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Michigan AG Charges Nursing Home LPN With Altering Medication Records

March 16, 2023

AG Charges Nursing Home LPN With Altering Medication Records: The Michigan Attorney General’s Office announced on January 25, 2023 that a licensed practical nurse working at Medilodge of Gaylord has been charged with five counts of Intentionally Placing False Information in a Medical Record, a[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Opinions Were Contradicted By Established Facts In Medical Malpractice Case

March 10, 2023

Experts’ Opinions Were Contradicted By Established Facts: The State of Michigan Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion dated November 3, 2022, held: “Because Dr. Bogdasarian’s and Dr. Hershon’s opinions concerning the decedent’s cause of death were contradicted by established [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Erroneously Dismissed On Statute Of Limitations Grounds

January 14, 2023

Medical Malpractice Case Erroneously Dismissed: The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its published opinion issued on September 22, 2022: “For more than 40 years, civil plaintiffs have relied on the tolling of applicable statutes of limitatio[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Cancer Death Case Was Medical Malpractice Claim, Not Lost Opportunity Case

December 22, 2022

Cancer Death Case Was Medical Malpractice: The Court of Appeals of the State of Michigan (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its September 8, 2022 opinion: “The dispositive question in this medical malpractice case is whether plaintiff’s claim is a traditional medical malpract[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms That Cardiologist Contacted About Patient May Have Created Physician-Patient Relationship And Therefore Owed Duty Of Care To Patient

December 8, 2022

Cardiologist Contacted About Patient May Have Created Physician-Patient Relationship: Statistically, most heart attacks result from a reduction of blood flow in a coronary artery supplying oxygen to the anterior portion of the heart. But some myocardial infarctions—15 to 20%—involve the heart’[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Medical Malpractice Claim

September 27, 2022

Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Malpractice: As Leegwater, a registered nurse working in the defendant hospital’s emergency department, pushed the stretcher through the doorway to the radiology suite, 97-year-old Elaine Quick apparently moved her left leg through [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Claim For Fall In Hospital Bathroom Is Medical Malpractice Claim

September 24, 2022

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its Per Curiam unpublished Opinion dated June 16, 2022 that the plaintiff’s claim involving the alleged failure of hospital staff to monitor him while he was in the bathroom when they knew he was a fall ris[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Estate’s Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Was Filed Too Late

September 13, 2022

In a case decided by the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) in an unpublished opinion dated December 21, 2021, the Michigan Appellate Court stated, “This case concerns the interplay among: (1) the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims, M[...]

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict

June 28, 2022

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict: After a three-day trial and ninety minutes of jury deliberations, a Michigan dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in mid-April 2022. The jury awarded $1.375 million for past pain and suffering and related damages, i[...]

University Of Michigan Announces $490M Settlement With Sexual Abuse Plaintiffs

February 11, 2022

The University of Michigan announced on January 10, 2022 that approximately 1,050 claimants who have alleged sexual abuse by the late University of Michigan physician Robert E. Anderson will receive $460 million in settlement of their claims, and an additional $30 million is reserved for future clai[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Pain Management Specialist Not Qualified To Testify Against Anesthesiologist

December 16, 2021

In its unpublished opinion dated November 4, 2021, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held that “the trial court erred by failing to strike plaintiff’s expert witness, Dr. Savala, as he was not qualified to give standard-of-care testimony against [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Claims Against Dentist Were For Dental Malpractice

September 15, 2021

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated August 18, 2021: “Plaintiff’s liability theories regarding Passera’s decision to extract the tooth on August 8, 1992, the decision to perform the extraction himself rather [...]

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