North Carolina Surgeon Found Liable For Medical Negligence
December 23, 2014
On December 17, 2014, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury found that the defendant surgeon was negligent in performing surgery on a pregnant patient in 2009. The medical malpractice testimony in the case began on December 8 and was capped by the defendant testifying on his own behalf the day [...]
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$3.4M Delaware Medical Malpractice Verdict
December 21, 2014
On December 11, 2014, after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations, the 52-year-old plaintiff in a Delaware medical malpractice case was awarded $3,425,515 in damages for her loss of income, medical expenses, and her pain and suffering arising out of an allegedly botched surgery on [...]
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D.C.’s Highest Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict
December 11, 2014
By its decision issued on November 20, 2014, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed a jury’s $650,000 verdict in a medical malpractice case involving the alleged negligence of the nurses employed by the defendant hospital in failing to place sequential compression devices (SCDs) [...]
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$5.62M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict Against ENT
December 4, 2014
On November 25, 2014, after a three-week trial, a Hawaii medical malpractice jury awarded $5.62 million to a 43-year-old man whose cancer was left undiagnosed for two years, during which it grew from the size of a lima bean to the size of a fist. The man had gone to a local Hawaii hospital in 200[...]
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Georgia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Neurosurgeon
November 28, 2014
Earlier this month, after three days of trial and two-and-a-half hours of jury deliberations, a Fulton County, Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a neurosurgeon who had been sued for allegedly contributing to his patient’s death shortly after spine surgery. The p[...]
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