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Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Involving Discrepancy Between ER Doc’s And Radiologist’s Interpretation Of X-Ray

April 18, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its February 21, 2020 Memorandum Decision, upheld an Indiana medical malpractice jury’s defense verdict in a case where the ER doctor interpreted a patient’s chest x-ray as normal and later a radiologist interpre[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Medical Malpractice Plaintiff To Add Federal EMTALA Claim

March 13, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on February 18, 2020 that the trial court properly denied the Indiana medical malpractice plaintiff’s request to amend his medical malpractice complaint to add an additional count alleging a feder[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Dismisses Nursing Home Negligence Appeal

January 20, 2020

In its opinion dated December 26, 2019, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held: “Joann Sartain filed a four-count complaint against Trilogy Healthcare of Hamilton II, LLC d/b/a Prairie Lakes Health Campus (“Prairie Lakes”). Prairie Lakes moved to dismi[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Nurse Practitioner With Regard To Timeliness Of Medical Malpractice Claim

December 14, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated November 21, 2019, reversed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant nurse practitioner (“NP”), finding that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to w[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Radiologic Technologist In Medical Malpractice Case

December 3, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated October 29, 2019, reversed summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant hospital involving its radiologic technologist (“RT”) in an Indiana medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that th[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms $2.3M Lack Of Informed Consent Jury Verdict For Failed Neuroma Procedure On Plaintiff’s Hand

November 19, 2019

In its opinion dated October 10, 2019, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) affirmed an Indiana medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff who had undergone five surgeries on his left hand after he suffered a crush injury at work, including [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Because Juror Said He Could Not Award Noneconomic Damages

October 31, 2019

In its opinion dated October 4, 2019, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) reversed the defense verdict reached by the jury in an Indiana medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit, stating, “We have little trouble concluding that a stated refusal to particip[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Finds No Error In Refusing To Strike For Cause Five Medical Malpractice Jurors Who Preferred A Higher Standard Of Proof

August 30, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 7, 2019, “Based on the record before us, we find that the trial court did not act illogically or arbitrarily when it denied [the plaintiff’s] for-cause challenges to the five indiv[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Says Claim Against Group Home Was For Medical Malpractice

July 22, 2019

The decedent received inpatient treatment for mental illness for five months after which he was admitted to the defendant group home that offered supervised living for patients who do not require inpatient services. The defendant group home, which is licensed as a Supervised Group Living home throug[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Overturns $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 5-Year-Old

June 22, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) in its Memorandum Decision filed on May 28, 2019 overturned a $3 million Indiana medical malpracyice verdict in favor of the parents of a five-year-old child who died after receiving a chemotherapy treatment due to chemotherapy [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Holds Negligent Dissemination Of Confidential Medical Information Was Ordinary Negligence, Not Medical Malpractice

May 16, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 6, 2019 that “the MMA [Indiana Medical Malpractice Act] is not applicable to claims involving negligent dissemination of protected health information and thus the trial court erred in grant[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds $15M Medical Malpractice Verdict Based On Apparent Agency Of Radiologist Who Missed Cancerous Mass

March 13, 2019

The United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on February 27, 2019 that “given the nature of health care services today … a medical center cannot hold itself out to the public as offering health care services[...]

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