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New York Appellate Court Reinstates Tick Bite Medical Malpractice Case

September 8, 2024

Plaintiffs, as the administrators of decedent’s estate, commenced their New York medical malpractice action against defendant Ellis Hospital, an urgent care, and a physician assistant, the physician assistant’s supervising physician, and another physician, alleging that they failed to ti[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against IDSA Regarding Its Guidelines For Treating Lyme Disease

January 27, 2024

A professional society specializing in the study and treatment of infectious diseases published guidelines in a peer-reviewed medical journal for treating Lyme disease. Individuals who claim to suffer from persistent Lyme disease symptoms sued the society, alleging the guidelines harmed them by cast[...]

Chronic Lyme Disease In The United States

January 22, 2024

Lyme disease has been a nationally notifiable condition in the United States since 1991. Reports of Lyme disease are collected and verified by state and local health departments in accordance with their legal mandate and surveillance practices. After removal of personal identifiers, selected informa[...]

$6.5 Million Lyme Disease Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 17, 2023

Earlier this year, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a local hospital and in favor of a 25-year-old man whose Lyme disease was not timely diagnosed or treated, leading to Lyme carditis and to his death eight days after his Lyme disease was finally diagnosed. The man had g[...]

New York Lyme Disease Lawsuit

June 21, 2023

A Verified Complaint filed on March 29, 2021 in the Superior Court of the State of New York County of Bronx alleged, in part: On or about May of 2013 infant plaintiff J.B. was under the medical care, diagnoses and treatment of defendants VERONICA SANTILLI, M.D., BELA REYNGOLD, M.D., and GALINA SLOOT[...]

$792,000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Timely Diagnose Lyme Disease

February 1, 2023

$792000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict: Following a two-week trial before a Baltimore medical malpractice jury, and after two hours of deliberations, the jury returned its verdict in the amount of $792,000 in favor of a 32-year-old African American man who suffered serious complications from [...]

Lyme Disease And Tick Bites

August 15, 2019

The CDC has published “TICKBORNE DISEASES OF THE UNITED STATES A Reference Manual for Healthcare Providers Fifth Edition, 2018” that provides the following advice: TICK BITES/PREVENTION Ticks are generally found near the ground, in brushy or wooded areas. They can’t jump or fly. Instea[...]

CDC Reports Record Number Of Tickborne Diseases In U.S. In 2017

December 1, 2018

The CDC reported on November 14, 2018 that state and local health departments reported a record number of cases of tickborne disease to the CDC in 2017. Cases of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis/ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis (including Rocky Mountain spotted fever), babesiosis, tularemia, and [...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule In Reinstating Failure To Diagnose Lyme Disease Case

October 20, 2018

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 17, 2018, “we respectfully find that the Superior Court erred by concluding, as a matter of law, that Plaintiffs knew or should have known sometime between July and[...]

“Lyme Disease in 2018”

August 3, 2018

An article published on August 2, 2018 in JAMA entitled Lyme Disease in 2018 provides important information regarding Lyme disease in the United States, including: “There has been considerable publicity about substantial increases in the incidence of Lyme disease; however, even though the inci[...]

CDC Warns About Rising Risk Of Vectorborne Diseases In U.S.

May 3, 2018

In its “Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United States and Territories, 2004–2016” published on May 1, 2018, the CDC reported that the data regarding the occurrence of nationally reportable vectorborne diseases during 2004–2016, which are most commonly tr[...]

Facebook Post Helps To Torpedo Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Case

January 7, 2017

In its decision filed on December 22, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) held that reasonable minds could not differ in the conclusion that the medical malpractice plaintiff knew, or reasonably should have known, between July and September, 2009, that her long-s[...]

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