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Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Mary Carter Agreements In Medical Malpractice Cases

May 11, 2026

Mary Carter Agreement The term “Mary Carter Agreement” applies to any agreement between the plaintiff and some (but less than all)defendants whereby the parties place limitations on the financial responsibility of the agreeing defendants, the amount of which is variable and usually in some inver[...]

$3.2M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Amputation Due To Misplaced Central Line

April 10, 2026

In June 2025, a Massachusetts medical malpractice claim was settled for $3.2 million for a man who required that his right leg be amputated because the medical staff at the hospital placed a central line in his right femoral artery instead of his right femoral vein. The severely developmentally disa[...]

$3.25M Massachusetts Birth Injury Wrongful Death Settlement

April 6, 2026

In July 2025, a Massachusetts medical malpractice birth injury wrongful death case was settled for $3.25 million in which the plaintiff alleged the wrongful death of her baby, who was born lifeless with Apgar scores of 0/0/0, due to the OB’s alleged negligence in failing to deliver her baby ea[...]

$1.475M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Newborn Who Suffered Permanent Leg Injury Due To Failure To Timely Diagnose And Treat Aortic Coarctation

March 9, 2026

One day after a full-term baby was successfully delivered at a medical center, the newborn was given routine screenings for congenital heart defects. Echocardiograms were subsequently ordered and performed to determine if the newborn had a congenital heart defect, such as aortic coarctation (narrowi[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Grants New Trial For Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Where Settling Defendants Not Dismissed Before Trial

February 4, 2026

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania stated in its non-precedential decision filed on December 15, 2025: “[T]he entitlement for settling defendants to remain as parties to an action in order to establish their status as joint tortfeasors, and then have a jury apportion liability among those part[...]

Texas Supreme Court Upholds Calculation Of Medical Malpractice Verdict Reduction For Settlement Credit

February 1, 2026

Robert Detrick and his wife sued a skilled nursing facility, claiming its nurses negligently failed to notify his doctors of a change in his condition. Detrick alleged that this failure led to a delay in diagnosing a compression of his spinal cord, resulting in his paralysis. Detrick also sued other[...]

$11M Rhode Island Medical Malpractice Settlement For Baby Who Suffered Brain Damage After Mother Suffered Cardiac Arrest During Labor

December 23, 2025

A 29-year-old woman who was pregnant with her first child was having an unremarkable labor and delivery until she suddenly had a drop in her blood pressure to 65/28 and a pulse in the 50s. She became unresponsive at 5:57 p.m. A rapid response team was called and an obstetrician, who had no prior inv[...]

$1M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Failure To Communicate HPV Test Results

December 20, 2025

In June 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case was settled for $1.15 million in which the plaintiff alleged that her doctor’s office failed to tell her the results of an HPV test that caused a delay in being diagnosed with cervical cancer and resulting in a poor prognosis for Stage IVB cerv[...]

$4M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed MRI Resulting In Paralysis

December 17, 2025

In September 2025, a Massachusetts woman settled her Massachusetts medical malpractice claim for $4 million for a spinal abscess resulting in paralysis due to a delay of 41 hours in performing an emergent MRI. Once she had the MRI, it confirmed that she had a spinal abscess compressing her spinal co[...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Misdiagnosed Nasopharyngeal Cancer

November 29, 2025

In July 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case involving the alleged failure of a neuroradiologist to diagnose the plaintiff’s nasopharyngeal cancer from an MRI in 2022, which delay allegedly led to the cancer proceeding from Stage Two (curable) to Stage Four (incurable) when the cancer was[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Release In Underlying Medical Malpractice Case Also Released Claims Of Fraudulent Inducement

October 10, 2025

On April 18, 2008, Sean and Amy West (the Wests) filed a medical malpractice action claiming damages due to the mismanagement of Amy West’s labor and delivery resulting in the rupture of her uterus and catastrophic brain injuries to her child, Juliana West. A jury trial commenced on January 8, 201[...]

Five Families Whose Babies Were Allegedly Intentionally Injured By A Nurse In A Hospital’s NICU Have Settled Their Civil Claims

August 15, 2025

It was reported in late June that HCA Healthcare, which operates Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, has settled with five families whose babies allegedly had their bones broken by neonatal ICU nurse Erin Strotman or experienced other forms of neglect while in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit [...]

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