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Ohio Hospital Agrees To $5.25 Million Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Settlement

July 9, 2013

On June 27, 2013, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a $5.25 million settlement between an Ohio state hospital and the family of a newborn who suffered a profound brain injury due to alleged obstetrical medical malpractice. The child’s parents had filed a medical malpractice claim against the[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Due To Lack Of Health Insurance

July 7, 2013

On June 27, 2013, a Pennsylvania woman filed a medical malpractice case against a Pennsylvania hospital and four physicians in which she alleges that they were responsible for the wrongful death of her husband. The medical malpractice lawsuit seeks compensatory damages and punitive damages against[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Owed Duty To Pysch. Patient Who Left The Hospital ER And Jumped From A Bridge

July 5, 2013

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“the Appellate Court”) rendered its written opinion on June 27, 2013 in a case that held that the trial judge in a Maryland medical malpractice claim against a Baltimore hospital alleging serious injuries suffered by a patient with psychiat[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury’s Flip Flop Causes Problems For Everyone

June 28, 2013

An Ohio medical malpractice verdict rendered by an eight-person jury on May 2, 2013 after a nearly four-week trial is at the center of a controversy regarding whether it is a legitimate verdict and should stand. The controversy involves the fact that six of the jurors (the minimum number of jurors [...]

Chicago Hospital Pulmonologist Alleged To have Performed Unnecessary Tracheotomies

June 25, 2013

Some say that medicine is a cut-throat business. A hospital on the west side of Chicago applied that adage literally. According to the FBI, a Chicago for-profit hospital was able to bill as much as $160,000 for patients who received unnecessary tracheotomies due to a pulmonologist on the hospita[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $15.6 Million In Birth Injury Case

June 1, 2013

On May 30, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $15.6 million after three weeks of trial and almost three hours of jury deliberations for the brain damage resulting in severe learning disabilities and developmental delays suffered[...]

Elective Surgeries On Weekends Come With 86% Greater Odds Of Death

May 31, 2013

In a research article published by the well-respected British medical journal BMJ on May 28, 2013, the researchers reported that their review of all acute and specialist English hospitals carrying out elective surgery over three financial years, from 2008-09 to 2010-11, found that there was 44% h[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

May 30, 2013

In an opinion filed on May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge twice failed to remove jurors for cause when it was revealed that the first juror indicated an inability to [...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reinstates $3.2 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 22, 2013

It its decision issued on May 17, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) reinstated a $3.2 million verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff that the Alabama Supreme Court had earlier vacated in its decision dated January 14, 2011 that held that the m[...]

Study Finds Medical Malpractice Litigation Leads To Patient Safety Improvements

May 20, 2013

In an op-ed opinion by a law professor appearing on May 16, 2013 in The New York Times, the law professor discussed her survey of more than 400 people who are responsible for hospital risk management, claims management, and quality improvement in health care centers throughout the United States.[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Overturns Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 14, 2013

On April 25, 2013, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) overturned a $1 million medical malpractice jury verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff, holding that the trial judge committed reversible error in instructing the jury that they could consid[...]

New York $1.6 Million Settlement For Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury

May 13, 2013

In April 2013, a $1.6 million New York medical malpractice settlement was reached with the medical malpractice defendant hospital and the hospital’s chief resident as a result of alleged medical negligence in properly recognizing and managing a baby’s shoulder dystocia during delivery[...]

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