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$22.5M Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Settlement For 6-Week-Old’s Brain Damage

April 29, 2019

The Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund reportedly has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a Wisconsin medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a resident physician who was providing anesthesia services during surgery on a 6-week-old boy at UW Health’s American Family Chil[...]

$2.35M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delayed Diagnosis Of Aortic Aneurysm

April 8, 2019

On March 6, 2019, three defendant physicians agreed to settle a medical malpractice case in which they were alleged to have failed to timely diagnose and treat a hospital patient’s aortic aneurysm in the emergency department, which led to his death. The defendant emergency room attending physi[...]

$20.6M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Man Who Became Paralyzed Due To Hospital Medical Negligence

March 1, 2019

A now 64-year-old Illinois man has settled his Illinois medical malpractice case that alleged that he became paralyzed because the defendants failed to timely diagnose and treat his ruptured aneurysm. As a result of the misdiagnosis, the man unnecessarily became paralyzed, he had to have several toe[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Arbitrator Awards $140M Settlement To 255 Medical Malpractice Victims

February 23, 2019

A New York medical malpractice arbitrator has issued a $140 million settlement award to 255 New York medical malpractice victims of former New York orthopedist Spyros Panos. After the arbitrator’s award is approved by the court, the awards to individual New York medical malpractice plaintiffs [...]

Medication Error Leading To Veteran’s Death Results In $800,000 Settlement

January 3, 2019

The family of a 64-year-old veteran who had gone to a VA medical center in South Carolina complaining of nausea and vomiting and was given the wrong medication that led to his death on February 2, 2017 has settled the VA medical malpractice wrongful death claim for $800,000, which settlement was app[...]

$10M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Inmate Death

December 24, 2018

The family of an inmate who died in an Oregon jail in 2014 has settled their medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against the jail medical services provider, Corizon Health, Inc. (“Corizon”), the local sheriff, the Oregon county where the jail is located, and others, for $10 [...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Kidney Wrongfully Removed During Back Surgery

December 3, 2018

A Florida medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against a general surgeon participating in the plaintiff’s back surgery on April 29, 2016, for allegedly removing one of her kidneys because the surgeon wrongfully thought that it was cancerous. The plaintiff had met the defendant surgeon just be[...]

Texas Apppellate Court Affirms Nearly $12M Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Verdict Where Series Of Missteps Leads To Paraplegia

November 24, 2018

The Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on November 7, 2018, affirmed a Texas medical malpractice jury’s award of nearly $12 million for a man in his late 70s who entered the defendant Texas nursing home for treatment of a groi[...]

New York Appellate Court Discusses Alleged Bad Faith Failure To Settle Medical Malpractice Case

November 8, 2018

The State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Third Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum And Order dated October 25, 2018 that it was error for the trial court to enter summary judgment on behalf of the defendant medical malpractice insurance [...]

Arizona Supreme Court Allows Medical Malpractice Claim Against Hospital To Continue After Surgeon Settles

September 2, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Arizona (“Arizona Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on July 9, 2018 that a stipulated dismissal with prejudice of an agent-surgeon does not preclude a party from asserting a claim against the surgeon’s principal for its own independent negligen[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Disallows Award Of Attorney Fees In Medical Malpractice Case Subject To High-Low Agreement

August 18, 2018

In its opinion filed on July 19, 2018, the Supreme Court of New Jersey (“New Jersey Supreme Court”) affirmed that the New Jersey medical malpractice plaintiff was not entitled to an award of attorney fees in a successful medical malpractice lawsuit where the parties entered into a high-l[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Discusses Legal Malpractice Case Arising Out Of Medical Malpractice Settlement

July 18, 2018

The May 30, 2018 opinion of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appelate Court”) discussed the convoluted history of a legal malpractice case arising out of a Louisiana medical malpractice case that should serve as a warning to all medical malpractice lawyers[...]

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