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Denver Hospital Settles 24-Year-Old’s Medical Malpractice Death Case For The Maximum: $387,000

May 30, 2022

It was recently announced that Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado (collectively, “Denver Health”) settled a family’s Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death case arising from the unnecessary death of a 24-year-old snowboarder for $387,000, which was the[...]

It’s Official: California Governor Signs Into Law Medical Malpractice Reforms That Benefit Victims

May 26, 2022

On May 23, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 35, legislation to modernize the system for awarding damages in medical malpractice cases in California. The legislation was supported by consumer groups, trial attorneys, health care insurers, and health care providers, marking the end to [...]

$5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 25, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury in Howard County, Maryland has awarded the plaintiff in excess of $5 million for permanent damage sustained to her pancreas as a result of an allegedly botched diagnostic procedure that the defendant gastroenterologist had performed in 2014. The Maryland medical m[...]

Medical Malpractice Caps Result In 16% Increase In Adverse Events

May 11, 2022

A policy paper published in May 2022 entitled The California Malpractice Cap on Noneconomic Losses: Unintended Consequences and Arguments for Reform stated, “the introduction of caps on noneconomic damages are associated with a 16% increase in adverse events. Given this, it is likely that repe[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

Agreement Reached To Increase California’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

April 29, 2022

Facing a ballot initiative this November that if approved by the voters would increase California’s noneconomic damages cap in medical malpractice cases in the current amount of $250,000 that has remained at that level for almost fifty years, it was announced earlier this week that a new conse[...]

Medical Malpractice Insurers Are Top Donors Opposing California’s Fairness For Injured Patients Act

March 12, 2022

The California Changes to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022. The ballot initiative would require an annual adjustment of the cap based on inflation and would allow judges and juries to award damag[...]

Nebraska Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $26.1M Against Children’s Hospital For Failing To Treat Infant’s Seizures

March 5, 2022

On November 24, 2021, a Nebraska medical malpractice jury awarded $26.1 million against Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in a medical malpractice case that alleged that it failed to properly treat a child who suffered seizures in January 2017 after she fell while standing on a toy at a day[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Doctors’ Failure To Advise Patient She Had A Brain Tumor

February 28, 2022

A West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit filed on January 21, 2022 in Winchester Circuit Court seeks $3.5 million in compensatory damages from four doctors in West Virginia who allegedly failed to advise her that her MRI brain scan at Winchester Medical Center (WMC) in 2013 showed a brain lesion.[...]

California Supreme Court Rules $250K MICRA Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Physician Assistants

February 26, 2022

In its opinion dated February 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of California (“California Supreme Court”) held that California’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases “applies to a physician assistant who has a legally enforceable agency relationship wit[...]

Maryland Pharmacists Seek Golden Ticket

February 23, 2022

Proposed legislation in Maryland seeks to add “pharmacists” to the definition of “health care provider” so that their financial interests are protected at the expense of the most seriously harmed victims of their negligence, and so that they also enjoy the significant procedu[...]

Is $250,000 Fair Or Just Compensation For A Child’s Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Due To Medical Negligence?

February 22, 2022

California law limits noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000. That amount has not been increased since California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act {“MICRA”) was signed into law in 1975. Specifically, Civil Code Section 3333.2 limits recovery for noneconomi[...]

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