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$14.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Emergency Room Care

November 14, 2017

On November 3, 2017, a Missouri judge signed an order entering judgment in excess of $14.2 million in favor of a Missouri medical malpractice plaintiff after a Missouri medical malpractice jury found in his favor following a trial that lasted from October 30, 2017 to November 3, 2017. The 55-year-ol[...]

$6M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Obstruction Complication Leading To Death

October 30, 2017

On October 2, 2017, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the estate of a woman who died in the hospital following a complication from treatment for a bowel obstruction. The five-day Georgia medical malpractice trial ended when the medical malpractice jury took less tha[...]

$3.35M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologists For Misread Mammograms

September 21, 2017

On August 30, 2017, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3.35 million against two radiologist and a hospital for their alleged failure to diagnose the plaintiff’s breast cancer from two mammograms that were performed one year [...]

$20.6M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Postpartum Death

September 18, 2017

A Minnesota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on August 28, 2017 for the death of a 30-year-old mother who had given birth to her first child in the hospital, and six days later died as a result of sepsis that was undiagnosed in the hospital’s emergency r[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

September 3, 2017

A Georgia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that on December 16, 2013 she had a chest x-ray taken as part of her clearance for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and that the radiologist who read the chest x-ray identified a 7 mm nodule on her left lung for which he recommende[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Hospital For Pancreatic Cancer Misdiagnosis, Concealment From Patient

August 21, 2017

On August 1, 2017, a woman who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by a hospital pathologist and underwent unnecessary surgery to remove multiple organs due to the misdiagnosis that was concealed from her filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, the former chair of the ho[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Applies Common Knowledge Exception To Expert Testimony In Stroke Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice Case

August 4, 2017

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS CASE WAS REVERSED BY THE KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT ON AUGUST 29, 2019 In its unpublished opinion filed on July 21, 2017, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that given the ubiquity of information regar[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Denial Of Summary Judgment In Failure To Warn Medical Malpractice Claim

August 3, 2017

In its unpublished opinion dated July 18, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s denial of summary judgment in favor of the Michigan medical malpractice defendants with regard to the plaintiffs’ failure to warn theory, but [...]

Nebraska Supreme Court Rejects Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

July 27, 2017

The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected the loss-of-chance doctrine in a Nebraska medical malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that the failure to diagnose her breast cancer for one year increased the probability that she would suffer a recurrence of her breast cancer in the future. The Nebraska[...]

Did False Positive Drug Test Lead To New Mother Being Accused Of Heroin Abuse?

June 26, 2017

A Cincinnati woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital and state investigators who made her life a living hell for two months, during which time she was repeatedly accused of being a heroin addict who was a threat to her newborn and her other children. The woman’s painful and embarrassing o[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony Not Admissible

June 12, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 13, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in favor of the defendants in a Michigan medical malpractice wrongful death case because the plainti[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Upholds $1.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Cancer Misdiagnosed As Benign Meningioma

June 7, 2017

The Appellate Court of Illinois Third District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed in its April 24, 2017 opinion, an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $1,727,409.50 to the wife and the estate of a man who died because the defendant neuropathologist who read the biopsy slide[...]

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