Maryland Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 6 of 38

Maryland Appellate Court Agrees That Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Experts’ Opinions Be Stricken

April 19, 2024

Under a Daubert-Rochkind analysis, expert testimony is evaluated by a flexible inquiry into an expert’s reliability, focusing on the expert’s principles and methodology as opposed to their conclusions. The Supreme Court of Maryland has endorsed a non-exclusive list of factors that trial courts s[...]

$8.3M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Perforation During Surgery

April 12, 2024

In late March 2024, after an eight-day trial, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $8.3 million in favor of the family of a 53-year-old man who underwent surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center on May 29, 2019 during which the surgeon unknowingly per[...]

$3.38M Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Against Radiologist For Missed Cancer

March 1, 2024

Last week a Wicomico County, Maryland medical malpractice six-person jury awarded $3.38 million against defendants Peter Libby, M.D. and Peninsula Radiological Associates in favor of Mary Raver and her husband, Timothy, for the defendants’ alleged breach of the standard of care owed to Mary Ra[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Holds Injury From Medical Student Failing To Follow Patient’s Instruction Is Medical Malpractice Claim

February 29, 2024

The Appellate Court of Maryland, in its Per Curium unreported opinion filed on January 4, 2024, stated: Brian Keith Waugh, appellant, sued Dimensions Health Corporation, appellee, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, alleging medical malpractice. Waugh alleged that, while having his bl[...]

Baltimore Jury Awards $1.5 Million In Bedsore Nursing Home Malpractice Case

February 23, 2024

On February 15, 2024, a Baltimore nursing home malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.5 million for the death of a nursing home resident who died from an infection resulting from an avoidable bedsore that was not prevented by the nursing home. The Baltimore nursing home negligence[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Filed Her Claim Too Late

February 2, 2024

Maryland Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations The Maryland statute of limitations applicable to negligence claims against health care providers is set forth in Section 5-109(a) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJP”): An action for damages for an injury arising out of the re[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Pro Se Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Lawsuit As Untimely

December 1, 2023

On October 22, 2021, Mr. Ritchie—representing himself—filed a claim with the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office (“HCADRO”) against Dr. Damiano and Union Hospital. He alleged that, on March 26, 2018 about 8:40a.m., his girlfriend called 9-1-1 seeking medical help on his behalf.[...]

$9 Million Maryland Nursing Home Bedsore Verdict

August 26, 2023

$9 Million Bedsore Verdict: A Baltimore County Maryland nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of a nursing home resident who developed bedsores at a local nursing home where he had been a resident for about six months after he suffered a stroke. The six-person jury awarded $8 mi[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reinstates Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

August 1, 2023

Court Reinstates Deliberate Indifference Claim: Shelly Kaye Stevens (“Appellant”), as personal representative of the estate of James Allen Leslie Stevens (“Decedent”), filed a second amended complaint alleging Decedent suffered deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs while in cu[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Applies Virginia Law In Affirming Liposuction Maryland Malpractice Verdict

July 16, 2023

Background Facts Maryland Appellate Court Applies Virginia Law: The plaintiff underwent a six-and-a-half hour liposuction procedure in Virginia by a cosmetic surgeon who resided in Maryland. The plaintiff suffered a severe infection that she contended through her experts was introduced into her abdo[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Plaintiff An Opportunity To Prove Common Law Marriage In Pennsylvania

June 2, 2023

Court Allows Plaintiff Opportunity To Prove Common Law Marriage: Margaret Conway died on April 12, 2017, due to colon cancer. In February 2021, Thomas Zadnik filed a wrongful death complaint against Dr. Ambinder and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Ambinder’s employer. The Maryland medical malpractice [...]

Maryland Law Firm Loses Hospital Bed But Wins Legal Malpractice Claim

May 11, 2023

Firm Loses Hospital Bed But Wins Legal Malpractice Claim: In September 2013, Louis Nicassio was injured when the hospital bed he rented to recover from back surgery collapsed under him, and he hired Gregory Hopper of the law firm Bekman, Marder & Adkins, LLC (“BMA”) to represent him in a pro[...]

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