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Wrong-Side Surgery Defendant Claims PREP Act Immunity

June 1, 2021

A Missouri spine surgeon who was sued for medical malpractice in January 2021 has responded that he is immune from the medical malpractice lawsuit pursuant to the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) that was activated to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The defendant spine su[...]

Mizzou BioJoint Settlements Announced

April 30, 2021

The University of Missouri has reportedly settled personal injury and false advertising lawsuits filed from 2018 through 2020 that allege that the “BioJoint” surgeries pioneered by two university employees, orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Stannard and veterinarian Dr. James Cook, which involved[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Affirms Punitive Damages Award In Medical Malpractice Case

March 4, 2021

In its opinion filed on March 2, 2021, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed a Missouri medical malpractice jury’s award in favor of the plaintiff in the amounts of $269,780.80 for economic damages, $300,000 for noneconomic damages, and $300,000 for aggravating circumstances damages (punitive [...]

Iowa Federal Jury Awards $3.5M In Defective Artificial Hip Claim (After $20M Missouri Hip Implant Verdict)

December 14, 2020

On November 20, 2020, an Iowa federal jury awarded $3.5 million ($1.05 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages) to a woman who claimed that her Biomet M2a Magnum metal hip implant caused microscopic particles to shed from the implant requiring that she have revision surg[...]

Missouri’s Authorized Electronic Monitoring In Long-Term Care Facilities Act

October 19, 2020

Missouri’s Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act (“Act”) became effective on August 28, 2020. The Act gives residents of long-term care facilities in Missouri (Missouri nursing homes) the right to place electronic monitoring devices in their rooms. Secti[...]

Missouri Federal Court Does Not Allow Affirmative Defense Of Comparative Fault In Medical Malpractice Case

September 24, 2020

The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division (“Federal Court”) held in its Order dated August 14, 2020: “In sum, on the facts, law, and arguments presented here, Mr. Campbell’s pre-treatment conduct and his medical conditions as described[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Holds Gynecological Medical Malpractice Case Filed Too Late

May 23, 2020

The Supreme Court of Missouri en banc (“Missouri Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 31, 2020: “the uncontroverted material facts are that the necessity that gave rise to Dr. Meddows-Jackson’s duty of continuing care ceased when the treatment for cyst removal and r[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Judgment Reduced From $12.8 M To $9.6M

May 11, 2020

A Missouri medical malpractice jury had awarded $12,820,990 to a 57-year-old man in his Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors and others for the injuries the man sustained that the jury determined in November 2017 were due to medical negligence in failing to timely diagnose and tr[...]

Missouri Supreme Court En Banc Remands Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Claim Of Negligent Credentialing

April 28, 2020

In its opinion dated December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) held: “Without evidence showing a reasonable investigation into the surgeon’s background and qualifications would have revealed he was unqualified to perform laparoscopic cholecystect[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case For Determination Of Plaintiffs’ Negligent Credentialing Claim

January 6, 2020

Missouri Supreme Court Affirms That Medical Malpractice Fraudulent Concealment Claims Were Time Barred

January 5, 2020

The December 10, 2019 opinion of the Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed a lower court ruling that the Missouri medical malpractice plaintiffs’ fraudulent concealment claims against the defendant health care providers were time barred because the facts upon which they now rely to show fraud wer[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Upholds $12.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failire To Timely Diagnose Mesenteric Ischemia

October 14, 2019

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Four (“Missouri Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on October 1, 2019, affirmed a Missouri medical malpractice jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $14,245,545 that was reduced to $12,820,990 because the jury[...]

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