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Illinois Appellate Court Says No Apparent Agency To Hold Hospital Responsible For Surgeon’s Alleged Negligence

September 8, 2021

In its opinion dated August 10, 2021, the Appellate Court of Illinois First District Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held: “To defeat a claim of vicarious liability, all that was required of Silver Cross [Hospital and Medical Center] was evidence that Tracy [Delegatto][...]

APIC Statement Regarding Resistant C. Auris Spreading In U.S. Healthcare Facilities

August 25, 2021

On July 23, 2021, the CDC issued a report in which it stated, “Candida auris is an emerging, often multidrug-resistant yeast that is highly transmissible, resulting in health care–associated outbreaks, especially in long-term care facilities. Skin colonization with C. auris allows spread a[...]

$34.77M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Newborn’s Catastrophic Injuries

August 18, 2021

On August 16, 2021, after a two-and-a-half week trial and two days of jury deliberations, a Baltimore City medical malpractice jury found against defendant MedStar Harbor Hospital for the irreversible hypoxic brain injury suffered by a newborn just hours after his birth. The Baltimore medical malpra[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Establish Apparent Authority To Hold Defendant Hospital Liable

August 15, 2021

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated July 20, 2021 that “there was insufficient evidence from which a reasonable jury could make the requisite finding that Mr. Williams subjectively believed that Dr. Blundon or,[...]

German Court Awards $535,000 For Delay In Brain Tumor Surgery Due To Easter Holiday

August 10, 2021

A German court on June 23, 2021 ordered Hamburg-Eppendorf University Clinic to pay a now 23-year-old man $535,000 in compensation for pain and suffering, and to pay all future medical expenses, due to a surgeon’s delay in operating on his brain tumor because of a medical staff shortage during [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Favor Of Drug Rehab Facility

July 28, 2021

A medical malpractice jury in Pennsylvania returned a defense verdict on June 8, 2021 in favor of the defendant drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that had been sued with regard to the death of a 23-year-old, 316-pound male inpatient who had been admitted for Oxycodone and Xanax addictions. Th[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms No Violation Of EMTALA

July 22, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) affirmed in its decision dated June 28, 2021: “Beginning with the EMTALA [Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act] claims, we agree that the operative complaint alleges no facts that wou[...]

$3.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

July 21, 2021

On May 29, 2021, a Missouri medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict of almost $3.2 million in favor of the parents of a one-year-old who died three hours after he was seen in an urgent care clinic at CoxHealth Hospital in Branson, Missouri, on June 5, 2017. The urgent care clini[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital And Nurse In Heart Attack Medical Malpractice Case

July 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on June 16, 2021: “there is evidence suggesting that the patient warranted care his treating physician did not provide to him. Experts testified that Moss should have been placed on the Level II t[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Overturns $100K Judgment Against Hospital For Defective Glidewire

July 15, 2021

An Alabama man (Cameron Murphy) underwent a ureteroscopy procedure to remove kidney stones. During the procedure, defendant Dr. Margaret Vareb, a board-certified urologist employed by defendant Jackson Hospital, used a glidewire to establish the correct surgical path to Murphy’s kidneys throug[...]

Confidential Settlement Reached In South Dakota Infant Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

July 11, 2021

It has been reported that the parents of an infant who died as a result of alleged medical malpractice at Avera McKennan Hospital in South Dakota have reached a confidential settlement of their claims. The settlement was reached during mediation that a court filing described as “a fair and rea[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Inappropriate In tPA Medical Malpractice Case

July 6, 2021

In April 2017, New York medical malpractice plaintiff E. Ann Holland was delivered by ambulance to defendant Cayuga Medical Center symptomatic of a stroke. After a CT scan revealed that she was indeed suffering a stroke in the left cerebral artery and that it was ischemic in nature, the physician on[...]

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