Medical Malpractice Verdict Archives - Page 87 of 106

$5M Michigan Medical Malpractice Judgment For Midwife Malpractice

June 2, 2014

In what may be a hollow victory due to the lack of malpractice insurance to pay the judgment, a Michigan judge entered a default judgment in the amount of $5 million in favor of the parents of a newborn who died shortly after his birth in 2011, allegedly due to the medical negligence of the [&hellip[...]

$5.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Knee Injury Leading To Amputation

May 30, 2014

On May 23, 2014, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in Baltimore City awarded more than $5.2 million to a security guard whose knee injury was misdiagnosed by an emergency room physician and a physician’s assistant, ultimately leading to an above-the-knee amputation. While the jury was delibe[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement Payment Fully Applied To Reduce Jury Verdict

May 22, 2014

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appeals Court”) recently held in a Michigan medical malpractice case that the amount of a settlement paid by one medical malpractice defendant to all of the plaintiffs prior to trial to settle all of their claims reduces the amount of the juryR[...]

$1.72M Alaska Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon

May 12, 2014

On May 5, 2014, an Alaska medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.72 million against a neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have acted negligently and recklessly while performing surgery on a patient in 2009. The verdict included $232,000 for past medical expenses incurred b[...]

$3.7M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict Vacated; Retrial Results In Defense Verdict

May 7, 2014

In May 2011, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $3,767,792. However, the trial judge granted the defendants’ post-trial motion and vacated the jury’s verdict in September 2011. The second trial commence[...]

$14M Yasmin Jury Verdict

April 27, 2014

On April 18, 2014, after a two-week trial, a Cook County, Illinois Circuit Court medical malpractice jury awarded $14 million to a woman who suffered a serious stroke thirteen days after she began taking the birth control medication Yasmin. The 37-year-old woman lost the use of the left side of h[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Jury Award

April 23, 2014

By its decision dated April 10, 2014, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (Bronx County, New York) affirmed the trial court’s reduction of the medical malpractice jury verdict that awarded the plaintiffs $300,000 for past pain and suffering and $4,200,000 for future pain[...]

Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgeon Wins $7.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict (Against Cleveland Clinic)

April 21, 2014

On March 20, 2014, after a two-and-a-half-week trial and one day of jury deliberations, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded a former Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon $7.7 million in medical malpractice damages for the allegedly negligent eye surgery performed at the Cleveland Clini[...]

$4M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Four Years Of Misdiagnosis And Unnecessary Treatment

April 19, 2014

For four years, a 42-year-old New York man underwent biweekly blood treatments, had chest surgery to remove his thymus gland, and gained 80 pounds and became hypertensive due to medication that he took for a diagnosed neuromuscular disorder (myasthenia gravis) that he did not have. He endured 74 un[...]

$2.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Mesh Verdict

April 14, 2014

After a one-week Maryland medical malpractice jury trial and two days of jury deliberations, the jury awarded the medical malpractice plaintiff approximately $2.1 million on April 2, 2014, which will be reduced to $1.3 million after applying Maryland’s cap (limit) on noneconomic damages. The[...]

$2.88M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide After Pain Management Injections

April 11, 2014

A 40-year-old physically active Kansas man had chronic lower back pain for which he sought steroid injections intended to alleviate his pain. He first had epidural steroid injections into his back in May 2008 that were performed at a pain management clinic run by Board-certified anesthesiologists. W[...]

$1.1M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Heart Surgery

April 10, 2014

On March 28, 2014, a Maine medical malpractice jury determined that a Maine physician was negligent in his treatment of a 63-year-old man who underwent heart bypass surgery on November 9, 2010 but died four days later after he was allegedly not provided a proper blood transfusion. The same Maine[...]

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