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Minnesota Appellate Court Holds No Claim For Emotional Injury For Destruction Of Sperm Intended For Fertility Treatments

October 21, 2026

A laboratory under contract to preserve sperm for use in a married couple’s medically assisted effort to conceive a child destroyed the sperm before the designated contract termination. The couple sued the laboratory seeking emotional damages for alleged medical malpractice. The district court dis[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Dental Malpractice Expert’s Affidavit Sufficient

July 20, 2026

Edward Gerrety sought dental treatment from Dr. Luke Bogdanowicz in October 2019 to replace a dental bridge. Between November 2019 and January 2020, Gerrety saw Dr. Bogdanowicz five times for dental work. Dr. Bogdanowicz determined that Gerrety’s tooth number 31 was fractured and could not be salv[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Experts Qualified To Testify In Birth Injury Case

May 27, 2026

Early one morning in November 2020, mother arrived at a hospital of Allina Health System experiencing contractions. The hospital admitted mother, and by 9:40 a.m., mother entered the second stage of labor and began pushing. Thirty minutes later, when child’s head was near crowning, obstetrician Dr[...]

Minnesota Assisted Living Resident Died After Falling And Slowly Asphyxiating, As Staff Stood By

January 24, 2026

An incident report dated March 30, 2025, at 5:33 p.m., indicated ULP-D had been in the assisted living dining room, getting coffee and spoke with residents. Dietary staff (DS)-E informed ULP-D R1 fell off his scooter and was lying across his scooter with his neck being pinched between his scooter an[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $19.8M To Iowa Woman Against Mayo Clinic

January 18, 2026

In mid-November 2025, a Minnesota medical malpractice jury awarded $19.8 million to an Iowa woman against the Mayo Clinic and its former colorectal surgeon. The plaintiff, Linette Nelson, alleged that surgeon Dr. Amy Lightner recommended a series of three surgeries involving her digestive tract. The[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Experts’ Differential Diagnosis Methodology Failed To Rule Out Other Causes Of Infant’s Injury

September 2, 2025

Shortly after he was born in May 2013, an echocardiogram revealed that Antonio Ray Seals Jr. (Seals) had a number of medical complications. These included a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with a left to right shunt—a hole in Seals’s heart. Seals also had a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), whic[...]

Minnesota Trial Court Reduces Damages Awarded In Wrongful Conception Medical Malpractice Case

August 26, 2025

In early May 2023, Plaintiffs served their Complaint bringing a claim for medical malpractice against Minnesota Urology P.A. (“MN Urology”). The Complaint alleged that malpractice resulted in Ms. Szlachtowski’s unplanned pregnancy and pled the right to recover various categories of “[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Healthy Kidney Removed Instead Of Diseased Spleen

May 23, 2025

A Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit filed on May 16, 2025 alleges that the Plaintiff’s healthy left kidney was wrongfully removed during surgery that was intended to remove her diseased spleen. The lawsuit states, in part: Rappaport v. Callahan, M.D., Hennepin County District Court, Case N[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To Comply With Expert-Review Affidavit Requirements

March 29, 2025

In a Minnesota medical malpractice action, the plaintiff must serve two affidavits if expert testimony is necessary to prove their claims. Minn. Stat. § 145.682, subd. 2. The first is an affidavit of counsel stating that they reviewed the case with an expert and that, in the expert’s opinion, the[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Applies Specific Personal Jurisdiction To Keep Medical Malpractice Case In Minnesota Court

February 7, 2025

There are two types of personal jurisdiction: general personal jurisdiction and specific personal jurisdiction. General personal jurisdiction relates to contacts unrelated to the litigation including domicile or continuous and systemic contacts with the forum state. Specific personal jurisdiction fo[...]

Minnesota Wrongful Conception Lawsuit Filed

January 6, 2025

A man underwent a vasectomy in 2018 after which a nurse advised him that the post-vasectomy semen sample he provided was negative, but in fact it was positive. His wife became pregnant four years later and gave birth to a healthy child. They then filed a Minnesota wrongful conception lawsuit in 2023[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Hospital In Fall After Giving Birth Malpractice Claim

October 3, 2024

Angie M. Barsness gave birth in a hospital in December 2016. While in labor, she was given an epidural and a bolus for pain relief. A bolus involves administering a larger amount of epidural medication which increases pain relief but can lead to more numbness and less motor control of the legs. Appr[...]

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