninth Judicial Circuit (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its decision dated February 16, 2022 in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff sought the residency file of the doctor who allegedly failed to provide proper medical care to him in the hospital foll[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Discusses Medical Privacy Issues

April 9, 2022

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) discussed medical privacy issues and possible causes of action for violating a patient’s medical privacy in its opinion dated February 15, 2022 in a case where plaintiff Amanda Henry (“Henry”) filed claims agai[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Holds Hospital May Be Held Liable For Wrong CT Scan Being Ordered

April 7, 2022

In its opinion dated February 11, 2022, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that the trial court was wrong in granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital in a Kentucky medical malpractice case where the dispute was whether the proper CT[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Finds Factual Dispute As To When Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations Began To Run

March 25, 2022

Connecticut General Statutes (Rev. to 2015) § 52-584 provides in relevant part: ‘‘No action to recover damages for injury to the person, or to real or personal property, caused by negligence, or by reckless or wanton misconduct, or by malpractice of a . . . hospital . . . shall be brought but w[...]

Iowa $98 Million Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 24, 2022

On March 21, 2022, an Iowa medical malpractice jury deliberated for about 90 minutes after a 14-day trial before it returned its verdict in the amount of $97.4 million in favor of the parents of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage during delivery in 2018 as a result of the improper use of [...]

California Appellate Court Finds Father Sufficiently Pled Cause Of Action For Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress In Lawsuit For Harvesting Daughter’s Organs Without His Consent

March 16, 2022

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Fifth Appellate District (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on January 31, 2022 that the trial court erred in dismissing a father’s lawsuit against a hospital and Donor Network West for intentional inf[...]

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