Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 21 of 38

Baltimore Assisted Living Home Licensed For Four But Housed Sixteen

March 15, 2017

A Baltimore assisted living home that was licensed for four beds actually housed sixteen residents, according to a Baltimore County police investigation. The Maryland Office of Health Care Quality initiated an investigation after the cousin of an 85-year-old resident of the Maryland assisted living [...]

Proposed Maryland Law Would Require Physicians To Have Medical Malpractice Insurance

March 11, 2017

Maryland Senate Bill 195, which passed its Third Reading in the Maryland Senate on a vote of 45-to-zero on March 10, 2017, if signed into law as originally drafted, would require physicians licensed in Maryland to (1) maintain medical professional liability insurance in the amounts of $500,000 per [...]

Bill Introduced (Again) To Establish Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund

March 7, 2017

HB 1347 was introduced in the Maryland General Assembly during the current 2017 Session, which is entitled “Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund,” that would establish a system for adjudication and compensation of claims arising from birth-related neurological injuries, which would cost[...]

Maryland Proposed Legislation Would Allow Hospitals To Establish Patient Safety Early Intervention Programs

February 28, 2017

Proposed legislative bills cross-filed in both the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate during the current 2017 Session of the Maryland General Assembly, if passed and signed into law by Maryland’s Republican Governor, would allow Maryland hospitals to establish “patient [...]

Maryland State Senator Called Unethical By Judge In Baltimore Medical Malpractice Case

February 24, 2017

During a January 25, 2017 hearing on the defense request for a postponement of trial in a Baltimore medical malpractice case, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge called a Maryland state senator who entered his appearance on behalf of the medical malpractice defendant, the University of Maryland Medical [...]

$1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Loss Of Eye

January 25, 2017

On December 3, 2016, a Montgomery County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a man and his wife for the man’s loss of sight in his left eye following surgery to address a detached retina. The plaintiffs alleged in their Maryland medical malpractice complaint tha[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Operator Charged With Dumping Residents

January 3, 2017

On December 21, 2016, Maryland’s Attorney General announced that his office has filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Neiswanger Management Services, LLC (“NMS”), the operator of five Maryland nursing homes, for unsafely and unlawfully evicting frail [...]

Baltimore Sun Commentary: “Ban Medical Malpractice Lawsuits”

December 28, 2016

On December 27, 2016, the Baltimore Sun published a commentary entitled “Ban medical malpractice lawsuits” that was written by someone whose qualifications to propose such included his PhD in chemical engineering and his retirement from Dupont in 1985. The commentator wrote, “Aboli[...]

Federal Appellate Court Decides Coverage Dispute Between Two Medical Malpractice Insurance Companies Regarding Agency Nurse

December 17, 2016

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) decided in its opinion filed on December 6, 2016 that a nurse employed by a staffing agency and assigned to work at a hospital qualified as an “employee” of the hospital under the hospital’s medical malpr[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Judgment For Defendant OB On Informed Consent Claim In Maryland Birth Injury Case

December 13, 2016

In its unreported opinion filed on December 6, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court entering judgment in favor of the Defendant OB at the close of the plaintiff’s side of her medical malpractice case that alleged the lack o[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Overturns Transfer Of Medical Malpractice Case Granted To Defendants

December 8, 2016

In its unreported opinion filed on December 5, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, ruled that the trial court abused its discretion in transferring a medical malpractice case filed in Baltimore City to a rural[...]

Appellate Court Discusses “Judicial Notice” In Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

December 7, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) discussed the role of “judicial notice” in an unreported opinion issued on November 28, 2016 that involved a Maryland medical malpractice appeal. During the Maryland medical malpractice jury trial, the trial judge w[...]

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