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California Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Adequately Plead Lack Of Informed Consent

December 29, 2017

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment granted by the trial court to the medical malpractice defendant, in an unpublished opinion filed on December 15, 2017, holding that the Californi[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancerous Pancreas Implanted Into Patient

December 21, 2017

A California medical malpractice lawsuit filed on December 7, 2017 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Sacramento alleges that the defendants transplanted into the plaintiff a pancreas and kidney from a donor who had metastatic cancer, resulting in the plaintiff[...]

Texas Freestanding ER Sued For Medical Malpractice For Death Of 4-Year-Old

December 4, 2017

On November 8, 2017, the distraught parents of a four-year-old child who died shortly after being seen in a Texas freestanding emergency room filed a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the for-profit corporate owner of the facility, alleging that the medical misdiagnosis of the[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Quest Diagnostic’s Standard Operating Procedures Are Confidential In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 25, 2017

In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleges that Quest Diagnostics misdiagnosed the decedent’s cancer, the non-precedential decsion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) filed on October 3, 2917 stated: “the evide[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For One Physician Where Both Defendant Physicians Said The Other Caused The Plaintiff’s Injury

November 10, 2017

The October 10, 2017 Decision and Order of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Devision, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) reversed the summary judgment that the trial court had entered in favor of one of the two defendant surgeons who were both sued by the plaintiff on beh[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Discusses Jury Bias In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

November 6, 2017

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in its non-precedential decision filed on October 6, 2017, affirmed the defense verdict entered in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case where a juror was employed by a company that did business with doctors and therapists who had privileges at the defendant hos[...]

New York Appellate Court Discusses Medical Malpractice Claims For In Utero Injuries

October 29, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) stated in its Memorandum and Decision dated October 6, 2017 that in a New York medical malpractice action brought by the mother where an infant is injured in utero as a [...]

12 Former Patients Sue New Mexico Psychiatrist For Malpractice, Sexual Misconduct

October 25, 2017

Twelve former patients of a New Mexico psychiatrist have sued him and the hospital where he practiced for psychiatric malpractice and sexual misconduct. The New Mexico medical malpractice complaint was filed on October 4, 2017 and alleges that each of the plaintiffs were victims of sexual abuse and [...]

Florida Federal Appellate Court Finds Inmate Claims Of Deliberate Indifference To Serious Medical Need Sufficient

October 24, 2017

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on October 3, 2017 that the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing an inmate’s complaint before any of the defendants filed a response or the parties had c[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Stillborn’s Body Sent Out With Dirty Laundry

October 22, 2017

A Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed by the family of a stillborn baby against the hospital where the delivery of the 22-week-old baby occurred, for the alleged negligence of the hospital in failing to send the body for cremation, as was promised to the family, but rather sent the [...]

New Maryland Law Requires Board Of Physicians To Create Physician Profiles Accessible To The Public

October 19, 2017

Effective October 1, 2017, the Maryland State Board of Physicians (“MBP”) is required to create and maintain a public practitioner profile for each licensed physician and provide appropriate and accessible links to the profiles from the Board’s website. In addition to specified discipl[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Surgeon Removed Large Portion Of Patient’s Pancreas, Instead Of Adrenal Gland

October 14, 2017

A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a surgeon who allegedly removed 40% of the plaintiff’s healthy pancreas instead of the cancerous tumor on her adrenal gland. The defendant surgeon told the 63-year-old woman’s family shortly after the surgery that he had removed [...]

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