$5.7M California Transvaginal Mesh Verdict Against Ethicon
March 7, 2015
On March 5, 2015, a California jury returned a $5.7 million verdict against Ethicon, Inc., which is a Johnson & Johnson company, in a transvaginal mesh lawsuit filed by a woman who was implanted with Ethicon’s transvaginal mesh device in 2011 to treat her stress urinary incontinence. The[...]
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MDVIP Hit With $8.5M Verdict
February 14, 2015
On February 10, 2015, MDVIP, the largest concierge medicine practice firm in the United States, was hit with a $8.5 million verdict by a Palm Beach County, Florida jury that found it liable for the medical negligence of one of its MDVIP-affiliated physicians that led to a patient having her leg am[...]
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$18.27M Kentucky Birth Injury Verdict Settled For $17.5M
February 13, 2015
On February 3, 2015, a Kentucky hospital agreed to settle a birth injury medical malpractice case for $17.5 million. In November 2014, a Kentucky medical malpractice jury had awarded the child and his mother $18.27 million for the serious and permanent brain injury suffered by the child during deli[...]
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$3.157M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation
February 7, 2015
On January 22, 2015, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3.157 million in favor of the sixty-five-year-old plaintiff who had to have his left leg amputated as a result of the medical negligence of the defendant surgeon who had treated the plaintiff in the hos[...]
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Arkansas Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict
February 6, 2015
On January 12, 2015, an Arkansas medical malpractice jury determined that a Mountain Home, Arkansas physician was not at fault for the death of a 45-year-old patient in 2005. The jury took less than one hour after six days of trial to return its verdict in favor of the physician. The Arkansas med[...]
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