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Ex-NFL Football Player Files $180M Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleging Unnecessary, Career-Ending Knee Surgery

December 12, 2018

On November 6, 2018, a former NFL football player filed a $180M medical malpractice lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit In And For Orange County, Florida against a well-known orthopedic surgeon claiming that the defendant recommended and performed unnecessary knee surgey on th[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff Adequately Alleged Medical Battery Claim

November 28, 2018

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion issued on October 25, 2018: “We agree with appellees that their live pleading sufficiently pleads a claim for medical battery because it includes allegations that [the defendant oncologis[...]

How To Avoid Becoming A Medical Malpractice Victim – Part I: Ask Questions Until You Understand

September 25, 2018

This blog posting is the result of what we have learned after many years of assisting medical malpractice victims throughout the United States find local medical malpractice lawyers willing to investigate the reasons why they experienced unexpected and harmful results from medical treatment. Not all[...]

$400K Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Vermont Surgeon For Lack Of Informed Consent

September 6, 2018

In early August 2018, a federal medical malpractice juy in Vermont returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $400,000 against a Vermont surgeon whom the jury determined failed to advise the plaintiff regarding alternatives to the surgical procedure that resulted in the plaintif[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Discusses Legal Malpractice Case Arising Out Of Medical Malpractice Settlement

July 18, 2018

The May 30, 2018 opinion of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appelate Court”) discussed the convoluted history of a legal malpractice case arising out of a Louisiana medical malpractice case that should serve as a warning to all medical malpractice lawyers[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Surgeon’s Experience May Be Relevant To Lack Of Informed Consent Claim

July 16, 2018

The Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 15, 2018 that “[t]he duty to disclose under Iowa’s informed-consent law turns on whether a reasonable person in the patient’s position would consider the information at issue to be material to th[...]

Texas Supreme Court Reverses $1.9M Medical Malpractice Verdict Where Inexperienced Resident Injured Patient During Surgery

June 15, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) issued an opinion on May 25, 2018 that overturned a $1.9 million Texas medical malpractice verdict because the issues of whether the defendant attending surgeon was negligent in involving and supervising an inexperienced resident surgeon[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Alabama Medical Malpractice Law Requires Actual Injury For Informed Consent Claim

April 14, 2018

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 30, 2018 that Alabama law requires that there be an actual injury caused by the treatment in order for a plaintiff who claims that he did not give informed consent t[...]

Human Rights Watch Reports Too Many Nursing Home Residents Inappropriately Given Antipsychotic Medications

February 21, 2018

Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization established in 1978 that defends the rights of people worldwide and publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries each year, published a report on February 5, 2018 entitled R[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Applies Statute Of Repose To Dismiss Eight Medical Claims Against Former Spine Surgeon

January 10, 2018

The Ohio First District Court of Appeals (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 27, 2017 in eight consolidated cases on appeal that the Ohio statute of repose for medical claims was not unconstitutional and that the plaintiffs’ claims against a former spine [...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Adequately Plead Lack Of Informed Consent

December 29, 2017

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment granted by the trial court to the medical malpractice defendant, in an unpublished opinion filed on December 15, 2017, holding that the Californi[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Directed Verdict For Doctor On Informed Consent Claim

December 2, 2017

On November 17, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s directed verdict in favor of the defendant obstetrician in an Indiana medical malpractice case that also alleged that the defendant had failed to obtain the plaintiff’[...]

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