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Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms Res Ipsa Loquitur Did Not Apply In Medical Malpractice Case

April 11, 2019

In an unpublished opinion rendered on March 29, 2019, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that the Kentucky medical malpractice plaintiff had “failed to present any affirmative evidence that [the defendant hospital] breached the standard [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Bariatric Surgeon For Negligence That Occurred In The ICU

April 10, 2019

In its Order dated March 28, 2019, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment granted to the defendant bariatric surgeon in a New York medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff sought to hold the defendant[...]

$2.35M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delayed Diagnosis Of Aortic Aneurysm

April 8, 2019

On March 6, 2019, three defendant physicians agreed to settle a medical malpractice case in which they were alleged to have failed to timely diagnose and treat a hospital patient’s aortic aneurysm in the emergency department, which led to his death. The defendant emergency room attending physi[...]

$6.1M Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 19-Year-Old In ER

April 6, 2019

An Oklahoma medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs on March 21, 2019, awarding the family of a 19-year-old who died as a result of hospital medical malpractice in the emergency room $6,190,000 for the teenager’s wrongful death. The Underlying Facts While attending college du[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds Affidavit Of Merit Not Necessary In Ordinary Negligence Claim Against Hospital

April 5, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its unpublished decision filed on March 25, 2019, reversed the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s complaint filed against a hospital “because some of the claims asserted in pl[...]

MedStar Health Agrees To Pay U.S. $35 Million To Resolve Allegations That It Paid Kickbacks To MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates In Exchange For Referrals

April 3, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 21, 2019 that MedStar Health Inc. (“MedStar”), which has its headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, and MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, have agreed to pay the United States $[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Against Agency Nurse Not Identified In Hospital Records

April 2, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated March 21, 2019: “Plaintiff and her counsel pursued reasonable steps to ascertain the true identity of Agency Nurse RN 104 before filing suit and before the statu[...]

D.C. Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of D.C. Medical Malpractice Lawsuit That Was Filed Too Late

March 27, 2019

In its opinion filed on March 14, 2019, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (“D.C. Appellate Court”) held: “to be eligible for the ninety-day statute-of-limitations extension set forth in D.C. Code § 16-2803, a plaintiff must serve presuit notice within ninety days before th[...]

Georgia Couple’s Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Flushed Their Stillborn Fetus Down The Toilet

March 26, 2019

A Georgia couple is suing a Georgia hospital for $2 million, alleging that in May 2018, while the woman was 16 weeks pregnant, she went to the defendant hospital where she delivered her stillborn fetus while sitting on the toilet in the hospital ER, and that a nurse and doctor then flushed the fetus[...]

USA TODAY Analysis Finds High Childbirth Complication Rates In Some U.S. Hospitals

March 20, 2019

A USA TODAY article entitled “Hospitals blame moms when childbirth goes wrong. Secret data suggest it’s not that simple” stated that “[a] USA TODAY analysis of billing data from 7 million births found about one in eight hospitals have complication rates of at least double the nor[...]

New Study Finds Hospital Births During The Night Or On Weekends Are Riskier

March 17, 2019

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal entitled “Clinical capital and the risk of maternal labor and delivery complications: Hospital scheduling, timing and cohort turnover effects” found that the quantity of delivery complications in hospitals are substantially[...]

$14M Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Stroke Following Cardiac Cathetherization

March 5, 2019

A now 22-year-old woman won her Seattle, Washington medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital and a physcians’ group that alleged that she suffered a stroke shortly after a cardiac catheterization procedure performed at the defendant hospital that was not diagnosed and treated in a timely[...]

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