Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 13 of 38

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.35M For Death Of Patient Following Neck Surgery

February 24, 2020

On February 18, 2020, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury took only 47 minutes after a five-day trial to award the son of a patient who died a day after spinal surgery on his neck, $51,562 for medical expenses, $4,209 for funeral expenses, and $1.3 million in noneconomic damages for pain and suffer[...]

Maryland Victims’ Rights Advocacy Group Opposes Proposed “Maryland Infant Lifetime Care Trust”

February 20, 2020

In the wake of the 2019 Maryland birth injury medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $229.64 million, which was subsequently reduced by the trial judge to $205.38 million, and which was nonetheless the largest such verdict in the United States ever, the well-financed healthcare industry and in[...]

Record $229M Baltimore Birth Injury Jury Verdict Leads To Legislative Effort (Again) To Establish Fund To Pay Future Medical Expenses

February 19, 2020

A record $229 million jury verdict in a Baltimore birth injury medical malpractice case in 2019 has led to the introduction of bills in the Maryland Legislature to establish a fund from which future medical expenses in such cases would be paid, which is supported, naturally, by the Maryland Hospital[...]

Fourteen Former Patients Sue Maryland Hospital Alleging Use Of Counterfeit Surgical Hardware

February 17, 2020

The University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) have been sued by fourteen former patients who allege in their lawsuit filed on January 6, 2020 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City that an orthopedic surgeon who works at the hosp[...]

Maryland Pediatrician Sentenced To One Year Incarceration For Sexually Abusing Patient, Faces Many Additional Charges For Other Patients

January 31, 2020

On November 1, 2019, a long-time Maryland pediatrician was convicted of second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense of an 18-year-old patient who had been his patient since she was a baby. The 69-year-old Maryland pediatrician was found not guilty of second-degree rape, reportedly because[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Holds Cremation Was Not Spoliation Of Evidence In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

January 30, 2020

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its published opinion dated January 29, 2020: “We expressly reject the Appellants’ assertion that Ms. Mattingly had a duty to preserve her son’s remains[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Certificate Of Qualified Expert Requirements In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

January 29, 2020

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unpublished opinion dated December 26,2019: “The ministerial act of transferring the case from the HCADRO to the circuit court—an action the Director [...]

$5.8M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Hospital

January 16, 2020

On January 14, 2020, a Baltimore City medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,870,000 against the University of Maryland Medical System (“UMMS”) that included $62,177 in economic damages, $9,972 in funeral expenses, and $5.8 million in noneconomic[...]

Maryland Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed

December 15, 2019

On November 29, 2019, the widow of a man who died in 2016 less than twenty hours after he was released from the Allegany County Detention Center in Maryland filed a deliberate indifference medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland loc[...]

$1.84M Baltimore Lead Paint Study Verdict For Sibling

December 6, 2019

On November 12, 2019, a Baltimore lead paint jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.841 million in favor of the older sibling of a lead paint study participant in a lawsuit filed against Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2009 related to its Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Repair and Maintenance Stu[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Where Certificate Of Qualified Expert And Report Were Untimely Filed

December 5, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in its unreported opinion dated November 27, 2019, affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit where the plaintiff failed to timely file the required Certificate of Qualified E[...]

$900K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Full-Term Fetus In Utero

November 24, 2019

On November 19, 2019, a Prince George’s County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $900,000 in favor of the parents of an unborn child who died because the defendant health care provider negligently failed to timely diagnose and properly treat her pregnancy[...]

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