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Kentucky Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict, Discusses Effect Of Empty-Chair Defendant

December 30, 2018

In its December 13, 2018 opinion, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) reinstated a medical malpractice verdict in favor of a hospital after discussing the effect of an empty-chair defendant (i.e., where a defendant physician who settled before trial was not present d[...]

Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Plaintiff’s Verdict In Medical Malpractice Case

September 20, 2018

In its opinion filed on August 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) held: any perceived distinction between the phrases “causing an event” and “contributing to an event” is a distinction without a difference; plaintiffs’[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Says Statute That Eliminated Wrongful Birth Claims Is Constitutional

July 17, 2018

The Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 15, 2018 that “K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 60-1906 is constitutional since a cause of action for wrongful birth was unavailable when our Constitution was adopted and thus does not implica[...]

Kansas Nursing Home Inspections Woefully Inadequate

May 12, 2018

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (“Department”) is responsible for inspecting nursing homes in Kansas in order to insure compliance with state and federal regulations. The Department is also responsible for investigating Kansas nursing home complaints and for inspe[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Hospital For Pancreatic Cancer Misdiagnosis, Concealment From Patient

August 21, 2017

On August 1, 2017, a woman who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by a hospital pathologist and underwent unnecessary surgery to remove multiple organs due to the misdiagnosis that was concealed from her filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, the former chair of the ho[...]

Kansas Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges Pathologist Misdiagnosed Cancer, Leading To Removal Of Healthy Organ

July 14, 2016

A physician employed at a Kansas hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit on July 1, 2016 against his hospital, alleging that the head of the hospital’s pathology department misread a tissue slide as showing cancer that resulted in the patient having a healthy essential organ surgically removed.[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Affirms $1.67M Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Judgment Against Pain Clinic

June 9, 2016

On May 27, 2016, the Kansas Court of Appeals (“Kansas Appellate Court”) affirmed the judgments entered in favor of the parents of a man who had committed suicide, and in favor of their son’s estate, against a physician and against a pain clinic, stating, “We hold that in wron[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Case Involving Suicide To Proceed

April 9, 2016

In its unreported decision filed on March 18, 2016, the Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Appellate Court”) reversed the dismissal of a Kansas medical malpractice case involving the suicide of a 28-year-old man who committed suicide shortly after being discharged from a st[...]

Kansas Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Choking Death

March 18, 2016

During late February 2016, the family of a Kansas nursing home resident who choked to death after being allowed to snack on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, despite being on a restricted diet (pureed foods and thickened liquids only), filed a federal lawsuit against the nursing home and others, f[...]

Kansas Supreme Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Radiologist In Medical Malpractice Case

April 2, 2015

In its opinion dated March 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) had to decide whether the Kansas medical malpractice plaintiff had provided sufficient evidence of causation to survive summary judgment in a case where it was alleged that the defen[...]

Internal Audits Question Cancer Doctor’s Competency

September 20, 2014

A cancer doctor who worked from 1993 until 2011 at a Kansas medical practice owned by approximately seventy physicians, and now works at another physician-owned cancer center in Wichita, Kansas, was the subject of internal audits beginning in 2010 that addressed whether the oncologist treated [...]

$2.88M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide After Pain Management Injections

April 11, 2014

A 40-year-old physically active Kansas man had chronic lower back pain for which he sought steroid injections intended to alleviate his pain. He first had epidural steroid injections into his back in May 2008 that were performed at a pain management clinic run by Board-certified anesthesiologists. W[...]

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