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Bill Introduced In Maryland House of Delegates To Repeal Cap On Noneconomic Damages

January 23, 2025

On January 8, 2025, House Bill 113 was introduced and read for the first time, which if passed by the Maryland Legislature and signed into law by the Maryland Governor, would repeal Maryland’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases and other personal injury cases. The current [...]

$7.25M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Patient Taken Off Blood Thinner

December 19, 2024

In early December 2024, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7.25 million for the death of a 23-year-old man due to being taken off his blood thinner by his hematologist, who advised him to take a baby aspirin instead. The man died in December 2021 in his bedroo[...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

$9.2M Georgia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Upheld

October 23, 2024

Allen Turner died due to complications from a surgery to remove a polyp from his intestines. Following his death, his daughter, Norkesia Turner, sued Dr. William Thompson; Dr. Heather Nolan; and their employer, the Medical Center of Central Georgia, for medical malpractice and wrongful death. Follo[...]

Maryland Supreme Court Applies Lex Loci Delicti Doctrine In Finding That Virginia’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

October 7, 2024

In its Opinion filed on July 31, 2024, the Supreme Court of Maryland held that the Appellate Court of Maryland properly applied Virginia substantive law in accordance with the doctrine of lex loci delicti. Pursuant to that doctrine, which requires the application of the substantive law of the state [...]

$8.5M Maryland Nursing Home Malpractice Verdict

August 25, 2024

On August 19, 2024, a Prince George’s County, Maryland nursing home malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant nursing home in the amount of $8.5 million ($8 million for the Estate and $500,000 for the decedent’s daughter). Pursuiant to Maryland’s cap on noneconomi[...]

$1.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Gallbladder Surgery

August 15, 2024

Victoria Nelson had gallbladder removal surgery at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in July 2019 after she went to the emergency room complaining of severe upper abdominal pain. She was not advised by her surgeon after the surgery that a remnant of her gallbladder was left in her or that the surgeon ha[...]

Colorado Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Bill Into Law

August 2, 2024

On June 3, 2024, Colorado’s Governor signed into law HB24-1472 entitled “Raise Damage Limit Tort Actions” that was described as “Concerning matters related to certain tort actions, and, in connection therewith, increasing the cap on noneconomic damages, allowing siblings to b[...]

Colorado Supreme Court Applies Collateral Source Statute’s Contract Exception In Medical Malpractice Case

July 2, 2024

In August 2015, Daniel B. Scholle underwent elective back surgery at HCA-HealthONE, LLC, d/b/a Sky Ridge Medical Center (“the Hospital”). Drs. Ehrichs and Rauzzino performed Scholle’s surgery. During surgery, Scholle’s iliac vein was severed, resulting in extensive bleeding, and causing Scho[...]

New Mexico Appellate Court Upholds Cap On Damages In Medical Malpractice Case

July 1, 2024

Background Facts Philip Eslin underwent what he thought was going to be a biopsy performed by Defendant Paul Levy, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon employed by Defendant New Mexico Heart Institute. Despite receiving negative pathology results from the biopsy, Defendant Levy performed an extensive surg[...]

$4.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Lost Kidney After Surgery

June 12, 2024

On March 21, 2024, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $4.5 million in favor of a woman who was 30-years-old when she underwent surgery on September 5, 2019 to remove her uterus to address her severe pain due to endometriosis. During the surgery, the surgeons m[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds Hospitals Do Not Owe A Fiduciary Duty To Their Patients In Connection With Medical Treatment

May 30, 2024

LaQuinta Whitley-Murray passed away at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center during a sickle cell crisis. Respondent, on behalf of LaQuinta’s estate and heirs, filed a negligence action against appellant Valley Health Systems, which operates Centennial Hills. A Nevada medical malpractice wr[...]

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