$1.6M Utah Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict
November 9, 2014
On October 27, 2014, a Utah medical malpractice jury found Utah’s largest healthcare network provider responsible for the wrongful death of a patient who was found unresponsive by his wife after failing to wake up in the morning on April 3, 2008. The jury awarded $1,676,737 in compensatory da[...]
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$8.45M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury
November 8, 2014
On October 21, 2014, a Georgia medical malpractice jury awarded $8.45 million for the birth injuries suffered during a 2008 delivery when the hospital where the baby was delivered failed to provide the newborn with a breathing tube for eight, long minutes, allegedly due to the hospital’s p[...]
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Missouri Urologist Loses Third Medical Malpractice Claim
November 7, 2014
A Missouri urologist was found to have committed medical negligence by a Missouri medical malpractice jury on October 31, 2014, following a two-day trial. The jury awarded the 58-year-old former patient of the urologist $240,000 for removing her kidney during surgery when it was allegedly unnecessa[...]
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$1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misplaced Feeding Tube
October 20, 2014
On October 10, 2014, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $958,000, which included $500,000 for pain and suffering, $250,000 for loss of consortium, and $208,000 for the amount of the plaintiffs’ stipulated medical bills. The Mar[...]
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Washington State Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Upheld
October 10, 2014
On October 6, 2014, the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington (“Appeals Court”) issued its unpublished opinion in a Washington State medical malpractice case where the jury had found in favor of the Defendants. The losing plaintiffs had challenged some of the trial judge’s r[...]
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Arkansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Alleged Birth Injury
October 2, 2014
It took an Arkansas medical malpractice jury only 18 minutes of deliberations before returning a defense verdict in a birth injury medical malpractice case that was tried over a 12-day period. The Arkansas medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that a newborn suffered serious and permanent brain dama[...]
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One Dollar North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict
September 30, 2014
On September 25, 2014, after a seven-week medical malpractice trial, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a patient and her surviving husband only $1 against a defendant neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have been negligent in performing surgery on the woman –[...]
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$20.6M Maryland Medical Malpractice Judgment Upheld
September 29, 2014
On September 25, 2014, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“CSA”), in an unreported opinion, upheld a Maryland medical malpractice judgment in the amount of $20,605,000 against the defendant hospital and defendant obstetrician. The jury had returned its verdict in the amount of $2[...]
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