Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 35 of 38

Maryland Physician Wins Medical Malpractice Informed Consent Lawsuit

February 13, 2013

On January 25, 2013, a federal medical malpractice jury in Maryland found in favor of a neurosurgeon who was sued by his former patient for his alleged failure to obtain the patient’s informed consent before performing back surgery. The neurosurgeon claimed that he obtained the informed consen[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice $1.3 Million Jury Verdict For Paralysis Leading To Death

January 23, 2013

On January 17, 2013, a medical malpractice jury in a conservative jurisdiction in Maryland returned a verdict in favor of the surviving daughter of a patient and the patient’s estate for the alleged unnecessary paralysis and subsequent death of a 77-year-old woman who had arrived at a hospita[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice $1.42 Million Verdict For Wrong Site Surgery

January 16, 2013

On January 14, 2013, a Baltimore City medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.42 million for a surgeon’s wrongful removal of the woman’s right ovary and right fallopian tube when the surgeon was supposed to remove the woman’s dise[...]

Unnecessary Stent Claims

January 13, 2013

Stents are mesh tubes that hold blocked arteries open in order to improve blood flow. Stents are typically recommended for patients whose cardiac arteries are more than 50% or 70% blocked (U.S. guidelines state that an artery should be 50% blocked with cholesterol plaque before the disease is co[...]

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Claims

January 3, 2013

Many people are under the impression that Lyme disease is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and that Lyme disease misdiagnosis cases are also of recent vintage. However, Lyme disease misdiagnosis claims have been around for over a decade and appear to us to be increasing in frequency,[...]

Only The Doctor, Not The Hospital Or The Doctor’s Employer, Is Responsible To Obtain Informed Consent From The Patient

December 13, 2012

In a federal medical malpractice case pending in Maryland, a federal judge has determined that only the patient’s physician, and not the physician’s employer and not the hospital where the treatment was received, is responsible for obtaining the informed consent from the patient before b[...]

Maryland Lyme Disease Case: Pharmacy Held Responsible For Improper Doxycycline Instructions

December 11, 2012

On October 25, 2000, an infectious disease specialist diagnosed his patient with Lyme disease and gave her a prescription for doxycycline, a Tetracycline-based drug commonly prescribed for the treatment of Lyme disease. The specialist informed the patient that while taking doxycycline she cou[...]

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Update By The CDC

October 11, 2012

On October 10, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued an update regarding the recent fungal meningitis outbreak in which it reported that there have been 137 cases of fungal meningitis allegedly associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections in 1[...]

Maryland’s New Physician Advertising Law

October 8, 2012

Maryland enacted a new law regarding advertising by physicians that became effective on October 1, 2012. The new law can be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Health Occupations Article, Section 14-503, and is entitled “Advertising.” The intent of Section 14-503 is described as [...]

Court Says Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Request Was Filed Too Late

September 29, 2012

In a recently filed Maryland medical malpractice appellate court decision that will make some Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff attorneys cringe, the highest appellate court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), decided an appeal more than six years a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Of 7-Year-Old

September 26, 2012

It has been reported that a Maryland medical malpractice claim involving the death of a 7-year-old boy who died in 2009 as a result of alleged medical malpractice arising from hernia repair surgery performed by an urologist on December 18, 2008 has been settled for an undisclosed sum. The medical [...]

Maryland Surgery Center Closed Due To Infections

September 22, 2012

A cosmetic surgery center located in Baltimore County, Maryland that refers to itself as a “med spa” was forced to close on September 19, 2012 by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DHMH”) and the Baltimore County Department of Health after three of its lip[...]

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