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$6.9M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread Mammogram

February 4, 2016

A South Carolina medical malpractice jury has awarded $6.2 million to a woman whose suspicious mammogram was read as normal and who was later diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The jury also awarded the woman’s husband $700,000 for his loss of consortium claim. The South Carolina medical m[...]

Is An Autopsy Necessary For A Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim?

January 20, 2016

An autopsy, more formally known as a postmortem medical examination, is used to help determine the cause and manner of death and is often requested or ordered if the cause of death is not clear or is suspect, the decedent died under unexpected or unusual circumstances, the decedent was young, an aut[...]

$1.57M Washington State Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis

January 4, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a Washington State medical malpractice jury awarded a 56-year-old former carpenter and his wife $1.57 million in their medical malpractice case against a local hospital that they claimed was negligent in failing to timely diagnose the husband’s serious medical complicatio[...]

New Hampshire ER Misdiagnosed Disabled Man’s Neck Fracture – Twice

December 19, 2015

The family of a severely disabled nonverbal New Hampshire man is demanding answers for why their severely disabled relative’s neck fracture was misdiagnosed by a local hospital’s ER, twice, leading to his unnecessary agonizing pain. The man was no stranger to the New Hampshire hospital [...]

$3M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

November 30, 2015

On November 13, 2015, a Jefferson County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million for past and future noneconomic damages in favor of a woman whose lung cancer went undiagnosed for four years due to alleged medical negligence by two physicians who were [...]

$10.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Misdiagnosed Bacterial Meningitis

November 27, 2015

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 6-year-old boy and against defendant Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”) for the serious injuries the boy suffered when he was 11 months old allegedly due to CHOP’s failure to timely diag[...]

PA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Responsible For 15-Year-Old’s Death

November 6, 2015

A Pennsylvania wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit scheduled for trial in January 2016 alleges that the defendant hospital, its emergency room physician, and others were medically negligent in discharging a 15-year-old patient from the emergency room before properly treating him and diagnosi[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Discusses Use Of Internet Web Pages In Medical Malpractice Case

September 18, 2015

In its decision filed on September 10, 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided whether certain materials obtained from the Internet qualify as published treatises, periodicals, or the like within the meaning of the “learned treatise” exception to the hearsay rule in a Ma[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds JNOV For Medical Malpractice Defendant

September 14, 2015

In its decision filed on September 3, 2015, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) upheld the trial court’s granting judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in favor of one of the medical malpractice defendants following a mistrial after the Mississip[...]

$28M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Two Gastroenterologists

September 6, 2015

On September 3, 2015, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff and his wife in the amount of $28 million, after a three-week trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The plaintiffs alleged that the husband’s undiagnosed duodenal ulcer subsequ[...]

Arrested Texas Neurosurgeon Remains In Jail

August 29, 2015

On August 21, 2015, a Texas judge refused to lower the $600,000 bail set for a neurosurgeon who had practiced in Texas before his medical license was revoked in December 2013 as a result of the Texas Medical Board determining that the neurosurgeon had exhibited a pattern of failing to follow appro[...]

$4.1M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Overturned On Appeal

August 27, 2015

In its decision filed on August 26, 2015, the Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Appellate Court”) overturned a Florida medical malpractice jury’s award of damages in the amount of $4,101,776 to a young child and her parents. The Florida medical malpractice jury h[...]

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