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$5.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Improperly Placed Cardiac Pacing Wires

September 14, 2013

On September 6, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.5 million in favor of the estate of a 53-year-old woman and her surviving daughter for the death of the woman when she bled to death within minutes after improperly placed temporary cardiac pacing wi[...]

$4M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Perform Timely Cesarean Delivery

September 13, 2013

On September 7, 2013, after a four-day Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury trial in Lehigh County Court, a verdict in the amount of $4 million was awarded to a 29-year-old woman and her child as a result of the injuries they both suffered in August 2009 during the 16-hour-long vaginal delivery of[...]

LASIK Lawsuits

September 10, 2013

LASIK (Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis) surgery involves the precise and controlled removal of corneal tissue by a special laser that reshapes the cornea and thereby changes its focusing power. The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina by bendin[...]

$10.8M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Routine Catheterization

September 3, 2013

On August 29, 2013, a Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded $10,831,155 to the family of a 34-year-old woman who died after a routine cardiac catheterization in February 2011. The woman left behind her husband and three children, ages 5, 9, and 11. The woman had gone to her doctor due to bronc[...]

$346,272 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Death

August 31, 2013

On August 28, 2013, a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland awarded $346,272 to the family of a veteran who died on October 11, 2007 as a result of medical malpractice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. The 59-year-old veteran had been discharged to home from the VA Medical[...]

$15M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child Born With Cerebral Palsy

August 28, 2013

On August 23, 2013, an Indiana medical malpractice jury awarded $15 million to the family of a newborn who suffered severe brain damage and developed cerebral palsy allegedly as a result of medical negligence that occurred at a local hospital. The Indiana cap on damages in medical malpractice case[...]

Maryland’s Highest Court Reinstates $2.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2013

On August 22, 2013, Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $2,874.398 that the intermediate appellate court (the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland) had vacat[...]

$153,000 Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Thyroid Cancer Surgery Upheld

August 23, 2013

On August 19, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) upheld a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $153,000 that a federal jury in Kansas had awarded the plaintiff in her medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a surgeon who was su[...]

$2 Million Vaginal Mesh Verdict

August 21, 2013

A federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia returned a $2 million verdict on August 15, 2013 in favor of the female plaintiff and against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”), which had manufactured and sold the transvaginal mesh product called Avaulta Plus that had been implanted in the 55-year-old[...]

$525,000 Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

August 19, 2013

Following a four-day jury trial and seven hours of jury deliberations that ended on August 1, 2013, a Missouri medial malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $525,000 in favor of the female plaintiff and against the defendant primary care physician who she alleged committed medical ne[...]

Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 16, 2013

Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]

$958K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Wrongful Palliative Care

August 15, 2013

On August 7, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned a $958,000 verdict in favor of the family of a woman who was given palliative care in a hospital instead of continuing medical treatment for her severe leg ulcers. The 62-year-old woman died a few day[...]

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