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Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Disposition For Paramedics For Gross Negligence Claim Under EMSA

December 11, 2025

Plaintiff sued defendants, alleging that they failed to provide appropriate emergency medical services to plaintiff’s decedent, Dale Wehner. Defendants moved for summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(7) and (10), arguing,among other things, that plaintiff’s claims were barred by the statutory i[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants In Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress Medical Malpractice Case

December 10, 2025

Ian Hall and Morgan Thomas, a married couple, brought claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress against Thomas’s treating physician based on her use of allegedly extreme and outrageous terminology when consulting with them following the [...]

Maryland Federal Judge Denies Request By Defense For Ex Parte Communications With Plaintiff’s Treating Physicians In Medical Malpractice Case

December 7, 2025

For the Court to issue a disclosure order permitting ex parte communications with persons disclosing protected information under HIPAA, the party moving for such an order must demonstrate a compelling reason why traditional discovery methods are insufficient. Furthermore, mere desires to level the p[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Discusses Naming “Additional” Defendants In Medical Malpractice Cases

December 5, 2025

In Ohio, a medical malpractice plaintiff must commence a medical-claim action within one year after the cause of action accrued. R.C. 2305.113(A). Under Civ.R. 3(A), “[a] civil action is commenced by filing a complaint with the court, if service is obtained within one year from such filing upon a [...]

New York’s Highest Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Recovery For Mother’s Emotional Damages For Baby Born Alive But Who Died Shortly After Birth Due To Medical Negligence During Delivery

December 4, 2025

Plaintiff Veronica SanMiguel was admitted to defendant St. Barnabas Hospital (St. Barnabas) on July 1, 2012, after she did not go into labor by her due date. She came under the care of defendant Dr. Meryl Y. Grimaldi who, along with St. Barnabas’s nursing staff, induced labor. On the morning of Ju[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendant In Lack Of Informed Consent Case

December 2, 2025

The plaintiffs, Rohini Meka and her husband, Suresh Chirumamilla, filed suit on September 18, 2020, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. They named as defendants Dr. Hani Haddad, Valley Women’s Health Group, LLC, and Jane/John Doe, asserting various Massachuse[...]

North Carolina Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Interlocutory Order Not Appealable Until End Of Case

December 1, 2025

On February 16, 2022, Doris Land and her husband filed their North Carolina medical malpractice action against Dr.Whitley, Physicians East, P.A. d/b/a Greenville OB/GYN, and Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Vidant Medical Center and d/b/a Vidant SurgiCenter, for negligence and gross neglige[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Doctor Not Entitled To Summary Judgment In HIE Malpractice Case

November 30, 2025

In its July 25, 2025 Memorandum and Opinion, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Circuit, affirmed the trial court’s denial of the medical malpractice defendant’s motion for summary judgment, stating: Plaintiff commenced this medical malpractice act[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Improper Opening Statement Requires New Trial

November 26, 2025

On April 6, 2021, 72-year-old Ronald Lewis underwent open vascular surgery at Reading Hospital for the purpose of repairing abdominal aortic aneurisms. Dr. Robert Q. Luo performed the surgery, and soon after it was completed,Lewis reported severe pain, swelling, and discoloration in his left foot th[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defendant Liable For 100% Of Verdict Despite Jury Finding Him 60% At Fault

November 24, 2025

After a New Jersey medical malpractice trial in which a jury found defendant Dr. Joseph Popovich (Popovich) liable for sixty percent of plaintiffs’ damages, he moved to mold the verdict to reduce his liability consistent with Burt v. W.Jersey Health Sys., 339 N.J. Super. 296 (App. Div. 2011). [...]

Federal Appellate Court States Certain Protections “Do Not Stop At The Prison Gates”

November 23, 2025

“The protections afforded by the Eighth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 etseq., and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., do not stop at the prison gates. So when an inmate, whether counseled or pro se, claims that prison officials igno[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Orders New Trial For Refusal To Instruct Medical Malpractice Jury As To Superseding Cause In Cesarean Delivery Without Anesthesia Case

November 22, 2025

Elizabeth Bandy was admitted to Reston Hospital Center on August 13, 2021, for an induced delivery of her first child. Her regular physician recommended they induce her labor because she was past her due date. On Sunday, August 15, 2021, as Ms. Bandy’s labor progressed, Dr. Mirza Baig, the only an[...]

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