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Kansas Neurosurgeon Consents To Two-Year License Suspension

April 2, 2014

Pursuant to a Consent Order dated February 14, 2014, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, which is the sole and exclusive administrative agency in the State of Kansas authorized to regulate the practice of the healing arts (“Board”), suspended the Kansas medical license of a neuros[...]

Kansas Senate Seeks Medical Malpractice Cap Increase And Other Reforms

March 1, 2014

The Kansas Senate has taken the initial step to increase the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in all personal injury actions, including medical malpractice cases, that was enacted in 1988 but had not increased since then despite inflation. The original Kansas cap on noneconomic damages in medic[...]

Kansas Senate Distrusts Its Citizens To Decide Medical Malpractice Cases

February 23, 2014

On February 19, 2014, the Kansas Senate passed Senate Bill 119 that would require that Kansas medical malpractice claims be initially filed with a three-member panel that would determine if the defendant(s) breached the applicable standard of care in rendering (or failing to render) medical care [...]

$153,000 Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Thyroid Cancer Surgery Upheld

August 23, 2013

On August 19, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) upheld a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $153,000 that a federal jury in Kansas had awarded the plaintiff in her medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a surgeon who was su[...]

Kansas Inmate Medical Malpractice Settlement

December 22, 2012

On December 17, 2012, the Shawnee County, Kansas Commissioners approved a $150,000 settlement to the survivors of an inmate who died in November 2009 while imprisoned in its jail. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2012 by the prisoner’s aunt and mother against the [...]

Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Damages Cap In Medical Malpractice Cases

October 6, 2012

In its opinion published on October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) upheld Kansas’ $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases as constitutional. The case is captioned Miller v. Johnson, Case No. 99,818 (“Mille[...]

Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For medicalmalpracticelawyers.com

December 29, 2011

Today, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice cla[...]

One Of The Largest Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdicts

November 30, 2011

Kansas is known to be one of the most conservative jurisdictions for jury verdicts in medical malpractice cases (when we say “conservative,” we mean low jury verdicts). However, there is one Kansas medical malpractice verdict that stands out from the rest. In the case MLM, by and through[...]

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