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$10.8M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Routine Catheterization

September 3, 2013

On August 29, 2013, a Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded $10,831,155 to the family of a 34-year-old woman who died after a routine cardiac catheterization in February 2011. The woman left behind her husband and three children, ages 5, 9, and 11. The woman had gone to her doctor due to bronc[...]

$525,000 Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

August 19, 2013

Following a four-day jury trial and seven hours of jury deliberations that ended on August 1, 2013, a Missouri medial malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $525,000 in favor of the female plaintiff and against the defendant primary care physician who she alleged committed medical ne[...]

Missouri $6.4 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke

July 16, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $6.4 million on July 5, 2013 for a stroke the man suffered in 2007. The basis for the man’s medical malpractice lawsuit was his primary care physician’s failure to diagnosis and treat his bacterial infection that led to a str[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Treat Uninsured’s Necrotizing Fasciitis

July 4, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2013 for the disabling injuries and the substantial pain and suffering sustained by a 66-old-man who claims that a Missouri hospital emergency room failed to provide him required medical care because he did not have[...]

Missouri State Senators Looking To Harm Medical Malpractice Victims (Again)

May 2, 2013

On April 30, 2013, Missouri state senators debated proposed new legislation (House Bill 112) that would reinstate a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that the Supreme Court of Missouri had held in its July 31, 2012 decision in the Watts v. Lester E. Cox Medical Cen[...]

Missouri House Of Representatives Passes Bill To Replace Missouri’s Common Law Regarding Medical Malpractice

April 2, 2013

In our August 1, 2012 blog, we reported on the July 31, 2012 decision (modified on September 25, 2012) of the Supreme Court of Missouri that held “that section 538.210 [Missouri’s $350,000 statutory cap on noneconomic damages] is unconstitutional to the extent that it infringes on the jur[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Claim For Stillborn Baby And Mother’s Death

December 18, 2012

A medical malpractice jury is in the midst of hearing and deciding a medical malpractice case in Missouri that began last week and is expected to end sometime this week. The medical malpractice claims arise from the delivery of a stillborn on December 6, 2006 and the death of the mother 31 days la[...]

Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim After Hospital Forces Removal Of Homeless Woman From ER To Jail

November 27, 2012

On September 21, 2011, a 29-year-old homeless woman in St. Louis, Missouri went to a hospital emergency room complaining of severe pain in her legs. The emergency room staff asked her to leave the emergency room even though the woman was complaining that her leg pain was so severe that she could not[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Claim For Baby Decapitated During Birth

November 13, 2012

A Missouri couple has filed a medical malpractice claim against an obstetrician, claiming that he pulled too hard on the baby’s head while the baby was stuck in the birth canal during birth, thereby decapitating the baby. Adding to the horror is the allegation in the medical malpractice compl[...]

Missouri Vioxx Class Action Lawsuit Settled

November 5, 2012

Merck & Co. Inc. (“Merck”) has agreed to settle class action claims against it filed in Missouri regarding its former drug, Vioxx. The Missouri class action lawsuit that was filed eight years ago alleged that Merck violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act when it sold and [...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri)

September 11, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri: Arkansas Arkansas Code, 16-114-206. Burden of proof. (a) In any action for medical injury, when the asserted negligence does not lie within the jury’s co[...]

Breast Implant Surgeons Posted Patient Photos With Their Names On Their Websites

August 15, 2012

Imagine that you are a woman who goes to a breast augmentation surgeon for breast implants only to find out later that the doctor posted your before and after photos on his website where visitors to the website can easily discover your name. Well, that’s what has happened with some breas[...]

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