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Facebook Post Helps To Torpedo Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Case

January 7, 2017

In its decision filed on December 22, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) held that reasonable minds could not differ in the conclusion that the medical malpractice plaintiff knew, or reasonably should have known, between July and September, 2009, that her long-s[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

January 5, 2017

In its opinion filed on November 29, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson (“Appellate Court”) determined that the trial court erred in excluding and failing to consider respectively the deposition testimony and affidavit of the plaintiff’s medical expert (her subsequ[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Applies Two-Year Statute Of Limitations To Survival Action In Medical Malpractice Case

December 22, 2016

In its opinion filed on December 7, 2016, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“Appellate Court”) held that the trial court should have granted summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendant where the plaintiff failed to file the survival action within the two-year[...]

Michigan Class Action Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Pediatric Neurologist Misdiagnosed Hundreds Of Children With Epilepsy

December 4, 2016

A class action medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Michigan alleges that a Michigan pediatric neurologist misdiagnosed hundreds of children with epilepsy in the mid-2000s. The pediatric neurologist was born in Egypt and attended medical school in Egypt in the 1970s. He obtained his medical license [...]

$20M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Lawyer’s Misdiagnosed Brain Aneurysm

November 28, 2016

On November 21, 2016, an Illinois judge approved a $20 million medical malpractice settlement reached during an Illinois medical malpractice trial that began on October 28, 2016, for the serious brain injury suffered by a 50-year-old attorney in 2012 after he suffered a stroke two days after being e[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Says Parent’s Contributory Negligence Cannot Be Imputed To Child In Medical Malpractice Cases

November 25, 2016

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appellate Court”) held in a case it decided on November 18, 2016 that the contributory negligence of the parent of a child cannot be imputed to the child in the child’s medical malpractice claim against a health care provider. In general, Indiana c[...]

$1.9M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against A Hospital For Death Caused By Untreated DVT

October 28, 2016

An Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on October 13, 2016 in the amount of $1.9 million for the wrongful death of a 31-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed and negligently treated in the defendant hospital’s emergency room and then sent home, where s[...]

Ohio Responsible For Inmate’s $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, after three hours of jury deliberations in federal court in Ohio, the eight-person federal jury awarded a former Ohio prison inmate $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages after the State of Ohio failed to timely file an answer to the inmate[...]

Former Colorado Neurologist Sued By Four Patients Alleging Misdiagnosis Of MS

September 9, 2016

Four former patients of a former Colorado neurologist have filed federal medical malpractice lawsuits in Colorado against the neurologist, alleging that he misdiagnosed them with having multiple sclerosis (MS) and then negligently treated them for years for MS, which incurable disease they did not[...]

$6.8M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Patient’s Blindness

August 20, 2016

A Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 50-year-old plaintiff in the amount of $6,844,543 to compensate him for his total blindness that he developed over the course of two days while in the hospital following his heart surgery. The jury’s award of $1.7 million fo[...]

$4.7M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome

August 1, 2016

On July 15, 2016, an Indiana judge awarded an Indiana couple a total of $4.7 million following a bench trial in April 2016, finding that the husband’s treating physician breached the standard of care by failing to diagnose the husband’s infection that resulted in cauda equina syndrome th[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Too Late

July 19, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 8, 2016, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s Alabama medical malpractice lawsuit because the plaintiff would be unable to prove any set of facts to support his claim that his legal injury occu[...]

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