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Florida Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Not Retroactive

December 28, 2011

When states enact so-called “medical malpractice reforms” (also known as “tort reforms”) such as caps (limits) on non-economic damages (such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and disfigurement) that victims of medical malpractice may recover despite a jury’s determ[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of New Mother

December 27, 2011

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury recently found in favor of the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case alleging that medical negligence led to the death of a 42-year-old mother who had just given birth to twins. The mother had been discharged from the hospital with pneumonia after giving b[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Discarded Newborn

December 26, 2011

In June, 2009, an obstetrician (OB) in Tennessee delivered a baby with an irregular heart rate who was gasping for breath but moving his extremities immediately after birth. The OB decided without consulting with anyone that the newborn would not survive and thereafter deposited the newborn’[...]

Utah Medical Malpractice Verdict For Litttle Girl Who Cannot Walk Or Talk

December 25, 2011

Back in 2000, a Utah medical malpractice jury awarded substantial damages in the largest medical malpractice verdict in Utah to date after a 10-day trial and three and a half hours of deliberations. The jury awarded a then 8-year-old girl $9.7 million in compensation ($4,711,100 for past and fut[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Deadly Delayed Breast Cancer Diagnosis

December 24, 2011

In August, 2003, a 25-year-old Tennessee woman was examined by her OB/GYN who found a pea-sized lump in her left breast that the OB/GYN advised the woman was probably a cyst or fatty deposit. No further investigation or testing was done at that time. About eighteen months later, during the woman[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Places High Value On Life

December 22, 2011

An 87-year-old woman suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease died as a result of dehydration and renal failure in a West Virginia nursing home, allegedly due to medical malpractice at the negligent nursing home where she had been a patient for only 20 days. The medical malpractice l[...]

Nursing Medical Malpractice In Louisiana

December 19, 2011

Louisiana’s Nursing Standard Of Care Nurses as well as other health care providers in Louisiana are subject to the same standard of care as physicians in Louisiana — a nurse is required to exercise the degree of skill ordinarily employed, under similar circumstances, by the members of th[...]

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