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Delaware Medical Malpractice Trial For 8-Month Erection Problem

June 14, 2013

A medical malpractice trial is underway in Delaware against a Wilmington urologist by his former patient who clams that the urologist’s medical negligence in performing his penile implant surgery caused him to have an erection that lasted 8 months. The three-piece inflatable penile implant [...]

Oklahoma Surgeon Couldn’t Get Man’s Nose Right After 22 Surgeries

June 12, 2013

In 2006, a New York man, while living in Oklahoma, went to a well-respected cosmetic surgeon following his divorce in 2006 for rhinoplasty (a “nose job”) even though he had no problems with breathing at that time and no medical need for surgery on his nose. After the first surgery, he [...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Botched Breast Enlargement Surgery

June 7, 2013

A 27-year-old West Virginia woman and her husband filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on May 17, 2013 against her breast augmentation surgeon for his alleged medical negligence in performing breast enlargement surgery on February 4, 2010. The medical malpractice plaintiffs allege that the woman f[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

May 30, 2013

In an opinion filed on May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge twice failed to remove jurors for cause when it was revealed that the first juror indicated an inability to [...]

New York Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Patronizing Trial Judge

May 29, 2013

In it’s decision dated May 15, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of New York (“New York Supreme Court”) overturned a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice defendant and ordered that the medical malpractice case be retried before a different trial judge because “The [...]

E Street Band’s Clarence Clemons’ Family Files Medical Malpractice Case

March 18, 2013

Clarence Clemons was the well-known and very talented saxophonist with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band for many years. When Clarence Clemons died at the age of 71 in June 2011, it was reported that he died as a result of complications from a stroke. As it turns out, he had had carpal tunnel[...]

New York Hospital Sued For Hepatitis Allegedly Caused By Reusing Insulin Pens

March 7, 2013

An upstate New York hospital has been sued for medical malpractice by three patients who claim they contracted hepatitis when hospital employees reused insulin pens (pen-shaped injector devices that contain a reservoir for insulin or an insulin cartridge) on different patients that were designed fo[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Following Hernia Surgery

February 14, 2013

On December 15, 2005, a 61-year-old man went to the hospital to have hernia repair surgery. After his surgery, he experienced increasing abdominal pain, he started to vomit, and he had other serious symptoms. It was later determined that the man had an inflamed colon, possibly due to the antibioti[...]

4 Myths Regarding Medical Malpractice Litigation In U.S. State Courts

February 1, 2013

Myth: State Courts Are Flooded With Medical Malpractice Cases Research into medical malpractice lawsuits filed in U.S. state courts in 2008 for 12 U.S. states found that medical malpractice cases represented less than 2% of all civil cases filed. In only two states, New York and New Jersey, we[...]

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[...]

Ohio Appeals Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 19, 2013

On January 8, 2013, the Tenth District Court of Appeals of Ohio issued its written decision in which it held that a settlement a plaintiff received from a non-state defendant in a medical malpractice case was not a “benefit” that must be offset from the amount of damages the plaintiff may reco[...]

Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Colorado Psychiatrist Arising Out Of Aurora Shootings

January 17, 2013

On January 14, 2013, the widow of a man killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012 during a shooting spree that killed 12 and injured another 70 filed a medical malpractice lawsuit and other claims in the United States District Court in Denver, Colorado against the University[...]

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