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$9M Alabama Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Urgent Care Clinic

October 16, 2019

On October 11, 2019, an Alabama medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $9 million against an urgent care clinic, finding that it breached the standard in care in treating a patient that resulted in her death. The jury’s verdict was the largest ever in a m[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Upholds $12.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failire To Timely Diagnose Mesenteric Ischemia

October 14, 2019

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Four (“Missouri Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on October 1, 2019, affirmed a Missouri medical malpractice jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $14,245,545 that was reduced to $12,820,990 because the jury[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted To Nurses Who Failed To Diagnose 7-Year-Old’s Severe Ankle Injury, Leading to Amputation

September 12, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) in its unpublished opinion filed on August 23, 2019, reversed summary judgment granted to the defendant nurses in a New Jersey medical malpractice case, finding that the plaintiffs established a prima faci[...]

Maryland Corporate Lawyer Dies During Her Own Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Trial

September 3, 2019

A 39-year-old corporate lawyer was in the middle of her own two-week Maryland medical malpractice trial when she died of breast cancer on August 31, 2019. The well-respected lawyer, who was also a regent for the University System of Maryland, alleged in her Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that [...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Urgent Care Clinic Failed To Diagnose Foot Fracture

September 1, 2019

A West Virginia man who suffered a serious foot injury at work when a 1,000 pound pipe fell on his foot has filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against an urgent care clinic, alleging that its physician failed to diagnose and treat his foot fracture, leading to delay in treatment injur[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Orders Second New Trial In Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice Case

July 29, 2019

For the second time in a Maryland medical malpractice breast cancer misdiagnosis case, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) overturned a Maryland medical malpractice jury’s verdict (this time overturning a jury verdict in favor of the defendants; th[...]

Study Finds Vascular Events, Infections, And Cancers Account For 75% Of Serious Misdiagnosis-Related Harms Alleged In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 27, 2019

A study published online on July 11, 2019 in the medical journal Diagnosis, the Official Journal of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), found that vascular events, infections, and cancers account for about three-fourths of serious misdiagnosis-related harms (morbidity/mortality) in [...]

$2M VA Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Diagnosis Of Tongue Cancer

July 24, 2019

The widow of a 69-year-old veteran who died in 2017 after the VA negligently delayed diagnosis of his tongue cancer for about 20 months, during which time the cancer spread and became terminal, will receive $2 million from the federal government in settlement of her wrongful death lawsuit. The settl[...]

$3.4M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

June 14, 2019

On May 31, 2019, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after three days of deliberations in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $3.38 million for the death of their 21-month-old daughter in September 2014 because her strangulated small intestine was not diagnosed in time [...]

Maine Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Radiologist Who Negligently Misread CT Scan

June 12, 2019

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court (“Maine Appellate Court”), in its decision filed on May 30, 2019, affirmed the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant radiologist in a Maine medical malpractice case where the plaintiff claimed the radiologist negligently [...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rejects Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

June 3, 2019

In its opinion filed on May 21, 2019, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held: “There is a split of authority around the country as to whether a patient may recover for the injury of the mere “loss of chance” of a better medical outcome pr[...]

$5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologists For Failure To Diagnose Chiari Malformation

May 20, 2019

On April 8, 2019, a New York medical malpractice jury in Queens County, New York announced its unanimous verdict in the amount of $5 million in favor of the plaintiff against two radiologists whom the plaintiff alleged had failed to report an abnormality on two successive MRI scans of the brain (Chi[...]

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