Medical Malpractice Laws Archives - Page 8 of 143

Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Juror’s “Surrender” Note

March 15, 2026

Plaintiff’s Illinois medical malpractice complaint alleged that he was a type 1 diabetic and had previously received medical care and treatment from defendants related to his diabetes. On January 12, 2017, plaintiff went to defendant Quincy Physicians & Surgeons Clinic, S.C., doing business as[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Applies Common Knowledge Exception In Reviving Medical Malpractice Claims Involving Neck Surgery

March 14, 2026

In January 2022, Colleen Reilly underwent spinal surgery while in the care of Dr. Farbod Rastegar, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Atrium Medical Center. Reilly’s surgical procedure was an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (“ACDF”), which involved the placement of a cervical interbody imp[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case For New Trial On Some Issues

March 12, 2026

In its reported Opinion filed on February 27, 2026, the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled as follows: Medical Malpractice Expert Qualifications The medical malpractice plaintiffs brought medical negligence claims against a board-certified gastroenterologist who performed an endoscopy at an ambulator[...]

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Bill

March 10, 2026

On March 6, 2026, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law medical malpractice reform bill HB99, which she said “will help reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance and attract more physicians to New Mexico.” The bill creates tiered caps on punitive damages — $[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case Involving Dispute Over Production Of Medical Records

March 6, 2026

Roxanne Hawkins alleged that before initiating her Maryland medical malpractice action, she asked Calvert Health Medical Center (“Calvert Health”) to send her her husband, Ronald Hawkins’s, medical records. Once she obtained therecords, she retained Dr. Matthew Grayson Tuck and asked him to pr[...]

Federal Appellate Court Revives Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

March 3, 2026

Vernell Freeman, an Indiana prisoner, alleged that Nurse Kimberly Myers and Dr. Noe Marandet, medical providers at Miami Correctional Facility, violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court denied Freeman’s motion for summary judgment and granted the defenda[...]

Florida Judge Reduces $71M Medical Malpractice Verdict To $41M But Refuses To Apply Medicaid Cap

March 2, 2026

Florida Statute section 766.118(6) caps noneconomic damages awardable specifically to Medicaid patients to $200,000 per provider and $300,000 per incident when that treatment has been determined by a jury to be negligent. A judge of the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit for the State [...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds No Error In Refusing Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Request For Medical Records Impoundment

March 1, 2026

Uniform Rules on Impoundment Procedure (2015) (URIP) The Uniform Rules on Impoundment Procedure (URIP) govern impoundment of otherwise public case records that are filed in civil and criminal proceedings in each Department of the Trial Court. Case records are presumed to be open to the public, unles[...]

Federal District Court Dismisses EMTALA Claim

February 28, 2026

Plaintiff Todd Jeude filed an action under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) and state law, alleging Defendants negligently discharged him from the hospital after treating him for injuries sustained in amotorcycle accident. He named as Defendants SSM St. Clare Hospital, K[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses MOLST Verdict

February 26, 2026

Plaintiff commenced a medical malpractice action arising from an incident in which defendant’s employees performed chest compressions on plaintiff’s decedent after he became unresponsive shortly after he presented to the emergency department of defendant’s hospital with complaints of abdominal[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms Failure To Timely Disclose Expert Dooms Medical Malpractice Case

February 25, 2026

To make a claim of medical malpractice in Missouri, a plaintiff must prove the defendant failed to meet a required medical standard of care, their acts or omissions were performed negligently, and those acts or omissions caused her injuries. In a case decided by a Missouri appellate court on Decembe[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Applies Continuing Treatment Rule In Dismissing Medical Malpractice Case

February 24, 2026

On June 30, 2021, Renee Jauregui (“Jauregui”) filed a complaint asserting a medical malpractice claim against Dr. Cothran. In her complaint, Jauregui claimed that she had seen Dr. Cothran, an OB/GYN, for several pregnancy related visits between May and October 2018. Jauregui alleged that, during[...]

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