Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Archives - Page 5 of 17

New Mexico Governor Signs Into Law Medical Malpractice Reforms Extending Protections To Independent Outpatient Health Care Facilities

April 12, 2023

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Law: New Mexico Senate Bill 523, which was signed into law on April 7, 2023, amends the New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act to cap claims for independent healthcare facilities, such as urgent care, ambulatory surgical centers, and free-standing eme[...]

$34 Million Maryland Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

April 4, 2023

$34 Million Birth Injury Verdict: On March 28, 2023, a Baltimore County Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of nearly $34 million for the catastrophic injuries suffered by a baby who allegedly was unnecessarily delivered at 23 weeks of preg[...]

$13.5M Idaho Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Stroke In Hospital ER

April 2, 2023

$13.5M Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Stroke: Earlier this year, an Ada County, Idaho medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $13.5 million (the second largest Idaho medical malpractice jury verdict) against Emergency Medicine of Idaho LLC and one of its physicians for the allege[...]

$5.5M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Cancer By Pathologist

March 21, 2023

$5.5M Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis: On March 17, 2023, a California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,461,993 in favor of the 50-year-old emergency room nurse and mother of a severely disabled daughter, who alleged that the defendant pathologist negligently failed [...]

Iowa Enacts New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law

February 23, 2023

New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law: On February 16, 2023, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law House File 161, which limits noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 unless the injuries are substantial or permanent, in which case the limits are now $1 million or $2 mi[...]

$770,000 Prison Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed By Maryland Appellate Court

February 18, 2023

$770,000 Prison Malpractice Verdict Affirmed By Court: In its unreported opinion dated February 14, 2023, the Appellate Court of Maryland affirmed a prison medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $770,00 in which only noneconomic damages (pain and suffering) were sought. Underlying Facts C[...]

$10.2M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital

February 15, 2023

$10.2M Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital: On December 9, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs (wife and husband) in the amount of $10.2 million against a hospital for the delay in proper medical treatment that led to the wife suffering permanent p[...]

$13.3M Maryland Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 4, 2022

$13.3M Birth Injury Verdict: A Maryland medical malpractice birth injury jury in a conservative Maryland jurisdiction (Harford County, Maryland) returned its verdict in favor of a now 18-year-old who suffered serious bleeding in his brain during his delivery in 2004. The Maryland medical malpractice[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

California Hospital Found To Have Overdosed Kidney Donor With Opioid And Failed To Monitor

July 15, 2022

A California court found UCFS liable for the opioid overdose death of a kidney donor patient while he was in the hospital following transplant surgery, concluding “based upon the evidence presented that it is more likely than not that the Regents (of University of California) were negligent in[...]

$2.4 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Breast Cancer Treatment

June 30, 2022

On June 27, 2022, a Circuit Court for Baltimore County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.4 million ($143,305.96 for past medical expenses and $2,256,694.04 in non-economic damages, which will be reduced pursuant to Maryland’s cap on non[...]

$25.4 Million Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Anoxic Brain Injury At Birth

June 21, 2022

A medical malpractice jury in Missouri awarded $25.4 million against a Kansas City, Missouri doctor for her alleged medical negligence that led to a baby suffering permanent brain damage due to the lack of oxygen at birth. The jury’s verdict will be reduced to approximately $20.7 million due t[...]

$9.9M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Colon Cancer Leading To Death

June 9, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiff in a trial that concluded in May 2022 in a case of medical negligence filed against a primary care practice that allegedly failed to diagnose a patient’s colon cancer over a period of five years despite continuing compl[...]

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