D.C.’s Highest Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict
December 11, 2014
By its decision issued on November 20, 2014, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed a jury’s $650,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case involving the alleged negligence of the nurses employed by the defendant hospital in failing to place sequential compression devices (SCDs) [...]
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Georgia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Neurosurgeon
November 28, 2014
Earlier this month, after three days of trial and two-and-a-half hours of jury deliberations, a Fulton County, Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a neurosurgeon who had been sued for allegedly contributing to his patient’s death shortly after spine surgery. The p[...]
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$20.6M Maryland Medical Malpractice Judgment Upheld
September 29, 2014
On September 25, 2014, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“CSA”), in an unreported opinion, upheld a Maryland medical malpractice judgment in the amount of $20,605,000 against the defendant hospital and defendant obstetrician. The jury had returned its verdict in the amount of $2[...]
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Nevada Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case
September 23, 2014
In its decision dated September 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) reinstated a Nevada medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court because the plaintiff’s expert affidavit attached to her medical malpractice complai[...]
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Confirmation Bias In Medical Malpractice Cases
September 4, 2014
Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias in which we favor information that confirms our previously held beliefs or biases, ignore contrary information, and which impacts not only how we gather information but also influences how we interpret and recall information. Because we tend to seek[...]
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