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Minnesota Supreme Court Medical Malpractice Decision Highlights Unfairness Of Mandatory Physician-Patient Waiver

February 20, 2017

In Minnesota, a medical malpractice claimant is required to waive the physician-patient privilege so that the medical malpractice defendants may informally discuss the claimant’s medical history and treatment, whether related to the medical malpractice claim or not, with all of his health care[...]

Minnesota Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death Of Teenager

February 12, 2017

In mid-January 2017, the parents of a teenager who died after having her wisdom teeth extracted by a Minnesota dentist filed a Minnesota wrongful death lawsuit against the dentist, alleging that dental malpractice led to the death of their child. An investigation by the Minnesota Board of Dentistry [...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Resident Choked On A Sandwich And Died

September 20, 2016

The Minnesota Department of Health (“Department”) recently reported on its investigation into the death of a Minnesota nursing home resident who was on a special diet when she grabbed a sandwich because she was not properly supervised by the nursing home staff, stuffed the sandwich int[...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Medication Error Leads To Resident’s Death

April 14, 2016

A resident of a Minnesota nursing home was given ten-times the ordered dose of morphine by a nursing home employee, leading to the resident’s death within one hour and forty five minutes after receiving the deadly dose. The nurse who had administered the wrong dose of morphine allegedly had qu[...]

$9.1M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Anesthesiologist

October 23, 2015

A Minnesota anesthesiology practice was found liable earlier this month to a former patient who suffered a permanent spinal injury and lost the use of his legs due to the alleged medical negligence of an anesthesiologist just before and during surgery that allowed the patient’s blood press[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Post-Operative Blindness And Deafness

September 9, 2015

In July 2015, a Minnesota couple filed a Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit in federal court against a local hospital system for the alleged medical negligence of the defendant’s surgeon and anesthesiologist during post-operative care of the husband that allegedly resulted in his severe i[...]

Minnesota Malpractice Case For Cancerous Pancreas Transplanted Into Patient

January 9, 2015

In an unpublished opinion released on November 29, 2014, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit involving the transplantation of a pancreas from a donor who unknowingly had cancer into a woman who subsequently cont[...]

Minneapolis VA Medical Center Under Fire For Alleged Medical Records Fraud

September 15, 2014

Two former employees of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center have alleged that they were pressured by supervisors to falsify medical records and appointment dates to hide evidence of delays in medical treatment that may have harmed VA patients. The former employees allege that were instructed to docum[...]

Minnesota Inmate Died Due To Medical Negligence

January 12, 2014

A Minnesota inmate approaching the end of his four-month incarceration due to his parole violation died as a result of medical negligence, according to a federal medical malpractice lawsuit filed by his family on January 3, 2014. The inmate had sought medical care at the prison on five occasions [...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Loss-Of-Chance In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 13, 2013

In its decision filed on May 31, 2013, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that in a medical malpractice action, a patient may recover damages when a physician’s negligence causes the patient to lose a chance of recovery or survival. The Minnesota Supreme Court held, “Because we conclude that M[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Dismisses Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Appeal

May 23, 2013

In an unreported decision filed on May 13, 2013, the Minnesota Court of Appeals (Minnesota’s intermediate appellate court) affirmed the lower court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendants due to a deficiency in the plaintiff’s expert affidavit. Th[...]

Another Minnesota Nursing Home Fails To Perform CPR, Resident Dies

March 3, 2013

In our blog for February 10, 2013 entitled, “Too Tired To Save A Life,” we reported on a Minnesota aide at a nursing home facility located in Waconia, Minnesota who failed to perform CPR on a nursing home resident on December 21, 2012, claiming that he was “too tired” to perf[...]

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