Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 26 of 38

Maryland Medical Malpractice Judgment Does Not Preclude Subsequent Wrongful Death Claim

August 14, 2015

In an unreported decision by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) on August 7, 2015, the Appellate Court held that a judgment entered in favor of a decedent in a Maryland medical malpractice action (personal injury action) does not preclude a subsequent wrongful [...]

Man Indicted For Allegedly Injecting Silicone Into Women’s Buttocks In Maryland

August 11, 2015

On August 3, 2015, a federal grand jury in Maryland returned a nine-count indictment against a 44-year-old man, who was not a physician and was not otherwise licensed as a medical professional in Maryland, for allegedly obtaining and selling food grade liquid silicone from a company in Pennsylvan[...]

Maryland Whistleblower Will Receive $2.2M From $13.5M False Claims Settlement

August 6, 2015

A former Maryland sales agent for a medical device manufacturer will receive $2.2 million from the $13.5 million False Claims Act settlement recently reached between the U.S. government and the medical device manufacturer. The former sales agent had filed a federal lawsuit under the False Claims [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Birth-Related Injuries Leading To Death

August 3, 2015

On July 27, 2015, a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against a Baltimore hospital, alleging that the medical negligence of the hospital’s emergency room staff led to the premature birth of a baby who needed extensive care in a neonatal i[...]

Did Maryland Hospital Use Counterfeit Spinal Hardware?

July 22, 2015

A Maryland hospital has reportedly been sued by health insurers that allege that some spinal fusion patients who had their surgeries at the hospital may have been implanted with counterfeit spinal hardware. A spine surgeon who operated at the Maryland hospital has also been named in lawsuits, whic[...]

$4.4M Maryland Verdict For ICU Doctor Who Fractured His Wrist Due To Fall At Work

July 5, 2015

A Maryland critical care physician who worked in a hospital intensive care unit received a verdict in the amount of nearly $4.4 million on June 24, 2015, after a six-day trial, that includes $560,956 for past lost wages, $3,744,820 for future lost wages, $39,410.92 for past medical expenses, and [...]

Maryland Appellate Decision Regarding Informed Consent In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 28, 2015

In an unreported case from the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) filed on June 22, 2015, one of the issues the Appellate Court had to decide was whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence of informed consent in a medical malpractice case[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed For Resident’s Painful Death

June 26, 2015

A Maryland nursing home negligence lawsuit was recently filed by the grandson and daughter-in-law of an 85-year-old resident of a Baltimore nursing home who suffered an unexplained fracture of her left arm and an unexplained dislocated right arm while she was a resident of the defendant nursing h[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Plastic Left In Patient’s Abdomen Following Unnecessary Surgery

June 23, 2015

A woman filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit on June 12, 2015 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that the defendant surgeon who performed robotic-assisted surgery on her to remove her right ovary and fallopian tube, which she alleged was unnecessary surgery because she had S[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Teenager’s Required Heart Transplant

June 16, 2015

On May 8, 2015, a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on behalf of a now 16-year-old former student athlete who was required to have a heart transplant, and may need further heart transplants in the future, allegedly due to the negligent failure of [...]

$600K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Untreated Surgical Complications

June 13, 2015

When the 72-year-old wife, mother of six, and grandmother went in for surgery on February 23, 2010 for a subtotal colectomy with an ileorectal anastomosis to treat her five-year history of diverticulosis, neither she nor her family could have imagined that she would die sixteen days later from surg[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Death Claim Settled Against Former Physician

June 3, 2015

It has been reported that a former Maryland physician, who lost his Maryland medical license last year after it was discovered that he had previously been convicted of rape in Florida, has settled a Maryland medical malpractice case (Maryland wrongful death case) filed against him by the family of [...]

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