Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman’s Blindness
January 25, 2012
On January 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of a 67-year-old Maryland woman who suffered near-total blindness allegedly as a result of medical malpractice by her ophthalmologist. The verdict will be reduced to $620,000 due to the [...]
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$178 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict
January 24, 2012
On Friday, January 20, 2012, a Florida jury awarded $168 million in compensatory damages in a medical malpractice case; on Monday, January 23, 2012, the same medical malpractice jury awarded another $10 million in punitive damages. The medical malpractice claim involved an obese deputy’s lapar[...]
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Mississippi Medical Malpractice Judgment For Botched Abortion
January 21, 2012
Earlier this month, a Mississippi judge entered a default judgment in a medical malpractice case in favor of a woman and her husband for the alleged injuries sustained by the woman when the doctor performing her abortion suddenly stopped the procedure and sent her home, despite the woman h[...]
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Did Utah Medical Malpractice Lead to Murder?
January 15, 2012
The conservator for the two very young sons of a man who shot and killed his wife (the sons’ mother) in a church parking lot filed a medical malpractice case against the nurse practitioner and others who prescribed multiple anti-depressants and mood-altering drugs to the man that the medical [...]
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New Hampshire Midwife Settles Medical Malpractice Claims
January 11, 2012
A Concord, New Hampshire midwife, who had voluntarily given up her New Hampshire state license in June, 2010, settled a medical malpractice case filed against her that alleged that her medical negligence caused a newborn to suffer permanent and severe brain injuries that resulted in cerebral pal[...]
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