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California Medical Association Responds To Efforts To Lift Caps On Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

February 9, 2022

Since 1975, California’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases has remained at $250,000. What that means is that the most egregiously and seriously injured victims of medical malpractice in California will not receive compensation in excess of $250,000 for their pain and suff[...]

Bill Introduced In Wisconsin Would Increase Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases To $3M

February 5, 2022

On January 28, 2022, 2021 Assembly Bill 924 was introduced in Wisconsin “to amend 655.017, 893.55 (4) (b) and 893.55 (4) (d) 1.; and to repeal and recreate 893.55 (1d) of the statutes; relating to: recovery of noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases” in order to “increase[[...]

Today’s 4,000th Consecutive Daily Blog (medicalmalpracticelawyers.com)

January 31, 2022

Today’s blog is our 4,000th consecutive daily blog. It is hard to believe that we have been posting daily blogs on this website for 4,000 days straight. The more we post blogs, the more we realize that medical malpractice in the United States remains a national tragedy, effecting not only the [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawyers, Hospitals Argue Over Maryland Medical Malpractice Data And Tort Reforms

January 23, 2022

The Chairmen of the Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and House Appropriations Committee’s “Report on the Fiscal 2021 State Operating Budget (SB0190) and the State Capital Budget (SB0191) and Related Recommendations” required the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to fu[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms $4M Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 19, 2022

In its opinion issued on December 16, 2021, the Supreme Court of Mississippi affirmed a $4 million birth injury medical malpractice verdict, finding that the denial of the defendants’ post-trial motion for judgment not withstanding the verdict was proper and that the trial judge had improperly[...]

Denver Hospital Faces Lawsuit After Internal Bleeding Death Of 24-Year-Old Patient Shortly After Discharge

October 27, 2021

The family of a 24-year-old snowboarder has provided notice that they intend to file a Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Health Medical Center for the death of their family member from internal bleeding shortly after he was discharged from the hospital following a 12[...]

$1.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn

September 30, 2021

On September 24, 2021, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded the parents of a stillborn child $1.5 million after five days of trial and two days of jury deliberations. The portion of the Maryland birth injury jury’s verdict for noneconomic damages will be reduced to $943,750, pursuant to[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 25, 2021

The Supreme Court of Missouri, in its opinion issued on July 22, 2021, upheld Missouri’s cap on nonecnomic damages in Missouri medical malpractice cases, stating, “Because a medical negligence action is a statutorily created cause of action, the General Assembly had the legislative autho[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Overturns $229 Million Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

February 6, 2021

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in it unpublished opinion dated February 1, 2021, overturned a Maryland medical malpractice jury’s award of $229,640,000 in a birth injury medical malpractice case. The jury had awarded $3,620,000 for past medic[...]

Virginia Senate Bill Would Eliminate Current Limitations On Medical Malpractice Damages

January 15, 2021

On January 13, 2021, Senate Bill 1107 was offered that is entitled “Limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions,” which would eliminate the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Provide Intervening/Superseding Cause Instruction

December 12, 2020

The Supreme Court of Mississippi in its opinion dated November 19, 2020 held: “Both Dr. Ilercil and Williams presented evidence that Nurse Howard was negligent by failing to contact Dr. Ilercil after she observed Williams’s rapidly declining condition, the signs of which Dr. Ilercil had spec[...]

Virgin Islands Court Upholds Damages Cap In Medical Malpractice Cases

November 23, 2020

The Superior Court of the Virgin Islands Division of St. Thomas and St John, in its Memorandum Opinion dated October 19, 2020, held in a Virgin Islands medical malpractice case: “The MMA’s [the Virgin Islands Medical Malpractice Act] $250,000 cap on total damages represents a legislative[...]

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