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Minnesota Jail Malpractice Case Filed For Death Of Inmate

August 5, 2024

The family of 37-year-old Nickolas Norberg has filed a lawsuit against Stearns County jail and the jail’s health care provider, CentraCare, alleging that medical providers and jail staff failed to properly assess and treat Norberg and ignored his pleas for help following his arrest on October [...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Holds Amount Of Proof Of Causation Necessary In Medical Malpractice Cases Is The Same As In Ordinary Negligence Cases

July 19, 2024

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Laws Minnesota Statutes section 145.682 (2022), subdivision 2, establishes requirements “[i]n an action alleging malpractice, error, mistake, or failure to cure . . . against a health care provider” in which “expert testimony is necessary to establish a prima faci[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Interventional Radiologist Not Qualified To Testify To Standard Of Care Applicable To Vascular Surgeon

July 6, 2024

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in its nonprecedential decision filed on April 29, 2024 involving a Minnesota medical malpractice case alleging that a vascular surgeon committed medical malpractice in his surgical treatment of the plaintiff’s popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES), i[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Applies 60-Day Safe Harbor Period To Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

March 30, 2024

In a Minnesota medical malpractice case decided by the Minnesota Court of Appeals on February 16, 2024, the Court held that Minn. Stat. § 573.02, subd. 1 (2022), does not require dismissal of a wrongful-death action based on medical malpractice when the expert-review affidavit is served after the w[...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Allows Protected Health Information To Be Used For Hospital Fundraising

December 16, 2023

Kelly and Evarist Schneider II (the Schneiders) were informed by Children’s Health Care (Children’s) that protected health information of their child, M.S., was disclosed by Children’s to its institutionally related foundation and its business associate for fundraising purposes. The Schneiders[...]

Two Minnesota Seven-Figure Verdicts Against Troubled Nursing Home

December 21, 2022

Seven-Figure Verdicts Against Nursing Home: For the second time in 2022, the Estates at St. Louis Park (“Estates”) nursing home in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which has a one star rating under the five-star rating system used by CMS, was held liable by a jury in excess of $1 million for failin[...]

$111M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Compartment Syndrome Verdict

May 22, 2022

On May 16, 2022, a Minnesota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $111 million in favor of a 25-year-old who had been injured in January 2017 while playing soccer at a pickup soccer game at St. Cloud State University. The plaintiff was injured when another soccer player tackled[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Premature Birth Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

August 22, 2021

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”) stated in its nonprecedential opinion filed on August 2, 2021 in a Minnesota medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants’ delay in providing appropriate medical care and treatment [...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Remands Mental Health Provider Malpractice Lawsuit For Suicide/Familicide

March 13, 2021

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Court of Appeals”) held in its opinion filed on February 16, 2021, “Because Short’s mental-health provider owed a duty of care to him as a matter of law, and because genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether Short’s [...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Concerning Musician Prince’s Death, For Lack Of Personal Jurisdiction

October 28, 2020

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated September 28, 2020: “Following the death of the musician Prince, the trustee for his next of kin brought a wrongful-death action against a physician and healthcare clinic, bo[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Legal Malpractice Lawsuit Arising From Medical Malpractice Claim

June 3, 2020

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated April 13, 2020, held, “we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying the Ruizes’ motion for continuance. While the result of denying the Ruizes’[...]

Minnesota Laser Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Dermatologist’s Use Of Laser Caused 6-Year-Old’s Permanent Facial Scarring

January 14, 2020

A laser medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in November 2019 in Minnesota that alleges that improper laser treatment for a port wine stain birthmark on the left side of a six-year-old girl’s face caused significant permanent scarring and much pain. The defendant dermatologist began treating [...]

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