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Maine Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Radiologist Who Negligently Misread CT Scan

June 12, 2019

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court (“Maine Appellate Court”), in its decision filed on May 30, 2019, affirmed the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant radiologist in a Maine medical malpractice case where the plaintiff claimed the radiologist negligently [...]

Maine Supreme Judicial Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hand Surgeon

March 23, 2019

In its decision filed on March 12, 2019, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a Maine medical malpractice jury’s award of $2 million to a man who had surgery on his right wrist that the jury found to have been negligently performed and the defendant surgeon negligently failed to timely di[...]

$2M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Hand Surgery

November 29, 2017

On October 27, 2017, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded $2 million to the plaintiff in his medical malpractice lawsuit against his hand surgeon and the hospital where he had his hand surgery. The plaintiff’s Maine medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that the defendant hand surgeon had br[...]

$300K Dental Malpractice Verdict Against Maine Dentist

November 21, 2017

On October 16, 2017, a Maine dental malpractice jury found in favor of a dental patient who suffered a serious infection requiring substantial medical treatment after the defendant dentist extracted two of his teeth in late December 2011. Three days after the extractions, on January 3, 2011, the pla[...]

$500K Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unauthorized Tissue Samples Taken From Stillborn Fetus

October 17, 2017

A Maine medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $500,000 in favor of the plaintiffs in a Maine medical malpractice case in which the plaintiffs alleged they suffered severe emotional trauma when a pathologist working at the hospital where their 18-week fetus was stillborn took[...]

Connecticut Physician Denied Maine Medical License Due To Alleged Sexual Misconduct With Patients

June 12, 2015

A Connecticut physician who had applied for a permanent Maine medical license has been denied his request due to four claims of alleged sexual misconduct with former patients in Maine who have filed lawsuits against the physician. The physician, who is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabil[...]

$7.65M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Cancer Diagnosis

May 22, 2015

On May 19, 2015, a Maine medical malpractice jury found in favor of the husband and wife plaintiffs and against the defendant hospital, determining that the 63-year-old wife was entitled to $5.65 million in damages for her cancer misdiagnosis (the failure to timely diagnose cervical cancer) and th[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Insurer Announces Large Dividend And Rate Reduction

August 12, 2014

Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (“Medical Mutual”), the dominant medical malpractice insurance company in Maine that insures approximately 3,000 Maine physicians as well as more than 20 Maine hospitals (about 63% of the medical malpractice insurance market in Maine), announced[...]

Maine Psychiatric Hospital Sued By Pregnant Worker Stabbed By Patient

May 24, 2014

A 27-year-old female Maine mental health worker filed a federal lawsuit on May 19, 2014 for the injuries she suffered on March 16, 2013 when she was repeatedly stabbed by a patient who was known to the facility to be violent, alleging that her employer failed to protect her. The plaintiff was 18 wee[...]

$1.1M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Heart Surgery

April 10, 2014

On March 28, 2014, a Maine medical malpractice jury determined that a Maine physician was negligent in his treatment of a 63-year-old man who underwent heart bypass surgery on November 9, 2010 but died four days later after he was allegedly not provided a proper blood transfusion. The same Maine[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis

June 20, 2013

On June 13, 2013, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded a now 47-year-old man $200,000 for his severe emotional trauma due to his physician misdiagnosing his cancer as a much more aggressive form of pancreatic cancer (stage 4) rather than the more treatable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that he ac[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Defendant Anesthesiologist

June 9, 2013

After six days of trial and three and a half hours of jury deliberations, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant anesthesiologist. The patient sued the anesthesia practice that employed the anesthesiologist as well as a hospital, alleging that he was injured a[...]

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