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Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Loss Of Household Services Claim In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

November 3, 2019

In its reported opinion dated November 1, 2019, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, discussed what is necessary to prove a loss of household services claim in a medical malpractice wrongful death case. A Ma[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses “Same Or Related Specialty” Requirement In Medical Malpractice Case

October 30, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unreported opinion dated October 25, 2019 that “a licensed nurse practitioner, even one who is a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator, is not “in the same or related specialty” as a board-cer[...]

$6.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Loss Of Leg

October 24, 2019

On October 17, 2019, a Prince George’s County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a man who lost his right leg allegedly as a result of the defendant hospital’s orthopedic surgeon’s negligence following the man being involved in a rollover single-car[...]

Baltimore Hospital Found Not Liable For Inmate’s Suicide Death

October 11, 2019

After a nearly two-week trial and three hours of deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury determined on September 24, 2019 that a Baltimore hospital was not liable for the death of a prison inmate who broke the glass in the window of his hospital room and jumped five stories to his death.[...]

$150K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Hysteroscopy Leading To Hysterectomy And Loss Of Kidney

October 4, 2019

A Maryland medical malpractice jury on Maryland’s conservative Eastern Shore returned its verdict in the amount of $150,000 in favor of a woman who lost her kidney and suffered other substantial injuries as a result of a hysteroscopy that was botched by the defendant physician. The Maryland me[...]

Historic Maryland Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict Reduced By Trial Judge From $229.64M To $205.38M

September 27, 2019

The judge who presided over a Maryland medical malpractice birth injury trial that resulted in an historic verdict in the amount of $229,640,000.00 in July 2019 has ruled on the defense’s post-trial motions to reduce the verdict, thereby reducing the $25 million that the Maryland medical malpr[...]

Maryland Corporate Lawyer Dies During Her Own Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Trial

September 3, 2019

A 39-year-old corporate lawyer was in the middle of her own two-week Maryland medical malpractice trial when she died of breast cancer on August 31, 2019. The well-respected lawyer, who was also a regent for the University System of Maryland, alleged in her Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that [...]

Maryland Court Of Appeals Finds No Gross Negligence By Baltimore City Paramedics, Overturns $3.7M Verdict

August 17, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on August 16, 2019 that the two Baltimore City paramedics who were the defendants in a Baltimore wrongful death action “were not grossly negligent in t[...]

Maryland School Board Sues Pharmaceutical Company For Drug That Used To Cost $40 And Now Costs $40,000

July 23, 2019

The Washington County (Maryland) Board of Education has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. (“Mallinckrodt”), alleging that Mallinckrodt engaged in an unjust, unfair, and deceptive scheme and conspiracy along with its exclusive distributor, Express Script[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Complaint Was Filed Too Late

July 17, 2019

Maryland’s Health Care Malpractice Claims Act (“the Health Care Claims Act”), codified in Maryland Code (1976, 2013 Repl. Vol.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJP”), § 3-2A-01, et seq., mandates that claims against a health care provider seeking damages (if [...]

$1.75M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Late Diagnosed Aortic Dissection

July 12, 2019

On June 25, 2019, after a one-week trial and seven hours of deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the total amount of $1.75 million ($500,000 in economic damages, $500,000 in noneconomic damages to the surviving wife, $250,000 in nonec[...]

$229,640,000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Labor And Delivery Birth Injury

July 5, 2019

On July 1, 2019, after two-and-a-half hours of jury deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $229,640,000 in favor of the plaintiff against a Johns Hopkins hospital for the catastrophic brain injury suffered by her premature baby born at the hospital [...]

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