Medical Malpractice Verdict Archives - Page 91 of 106

$9.5M Maryland Medical Malpratice Verdict For Infant’s Cerebral Palsy

November 30, 2013

On November 22, 2013, after eight hours of jury deliberations, a Prince George’s County Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its $9.5 million verdict in favor of a minor child and her family against a hospital emergency room nurse and the company that provided emergency room services[...]

$3.75M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delay In Diagnosing Lung Cancer

November 29, 2013

On November 25, 2013, a Montgomery County Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3.75 million in favor of the family of a 74-year-old man whose lung cancer diagnosis was delayed by 20 months after his primary care physician failed to properly follow up regarding a l[...]

$2.4M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Undiagnosed Bowel Obstruction

November 25, 2013

A 47-year-old nurse had severe back pain and abdominal pain for which she went to a local hospital emergency room on March 10, 2007. The nurse had gastric bypass surgery two years earlier, for which bowel obstruction is a known risk. Despite the woman’s symptoms and her history of prior gastr[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Gynecologist

November 19, 2013

On November 14, 2013, a federal medical malpractice jury in Oregon found that a gynecologist negligently treated his patient by wrongfully removing her healthy ovary during robotic surgery for pelvic pain, and left a foreign object in her body after the surgical robot allegedly malfunctioned, whi[...]

$7M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pediatrician Malpractice

October 25, 2013

On October 18, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a sparsely populated Western Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of more than $7 million in favor of the family of a newborn infant who allegedly suffered a severe brain injury because the infant’s pediatrician failed[...]

West Virginia Orthopedic Surgeon Faces Two Medical Malpractice Cases In 2013

October 15, 2013

A West Virginia orthopedic surgeon who was sued for medical malpractice in May 2013 was also subject to a medical malpractice judgment against him in another case on October 4, 2013. The malpractice lawsuit filed on May 1, 2013 in the Circuit Court for Mercer County, West Virginia was filed by a[...]

When Are Medical Malpractice Payments Required To Be Reported To The NPDB?

October 13, 2013

The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) is a confidential information clearinghouse created by Congress with the primary goals of improving health care quality, protecting the public, and reducing health care fraud and abuse in the U.S. The NPDB is primarily an alert or flagging sy[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Ends In Hung Jury

October 10, 2013

On October 3, 2013, a Culpeper, Virginia medical malpractice jury advised the presiding judge that it was unable to agree on a verdict despite 11 hours of jury deliberations over two days. The jury of three men and three women handed the judge a note that stated, “We are all in agreement tha[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $12.9M For Birth Injuries

October 9, 2013

On September 27, 2013, a Michigan medical malpractice jury returned an award in favor of the plaintiffs in a birth injury case in the amount of $12.9 million after a 12-day trial. The verdict will likely be reduced to approximately $4 million once Michigan’s $433,400 cap on noneconomic damages[...]

Contributory Negligence Dooms Maryland Jury’s $1.765M Actos Award

September 28, 2013

On September 26, 2013, after less than one day of jury deliberations following four weeks of trial, a Baltimore jury calculated its award in the total amount of $1,765,000 in favor of the plaintiffs in their product liability lawsuit against the large pharmaceutical company Takeda Pharmaceuticals[...]

$2.85M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

September 23, 2013

On September 13, 2013, a Horry County, South Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded a hospital emergency room patient and his wife $2.85 million ($2,300,000 to the man and $550,000 to his wife) for the paraplegia the man suffered as a result of medical malpractice at the hospital. The manR[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Verdict For Suffocation Death

September 15, 2013

On September 9, 2013, after approximately two weeks of trial, an Ohio jury awarded $375,000 to the family of a 70-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated and died when the electricity to the nursing home went out during a storm, causing his breathing machine to stop functioning. The res[...]

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