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Wisconsin Appellate Court Revives Inmate’s Medical Malpractice Case

November 7, 2021

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held in its opinion dated September 29, 2021: “Brandon Winzer appeals from a circuit court order dismissing his medical malpractice claim against Dr. Hartmann and Mercy Medical Center (Mercy) as time-barred under the applicable statute of limitations, WIS. STAT. [...]

Cancer Statistics For The United States (2013 – 2018)

August 11, 2021

An article published on July 8, 2021 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, Part 1: National Cancer Statistics” reported: “Cancer death rates in the United States continue to decline overall and for many cancer[...]

$3.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

July 21, 2021

On May 29, 2021, a Missouri medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict of almost $3.2 million in favor of the parents of a one-year-old who died three hours after he was seen in an urgent care clinic at CoxHealth Hospital in Branson, Missouri, on June 5, 2017. The urgent care clini[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital And Nurse In Heart Attack Medical Malpractice Case

July 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on June 16, 2021: “there is evidence suggesting that the patient warranted care his treating physician did not provide to him. Experts testified that Moss should have been placed on the Level II t[...]

$1,335,000 Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis

July 8, 2021

On June 17, 2021, a federal judge in Pennsylvania awarded a 46-year-old woman $1,335,000 after a jury found that the defendant doctor negligently failed to diagnose her ovarian cancer at a stage when it was treatable. The Maryland woman’s medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that she was referr[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Act Applied To Denied Access To Electronic Medical Records Claim

June 18, 2021

The wife of a man who suffered a stroke after being treated on three different occasions at the defendant health care facility filed a proposed complaint for medical malpractice on March 17, 2015, and several amended proposed complaints thereafter, with the Indiana Department of Insurance (“DOI”[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $14M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 16, 2021

The Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) upheld a $14 million medical malpractice jury verdict in its opinion filed on May 28, 2021. The Underlying Facts On September 21, 2012, plaintiff, Mark Allen, felt a “pop” in his neck and began to experience[...]

$13.5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Amputation Due To Misdiagnosis

June 11, 2021

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded an Army veteran and his wife $13.5 million on May 27, 2021 after a six-day trial, specifying that $10 million was being awarded for pain and suffering and an additional $3.5 million for future medical expenses and lost wages. The New York medical malpracti[...]

Former Tort Reform Advocate Files Iowa Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

May 24, 2021

71-year-old Sam Clovis, a 2014 candidate in the Iowa Republican Senate primary, one of the national co-chairs of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and a former senior White House adviser to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who was known as a vocal advocate for medical malpractice tort [...]

$6.4M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Chiari Malformation

May 22, 2021

On April 28, 2021, a six-person Lancaster, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury unanimously found in favor of a 34-year-old woman who sued her neurologist whom she alleged had failed to timely diagnose her complex Chiari malformation, which led to her being unable to walk on her own unassisted and [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Anal Cancer Medical Malpractice Defendants Not Entitled To Summary Judgment

May 17, 2021

The New York Appellate Division, Third Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated March 25, 2021 in a New York medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that the defendant primary care physician and the defendant dermatologist were negligent in failing to refer the dece[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Part Of $6.3 Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 5, 2021

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in its non-precedential decision filed on February 8, 2021, upheld a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s determination of liability in favor of the plaintiff and affirmed the wrongful death portion of the damages award but vacated the survival claim dama[...]

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