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Legal Malpractice Verdict For Failure To File Timely Colorado Medical Malpractice Case

January 12, 2015

After one week of trial and one day of jury deliberations, a Colorado legal malpractice jury determined on December 8, 2014 that the plaintiff’s former Colorado medical malpractice attorneys were negligent in their failure to file the plaintiff’s Colorado medical malpractice case befo[...]

New York Appellate Court Sets Standard For Bringing Legal Malpractice Claim After Unsuccessful Medical Malpractice Claim

October 27, 2014

In its October 21, 2014 decision, the Court of Appeals State of New York (“Court of Appeals”), New York’s highest appellate court, ruled that prior to commencing a legal malpractice action, a party who is “likely to succeed” on appeal of the underlying medical malpract[...]

$4 Million Virginia Legal Malpractice Win Following Medical Malpractice Loss

October 6, 2013

On September 27, 2013, a Richmond (Virginia) Circuit Court jury awarded $4 million to a young woman who became paralyzed from the chest down as a result of alleged medical malpractice that occurred in 2004, in her legal malpractice claim against her prominent Washington, D. C. medical malpractic[...]

Court Says Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Request Was Filed Too Late

September 29, 2012

In a recently filed Maryland medical malpractice appellate court decision that will make some Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff attorneys cringe, the highest appellate court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), decided an appeal more than six years a[...]

Apology From Thalidomide Manufacturer 50 Years Later

September 5, 2012

Thalidomide was introduced in 1953 by the family-owned German pharmaceutical company, Grunenthal, and was used by thousands of women throughout Europe and Canada to treat morning sickness associated with pregnancy during the 1950s. It was available as an over-the-counter drug in Germany beginning [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines That Two Separate Caps On Non-Economic Damages Apply For Wrongful Death Claims And Survival Actions In Non-Medical Malpractice Cases

September 4, 2012

On August 31, 2012, the intermediate appellate court in Maryland, known as the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), issued its written opinion in a case in which one of the issues was “whether the non-economic damage cap imposed by Md. Code (1974, 20[...]

Tennessee $7.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Necrotizing Fasciitis

September 3, 2012

On August 3, 2012, after a 15-day medical malpractice jury trial in Tennessee, a medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,816,740 in favor of a now-20-year-old man whose cut on his knee due to a fall onto an exposed nail in 2004 when he was 12-years-old was improperly trea[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Fined For Resident’s Rape

September 2, 2012

The Fairpark Healthcare Center nursing home in Maryville, Tennessee, which is owned by Kindred Healthcare Inc. (“Kindred”), has been fined $3,000 by the Tennessee Department of Health and is being fined $6,000 per day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)[...]

Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery

September 1, 2012

On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]

Wrongful Disclosure Of Mental Health Records

August 23, 2012

On August 2, 2012, a lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California for Riverside County that alleges the wrongful disclosure of a patient’s mental health records, in violation of federal and state laws. The lawsuit claims that the defendants in the present case were also the defenda[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Lead To Legal Malpractice Claims

May 2, 2012

A Putnam County, West Virginia attorney and his two former law partners are being sued for legal malpractice for the third time in a year for their alleged wrongful handling of medical malpractice claims against the same doctor. In this most recent case filed on April 13, 2012, the three plaintiff[...]

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