Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 22 of 38

Maryland Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case Filed in Baltimore

November 19, 2016

The estate of a former nursing home resident and his three adult children have filed a Maryland nursing home negligence wrongful death case against the Maryland nursing home where the plaintiffs allege the resident failed to receive the care he needed that resulted in his untimely and painful death.[...]

Maryland Hospital NICU Closed For Second Time In Three Months For Bacterial Outbreak

November 3, 2016

For the second time in several months, the Prince George’s Hospital Center in Maryland has closed its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) due to an outbreak of Pseudomonas, a potentially deadly bacterium. Five babies who were in the hospital’s NICU have been transferred to other hospital[...]

Failed Sterilization Procedure Leads To Maryland Medical Malpractice Claim

October 30, 2016

A Maryland woman who had several young children advised her OB during her most recent pregnancy that she wished to have her tubes tied after she gave birth so that she would not have any more children because she and her husband could not afford to raise any more children. The OB agreed to perform [[...]

$4M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiologist For Wrongful Death

October 10, 2016

On September 30, 2016, a Baltimore County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of nearly $4 million against the defendant cardiologist for the wrongful death of a man as a result of the cardiologist’s negligence that the jury determined cau[...]

$1.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread CT Leading To Unnecessary Surgery

October 5, 2016

On September 23, 2016, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a conservative Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of $1.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who had his CT scan misread by the defendant radiologist, which led to unnecessary surgery that has left the man with severe chro[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Striking Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert

October 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on September 28, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the trial court’s striking of the plaintiff’s medical malpractice expert because the expert failed to sat[...]

$10M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict Will Be Reduced By More Than 90 Percent

September 30, 2016

A Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a widow and her eight children in the amount of $10 million on September 22, 2016, due to the medical negligence of the medical malpractice defendants that led to the husband/father’s death, but the Baltimore medical malpra[...]

Maryland Pain Management Physician Agrees To Surrender His Medical License In Prescriptions-For-Sex Scheme

September 4, 2016

On July 13, 2016, a Maryland internal medicine physician who practiced pain management agreed to surrender his medical license “to avoid further prosecution of the disciplinary charges now pending,” following the Maryland Board of Physicians’ investigation into complaints against[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation

August 30, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unreported opinion filed on August 17, 2016 that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to establish that the 19-day delay from a radiologist’[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Admissibility Of Prior Physician Discipline When Testifying As A Medical Expert

August 23, 2016

In its opinion filed on August 19, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held that § 14-410 of the Health Occupations Article of the Annotated Code f Maryland (“HO”) generally prohibits the admission of a conse[...]

$6.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Default Judgment For Botched Abortion Leading To Disabled Baby

August 12, 2016

On August 5, 2016, a federal judge in Maryland entered a default judgment in the amount of $6.5 million against the defendant OB and his women’s health clinic after the defendants failed to respond to the plaintiff’s amended complaint. The plaintiff had alleged in her federal Maryland me[...]

Maryland Hospital’s NICU Temporary Closed Due To 3 Babies With Serious Bacterium, 2 NICU Deaths Last Week

August 10, 2016

A Maryland hospital’s NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) has been temporarily closed, and nine babies in the NICU have been transferred to other hospitals, after the bacterium Pseudomonas was found in a water pipe that provides water to the NICU. The water was tested following the deaths of t[...]

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