Chicago Woman Loses Hip Implant Lawsuit
April 21, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a Chicago jury returned a defense verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, after deliberating for just over one day after a five-week trial. This was only the second jury trial of the almost 11,000 lawsuits filed against DePuy Orthopaedics (inclu[...]
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Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
April 20, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]
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$2.1 Million New York Radiology Malpractice Verdict
April 6, 2013
After almost three weeks of trial and on the second day of jury deliberations, a New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $2.1 million against a radiologist and in favor of a 56-year-old man whose lesion found on a CT scan of his spine in February 2008 was not p[...]
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$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 26, 2013
On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The medical m[...]
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Chicago Nursing Home Verdict
March 25, 2013
On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home on December 26, 2008 and suffered a broken hip, fractured pelvis, and fractured shoulder, all on h[...]
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Florida $1M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Drug Allergy Death
March 20, 2013
Earlier this month, a Seminole County, Florida medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1,017,000 that included $517,000 in economic damages, $500,000 for mental anguish, and attorneys’ fees. The Florida medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that th[...]
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