Medical Malpractice Verdict Archives - Page 71 of 106

$4.7M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome

August 1, 2016

On July 15, 2016, an Indiana judge awarded an Indiana couple a total of $4.7 million following a bench trial in April 2016, finding that the husband’s treating physician breached the standard of care by failing to diagnose the husband’s infection that resulted in cauda equina syndrome th[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Clears Defendant Doctors For Hospital Patient’s Death

July 31, 2016

On July 21, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant pulmonologist and the defendant ENT, finding that they had not breached the standard of care in their treatment of a 56-year-old man who they had examined in the hospital only hours before he suffered[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Insurer Agrees To Pay Judgment In Excess Of Policy Limits

July 28, 2016

A Georgia primary care physician and his medical clinic had a total medical malpractice insurance policy limit in the amount of $2 million but their medical malpractice insurance company has agreed to pay in full the $4.9 million medical malpractice judgment against them (which includes $200,000 for[...]

$17.6M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Opioid Abuse

July 22, 2016

After a one-week medical malpractice jury trial in St. Louis, Missouri that ended in a verdict for the plaintiffs on June 28, 2016, the jury awarded the plaintiff husband $1.4 million and the plaintiff wife $1.2 million against a physician and his employer, finding that they were negligent in prescr[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Win

July 15, 2016

In its opinion filed on June 30, 2016, the New York Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) reversed a New York medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff, finding that the trial judge had erroneously admitted evidence concerning the defendant’s negligent tre[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Interplay Between Medical Malpractice Claims And Wrongful Death Claims, And Releases

July 13, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 12, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held that Maryland’s wrongful death statute creates a new and independent cause of action for a decedent’s beneficiaries, and thus, a judgment on th[...]

$53M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

July 12, 2016

On June 29, 2016, a 12-person Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $53 million for the severe and permanent brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy suffered by a newborn who was delivered at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 200[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Jury Finds Radiologist Negligent But His Negligence Did Not Contribute To Patient’s Death

July 8, 2016

On June 24, 2016, a New Mexico medical malpractice jury determined that the defendant radiologist breached the standard of care when he failed to recognize a cancerous tumor on a patient’s spine but the jury also determined that the radiologist’s negligence was not the cause of the 44-ye[...]

$4.65M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Veterinarian

July 1, 2016

On June 21, 2016, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $4.65 million against a primary care physician, a gastroenterologist, and the defendant hospital for the death of a 63-year-old veterinarian who died because of the defendants’ failure to timely and pro[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Smoker’s Lung Cancer Death

June 24, 2016

On June 8, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant doctor, after only a short period of jury deliberations following a medical malpractice trial that lasted a little over one week, finding that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant [...]

$1.3M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Newborn Following Heart Surgery

June 20, 2016

On June 7, 2016, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.3 million, by a vote of eleven to one after six days of trial, finding that the defendant anesthesiologist was negligent when she administered too much calcium to a newborn fol[...]

Oregon Supreme Court Overturns $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict, Applies $3M Cap

June 17, 2016

In its one-hundred-forty-one page decision filed on May 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Oregon Supreme Court”) overturned the $12 million medical malpractice verdict reached by an Oregon medical malpractice jury against the State of Oregon and its employees, and inst[...]

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