Medical Malpractice Verdict Archives - Page 50 of 106

$4.7M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Check Central Line Placement

February 19, 2019

On January 31, 2019, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned a $4.7 million verdict in favor of a woman whose lower right leg was permanently damaged when medication was administered in the ICU through a central line that was misplaced in the emergency room. The emergency room doctor who placed [...]

$4.8M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed And Untreated Spinal Infection Leading To Paralysis

February 16, 2019

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife in excess of $4.8 million on January 25, 2019 after a two-week trial and three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. The jury awarded $183,673 per year for the next 18 years for the man’s medical expenses, $1.23 million for past a[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Finds No Error In Instructing Medical Malpractice Jury As To General Negligence

February 9, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it gave standard general instructions on negligence and foreseeability in addition[...]

$3.4M Virginia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Obese Patient Who Aspirated During Surgery

February 4, 2019

On January 23, 2019, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death case in the amount of $3.4 million against one of the defendant doctors. After two and a half weeks of trial, the jury awarded $385,451 for expense[...]

$11M New Mexico Rehab Facility Malpractice Verdict

January 27, 2019

After an eight-day jury trial and four hours of jury deliberations, a New Mexico malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiff on January 22, 2019 in the amount of $5 million in compensatory damages and $6 million in punitive damages. The defendant skilled nursing facility held itself out [...]

Missouri Supreme Court Affirms Nearly $29M Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 21, 2019

In its opinion issued on January 15, 2019, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) affirmed the $28,911,000 jury verdict in favor of the Missouri medical malpractice plaintiff but reversed the trial court’s determination of the interest rate to be applied to the po[...]

$14M Iowa Wrongful Birth Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 16, 2019

On January 8, 2019, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the wrongful birth plaintiffs in the amount of $14,504,790, which included $285,000 for the mother’s emotional distress from the date of the injury to the present and $1,346,938 for her future emotional distr[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict, Discusses Effect Of Empty-Chair Defendant

December 30, 2018

In its December 13, 2018 opinion, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) reinstated a medical malpractice verdict in favor of a hospital after discussing the effect of an empty-chair defendant (i.e., where a defendant physician who settled before trial was not present d[...]

New York Appellate Court Grants New Trial To Medical Malpractice Plaintiff, Stating Emergency Doctrine Did Not Apply

December 29, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department held in its Decision & Order dated December 12, 2018: “[u]nder the circumstances presented, we disagree with the Supreme Court’s determination to instruct the jury on the emergency doctrine. The em[...]

$13M Manhattan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Colorectal Surgeon

December 14, 2018

A Manhattan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant colorectal surgeon at the conclusion of trial in mid-November 2018, awarding the surviving family of a stay-at-home mother and wife to a police officer, who died as a result of medical negligence, a total of $13 million.[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Inadmissible Expert Testimony

December 11, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) affirmed a defense verdict in a Maryland medical malpractce case in an unreported opinion filed on December 7, 2018, despite the inadmissible testimony of a defense fact witness who was a physician at the hospital wher[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Failure To Ask Jury Panel The “Insurance Question”

December 7, 2018

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Three (“Missouri Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on November 20, 2018: “Because of the fundamental nature of the right to a fair and impartial jury, the trial court has no discretion to deny a party the right to as[...]

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