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Massachusetts Medical Malpractice $3.74 Million Verdict For Heart Attack Death

December 6, 2012

In June, 2012, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded $3.74 million to the family of a 59-year-old man who died from a heart attack in June, 2006. An autopsy determined that the man had coronary heart disease and prior heart damage . Four months earlier, he had been transported by paramedi[...]

Texas Chiropractor Failed To Obtain Informed Consent

December 3, 2012

On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court of Texas (“Supreme Court”) stated in its written opinion that health care must be based on a patient’s informed consent and that a health care provider may be liable for failing to disclose to a patient the risks inherent in proposed treatment[...]

New York Court Of Appeals Says Doctor’s Sex With Patient Was Medical Malpractice

November 30, 2012

On November 29, 2012, the Court of Appeals of New York (New York’s highest appellate court) issued its written memorandum in a case we first blogged about on October 22, 2012 (“Doctor Had An Affair With His Patient: Is It Medical Malpractice?“). The Court of Appeals (“the Co[...]

Florida $1.25 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hepatitis C Contracted During Colonoscopy

November 26, 2012

A 70-year-old Florida Air Force veteran had a colonoscopy in 2007 at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center (“V.A. Medical Center”). He had been tested for hepatitis C in 2006 that was reported as negative. But in 2009, after receiving a letter from the V.A. stating that he [...]

New Hampshire $5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist

November 24, 2012

On November 15, 2012, a New Hampshire medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5 million against a radiologist who allegedly misread a CT scan that resulted in the patient suffering more severe effects from a stroke. The medical malpractice case took two weeks to try and the [...]

Florida Nursing Home Hit With $1.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 22, 2012

Earlier this week a Palm Beach County, Florida jury reached a verdict of nearly $1.8 million in favor of the estate of a former pro-wrestler who died as a result of nursing home negligence on May 23, 2008. The 72-year-old nursing home resident had end-stage senile dementia and other medical probl[...]

North Carolina $6 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice Leading To Death

October 25, 2012

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in excess of $6 million in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs on October 10, 2012. The medical malpractice jury found that a surgeon had left a large sponge in a woman’s abdominal cavity following surgery that led to infec[...]

Georgia $5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Amputation of Both Legs

October 1, 2012

On September 24, 2012, after more than one week of trial and over two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $5 million for a woman who had both of her legs amputated below the knees as a result of what the jury found to be medica[...]

New Mexico $2 Million Verdict For Bad Back Surgery

September 24, 2012

On September 7, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million after five days of trial and deliberating for less than three hours, in favor of a man whose back surgery in May, 2008 resulted in the man suffering cardiac arrest 36 hours late[...]

New Court Decision Regarding Illinois Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

September 21, 2012

In a written opinion filed on September 20, 2012, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) in a case captioned Sue Carter v. SSC Odin Operating Company, LLC(2012 IL 113204) decided two issues: (1) whether an arbitration agreement between a resident of a [...]

San Francisco $1.138 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 18, 2012

On September 12, 2012, a San Francisco, California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the total amount of $1,138,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs. The medical malpractice trial lasted one month in the Superior Court during which the medical malpractice jury heard testim[...]

Washington State Extends Lost Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Cases

September 14, 2012

In a case decided last October by the Supreme Court of Washington (“the Court”), the issue before the Court was whether the “lost chance doctrine” applies in medical malpractice cases where the injuries resulted in disability rather than death (in a 1983 case, the Court h[...]

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