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Defendant Physician’s Medical License Problems Held Irrelevant In Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case

December 25, 2014

In its decision issued on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) held that the defendant physician’s medical license problems were not admissible in the case it was deciding because evidence of collateral misconduct to show a person’s pro[...]

$5.62M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict Against ENT

December 4, 2014

On November 25, 2014, after a three-week trial, a Hawaii medical malpractice jury awarded $5.62 million to a 43-year-old man whose cancer was left undiagnosed for two years, during which it grew from the size of a lima bean to the size of a fist. The man had gone to a local Hawaii hospital in 200[...]

Marvin Hamlisch’s Death The Subject Of New York Medical Malpractice Claim

October 14, 2014

Marvin Hamlisch, the internationally famed composer and conductor, died at the age of 68 on August 6, 2012, after collapsing and slipping into a coma following a flight from New York to Los Angeles. Mr. Hamlisch never woke up from his coma and he died five days later. The defendant doctor was respo[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case Alleging False HIV Test Result Was Filed Too Late

September 21, 2014

A Circuit Court judge in Kentucky has entered summary judgment against a man with regard to his Kentucky medical malpractice lawsuit filed against the University of Kentucky Medical Center that alleged that the plaintiff was falsely told in 2004 that he was HIV positive. The Kentucky medical malp[...]

Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Inform Patient Of Cancer Diagnosis

September 19, 2014

According to a Chicago medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a urologist and a medical center, the daughter of a 58-year-old man who died from bladder cancer alleges that her father was not timely told about the results of a pathology report that found cancer after her father had a biopsy of a[...]

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Chronic Lyme Disease)

September 3, 2014

We often receive calls and inquiries from people throughout the United States who have chronic Lyme disease (properly called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome) who claim that their healthcare providers failed to timely and properly diagnose their Lyme disease and/or misdiagnosed their Lyme di[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Filed For 4-Year-Old’s Undiagnosed Ruptured Spleen

September 1, 2014

The parents of a four-year-old child filed a West Virginia medical malpractice case on July 16, 2014 against a physician, a radiology practice, and a local hospital, alleging that their medical negligence in failing to diagnose their son’s ruptured spleen led to his serious injuries. The fam[...]

Alabama $4M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Heart Attack Misdiagnosed As Stomach Virus

August 24, 2014

On August 19, 2014, after a seven day trial, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $4 million. The medical malpractice defendant was the emergency room physician who had treated the 40-year-old man in the hospital’s emergency room,[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Negligent ER Care, Misleading Advertising

August 23, 2014

A Kentucky man has filed a medical malpractice case against a Kentucky hospital, alleging that the care he received in its emergency department by a nurse practitioner was negligent, causing him serious injuries, and further alleging that the hospital violated the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act, [...]

$2.3M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Untreated Infection

August 7, 2014

A Rockland County, New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a 52-year-old man who alleged that his untreated infection left him with a permanent and painful hip condition. After a three-week trial that ended on July 31, 2014, the medical malpractice jury held the head of the[...]

Ohio Cancer Misdiagnosis Case Alleges MRI Of Wrong Knee

August 5, 2014

An Ohio woman filed a medical malpractice case during July 2014 in which she alleges that the negligence of two treating physicians in failing to timely diagnose a cancerous tumor in her left knee for a period of seven months in 2010 led to her chances of survival decreasing from 70% (when[...]

Ex-Wife’s Share Of Husband’s New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Reduced

July 19, 2014

A New York Supreme Court judge has told the ex-wife of a man who had successfully sued for medical malpractice in New York that her jury award in the amount of $1 million was excessive and that she would have to endure a new trial to determine her damages for loss of services from her […][...]

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