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$33.2 Million Settlement For Defective Medical Testing Device

April 10, 2018

Patients and their doctors rely on the safety and effectiveness of medical testing devices when making decisions regarding diagnosis and medical care. Defective or faulty medical testing devices put patient safety at risk and may result in the wrong decisions being made regarding medical treatment, [...]

$645K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Elective Back Surgery

February 15, 2018

On January 12, 2018, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a 64-year-old man died from heart complications following elective back surgery in October 2013 that was intended to address an injury [...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Quest Diagnostic’s Standard Operating Procedures Are Confidential In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 25, 2017

In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleges that Quest Diagnostics misdiagnosed the decedent’s cancer, the non-precedential decsion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) filed on October 3, 2917 stated: “the evide[...]

South Dakota Eye Bank Sued For Medical Malpractice

June 21, 2016

A South Dakota eye bank is being sued by two teenagers who either lost their eyesight or are at significant risk of losing their eyesight because the South Dakota eye bank supplied infected corneas that were transplanted in them. One of the plaintiffs is a 19-year-old woman who is now blind in h[...]

$2.2M Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unnecessary Cardiac Procedure

June 12, 2016

On May 24, 2016, a Kentucky medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, for the husband’s unnecessary cardiac procedure performed in preparation for knee replacement surgery that led to the husband’s loss of his leg below the knee. [...]

$570,000 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Internal Bleeding Causing Death

January 27, 2016

Earlier this month, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in what is considered to be a conservative jurisdiction for personal injury claims returned its verdict in favor of the estate of a woman who died due to the failure to timely diagnose her internal bleeding while she was on blood thinners. The [...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Sides With Hospital In Newborn’s Death Claim

January 9, 2016

On January 7, 2016, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury took one and a half hours after a three and a half day trial to find that a local West Virginia hospital was not medically negligent in the death of a newborn baby just a few days after his birth in 2012 due to undiagnosed Hypoplastic Le[...]

New, Additional Criminal Charges Filed Against Owner Of Maryland-Based Portable Diagnostic Services Company

April 13, 2015

On April 9, 2015, a federal grand jury in Maryland returned a superseding indictment against the owner of a Maryland-based portable diagnostic services company, charging him with an additional four counts of health care fraud resulting in serious bodily harm and death, as well as conspiracy a[...]

Johns Hopkins University Sued For $1B For STD Studies Conducted In Guatemala 70 Years Ago

April 7, 2015

On April 1, 2015, a lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their alleged part in U.S. government studies conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala that allegedly involved infecting hundreds of p[...]

Defensive Medicine Study: Cancer Patients Make Clinically Inappropriate Demands In Only 1% Of Encounters

March 16, 2015

One of the arguments often raised in support of imposing restrictive tort reforms on medical malpractice victims is that doctors are forced to practice “defensive medicine” otherwise (that is, doctors order medical tests that are not medically necessary in order to avoid medical malpr[...]

$4.4M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Challenged Because Jurors Allowed to Touch Plaintiff’s Hands

March 15, 2015

Last week, a panel of the Court of Appeals of Georgia was asked by the losing medical malpractice defendant to overturn a medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $4.4 million that was handed down in May 2014. One of the issues raised by the defendant hos[...]

$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[...]

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