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$2.6M Nevada Nursing Home Fall Verdict

May 28, 2024

On March 11, 2024, a Nevada nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in an amount in excess of $2.6 million for a 66-year-old man who fell in a nursing home five times during the just over two-week period he was a resident of the defendant nursing home. Kurtis Roberts was admitted to Silver[...]

$8.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Permanent Bowel Injury Due To Delay In Treatment

April 30, 2024

In 2016, the plaintiff had surgery on her lower back. That night, her daughter found her unconscious on the floor of her bathroom. The plaintiff was transported by ambulance to the emergency room, where she complained of severe abdominal pain. As her condition continued to worsen, she was sent to th[...]

$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[...]

$97M Iowa Birth Injury Malpractice Verdict Leads To Bad Faith Lawsuits Against Defendant Clinic’s Insurer

April 11, 2024

After an Iowa birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its record-setting $97 million verdict against an Iowa medical clinic that led to the Iowa legislature imposing a cap on damages in medical malpractice cases, both the clinic and the Plaintiffs in the birth injury medical malpractice case [...]

$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[...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal Despite Defense Request For Mistrial

January 10, 2024

Background Facts In March 2019, Dr. Colleen Connor, an employee of Mid-Atlantic Women’s Care, P.L.C., performed a total abdominalhysterectomy on Gloria Kontaratos, with assistance from Dr. Seifeldin Sadek, a medical resident. At approximately 11:00 a.m. on the day following surgery, Kontaratos rep[...]

$40 Million Colorado Medical Malpractice Judgment Affirmed

November 30, 2023

The Gressers, individually and on behalf of their minor daughter, C.G., asserted a medical negligence claim against Banner Health premised on the alleged failure of its nursing staff to timely recognize and report to C.G.’s treating physicians that C.G. was exhibiting signs of sepsis. The Colorado[...]

DoD’s Proposed Changes To Service Member Medical Malpractice Claims Regulations

October 27, 2023

On October 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense published in the Federal Register proposed updates to its regulations on how Service members can file claims for medical malpractice that may have occurred in military medical treatment facilities. Effective immediately, the Department increased th[...]

$3M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Treatment Of Knee Infection Following Surgery

September 13, 2023

$3M For Delayed Treatment Of Knee Infection Following Surgery: On February 16, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million after about five hours of deliberations for a 63-year-old man who suffered osteomyelitis that led to permanent knee fusion because[...]

$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 Holds Baby, Mother Entitled To Separate Noneconomic Damages Cap In California Birth Injury Case

July 27, 2023

Court Holds Baby, Mother Entitled To Separate Noneconomic Damages Cap In California Birth Injury Case: At the time a federal medical malpractice birth injury case arose, section 3333.2(a) of the California Civil Code provided that “[i]n any action for injury against a health care provider based on[...]

Changes To Maine’s Wrongful Death Law

July 13, 2023

Changes To Maine’s Wrongful Death Law: Maine’s Governor Janet Mills allowed a new law to take effect on July 6, 2023 without her signature that changes Maine’s Wrongful Death Statute by increasing the cap on damages in accordance with the annual inflation rate and expanding the sta[...]

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