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$12.25M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pathologist’s Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Due To Slide Mix Up

April 19, 2019

Earlier in April 2019, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $12.25 million for the plaintiffs in an Iowa medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a pathologist mixed up the slides of tissue samples taken from the plaintiff and from a man who had prostate cancer[...]

$14M Iowa Wrongful Birth Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 16, 2019

On January 8, 2019, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the wrongful birth plaintiffs in the amount of $14,504,790, which included $285,000 for the mother’s emotional distress from the date of the injury to the present and $1,346,938 for her future emotional distr[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Affirms Nursing Home Waived Its Right To Arbitrate Negligence Claims

September 1, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on July 5, 2018 that the district court did not err in determining (1) it was to decide the issue of whether the defendants waived their right to arbitration based on their litigation conduct and (2) under t[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Allows Prior Nursing Home Citations, Punitive Damages In Nursing Home Case

August 1, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on June 6, 2018 that the trial court had not abused its discretion in allowing the Iowa nursing home negligence jury to consider the defendant nursing home’s prior deficiency citations, finding that th[...]

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[...]

$29.5M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Death From Allergic Reaction To Contrast Dye

July 9, 2018

An Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $29.5 million in favor of the family of a woman who died on June 9, 2015 as a result of an allergic reaction to the contrast dye administered to her during a CT scan. The June 13, 2018 Iowa medical malpractice verdict included [&[...]

Iowa Patient Safety Study Reports On Iowans’ Views On Medical Errors

January 16, 2018

The Heartland Health Research Institute published in December 2017 the results of its Iowa Patient Safety Study that consisted of approximately 115 questions asked of randomly-selected Iowans about their views and experiences while interacting with Iowa healthcare providers. The study, entitled R[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment In Penis Injury Malpractice Case

January 5, 2018

On December 20, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment in favor of the defendant hospital in an Iowa medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff claimed that a nurse’s insertion of an indwelling catheter led to the subsequent erosion o[...]

$10M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict Against CRNA For Wrongful Death

October 9, 2017

During the week of September 18, 2017, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $10 million in favor of the plaintiff for the wrongful death of an 80-year-old patient at an Iowa hospital due to the alleged medical negligence of a certified registered nurse anesthetist, [...]

Iowa Physician Charged With Improper Pain Management, Opioid Prescription Abuse

August 17, 2017

On July 20, 2017, the Iowa Board of Medicine (“Board”) filed its Statement of Charges against an Iowa family practice doctor who engaged in pain management, charging him with willfully or repeatedly violating a lawful rule or regulation adopted by the Board when he violated the standards[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Recognizes Wrongful Birth Claims

June 6, 2017

In its opinion filed on June 2, 2017, the Iowa Supreme Court recognized for the first time wrongful birth claims in which the parents of a child born with severe disabilities may bring a medical negligence action based on the physicians’ failure to inform them of prenatal test results showing a co[...]

Iowa Enacts Hurtful Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law

May 7, 2017

Iowa’s governor, Terry Branstad, signed into law on May 5, 2017 new legislation that limits noneconomic damages in Iowa medical malpractice cases to $250,000 unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function, substantial disfigurement[...]

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