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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Allows Orthopedic Surgeon To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case Against Podiatrist

April 15, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 30, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s dismissal of a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case filed against a podiatrist, holding that the plaintiff’s orthopedic expert was qualified to testify a[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Surgical Center After Patient’s Death

March 20, 2016

A 29-year-old woman who was undergoing elective sinus surgery at a free-standing surgical center in Connecticut died after her vital signs dangerously dropped and an ambulance was not called for up to 29 minutes, resulting in the woman’s death, according to the Connecticut medical malpractice [...]

Study Of Medical Malpractice Closed Claims For Hospitalists

March 14, 2016

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, recently released its analysis of 464 medical malpractice claims against hospitalists that the insurer closed from 2007 through 2014. The study included all claims and medical malpractice laws[...]

Quest Diagnostics Sued For Alleged Pathology Malpractice In Death Of Basketball Icon

March 1, 2016

On January 15, 2016, a Florida basketball icon died from advanced oral cancer that his widow alleges in her Florida medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed on February 15, 2016, was avoidable had a Quest Diagnostics pathologist properly read a biopsy slide in 2011 that an indepe[...]

Surgery Performed On Wrong Baby

February 11, 2016

A Tennessee couple are living through a nightmare situation after having given birth to a healthy baby boy in a Tennessee hospital. While in the hospital nursery, shortly after birth, the baby was mistaken for another newborn in the hospital nursery and was removed from the nursery for a frenoto[...]

Methodology Of Recent Medical Malpractice Study Questioned

February 2, 2016

We discussed in our January 28, 2016 blog posting that a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on January 28, 2016 reported that 1% of physicians were responsible for 32% of the paid medical malpractice claims in the United States over the ten-year period that was analyzed by the [...]

New Study: 1% Of Physicians Are Responsible for 32% Of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims

January 28, 2016

A study published in today’s The New England Journal of Medicine reported that 1% of physicians were responsible for 32% of the paid medical malpractice claims in the United States over the ten-year period that was analyzed by the researchers. The authors’ reason for undertaking their a[...]

Oregon Appellate Court Recognizes Parents’ Wrongful Birth Claim

January 22, 2016

In its decision filed on December 30, 2015, the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s dismissing the wrongful birth claim of the parents of a boy born with muscular dystrophy, holding that the trial court erred in dismissing the pare[...]

Florida Plastic Surgeon Sued By Three Former Breast Implant Patients

January 21, 2016

A Jacksonville, Florida plastic surgeon and his medical practice have been sued by three former breast augmentation patients, within a period of four days in October 2015, alleging that the plastic surgeon was negligent in performing their multiple breast implant surgeries. In each of the cases, th[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendant

January 16, 2016

In its decision filed on January 15, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendant, noting “that medical malpractice cases are rarely appropriate for disposal by sum[...]

Summary Judgment For Defendant In Maryland Medical Malpractice Case Upheld

December 20, 2015

In its unreported decision filed on December 3, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appeals Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, upheld the trial court granting summary judgment to the defendant anesthesiologist in a Maryland medical malpractice and wrong[...]

Claim Against Pennsylvania Hospital For NTM Infection Linked To Heart Bypass Machines With Heater-Cooler Devices

December 16, 2015

On November 30, 2015, a husband and wife filed a notice of medical negligence claim against a Pennsylvania hospital regarding the husband’s open heart surgery in November 2013 that allegedly resulted in him contracting a very serious bacterial infection due to an allegedly unclean device [...]

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