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$4.5M Connecticut Dental Malpractice Verdict For Botched Root Canal

June 14, 2015

A Connecticut dental malpractice jury has awarded $4.5 million to a 42-year-old woman who had a root canal procedure performed on her by the defendant dentist on March 15, 2011 that left her with pain at all times: pain when she is eating, pain while she is sleeping, and pain when she is doing noth[...]

$600K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Untreated Surgical Complications

June 13, 2015

When the 72-year-old wife, mother of six, and grandmother went in for surgery on February 23, 2010 for a subtotal colectomy with an ileorectal anastomosis to treat her five-year history of diverticulosis, neither she nor her family could have imagined that she would die sixteen days later from surg[...]

California College Athlete Awarded $1M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 10, 2015

On June 2, 2015, a now 25-year-old former college athlete in California received a verdict in the amount of $1,045,000 that included $285,000 for her past lost earnings, $730,000 for her future loss of earnings claim, and $30,000 for her past and future pain and suffering claim. After the Californi[...]

Connecticut Court Grants Additur In Medical Malpractice Case

June 5, 2015

The Connecticut Superior Court Judicial District of Hartford has granted the plaintiff’s motion for additur in a Connecticut medical malpractice case, adding $20,861.57 in economic damages to the jury’s verdict, because the jury failed to award the stipulated costs of medical care and f[...]

$2.8M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Perforated Colon During Abdominal Surgery

May 26, 2015

A 73-year-old man won his Florida medical malpractice lawsuit filed against the defendant hospital for the alleged negligence of a surgeon who allegedly perforated his colon during abdominal surgery and failed to discover the perforation and/or to timely respond to his symptoms that indicated a p[...]

$6.2M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 2-Year-Old

May 25, 2015

On May 20, 2015, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned a plaintiffs’ verdict in the amount of $6.2 million, after almost four weeks of trial, against the defendants pediatric surgeons, hospital, and health care systems arising out of the death of a two-year-old child in 2009. The[...]

Florida Supreme Court: Medical Malpractice Cap Does Not Apply Retroactively

May 24, 2015

In its decision dated May 21, 2015, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that Florida’s cap on noneconomic damages in Florida medical malpractice cases does not apply to a cause of action that arose before the cap became effective on September 15, 2013. The[...]

$7.65M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Cancer Diagnosis

May 22, 2015

On May 19, 2015, a Maine medical malpractice jury found in favor of the husband and wife plaintiffs and against the defendant hospital, determining that the 63-year-old wife was entitled to $5.65 million in damages for her cancer misdiagnosis (the failure to timely diagnose cervical cancer) and th[...]

$23M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

May 20, 2015

On April 24, 2015, after a three-week trial, a Florida medical malpractice jury in Charlotte County awarded the plaintiff $23 million for the severe and permanent brain injury suffered by her newborn baby girl, who was born extremely premature. The child suffered cerebral palsy as a result of her b[...]

$430,000 New York Dental Malpractice Verdict Set Aside On Appeal

May 19, 2015

By its decision rendered on May 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) reversed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $430,000 in favor of a dental patient in a New York dental malpractice case, finding tha[...]

$21M Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrong Patient Brain Surgery

May 16, 2015

On May 6, 2015, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded $21 million for the unnecessary brain surgery performed on an 81-year-old woman who was scheduled for jaw surgery but had brain surgery because of a mix-up regarding her radiology films. The woman lived for only 60 days after the wrong surg[...]

$35.4M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman Who Suffered Stroke Shortly After Giving Birth

May 12, 2015

On May 7, 2015, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the 35-year-old plaintiff in the amount of $35.4 million. The plaintiff had suffered a massive stroke within hours after giving birth in 2008, allegedly as a result of the medical negligence of the defendants. [...]

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