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$2.23 Million Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrongful Death From Sepsis

May 27, 2023

$2.23 Million Verdict For Wrongful Death From Sepsis: On April 3, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2.23 million after a five-day trial and five hours of jury deliberations, beating the defense’s top settlement offer in the amount o[...]

Nevada Plastic Surgeon Sued For Necrotizing Fasciitis After Procedure Done In His Office

December 8, 2020

A Nevada plastic surgeon with several pending medical malpractice cases against him is being sued by a 23-year-old woman who suffered scarring on 40% of her body due to necrotizing fasciitis that she alleges she acquired during procedures the plastic surgeon performed in his office. The plastic surg[...]

Florida Appellate Court Overturns Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict Because Defense Not Allowed To Present Causation Argument

July 7, 2020

In its opinion filed on May 22, 2020, the District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Florida Appellate Court”) held: “The trial court’s erroneous conclusion that USF was the sole and the initial tortfeasor in this case prevented USF from presenting its causation de[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Applies Contradictory Affidavit Rule To Deny Medical Malpractice Claim

June 2, 2020

The Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”), in its opinion filed on March 12, 2020, applied the contradictory affidavit rule in denying the medical malpractice claim of an Iowa woman who had to have an arm and eight toes amputated due to necrotizing fasciitis that she claimed the d[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Loss Of Household Services Claim In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

November 3, 2019

In its reported opinion dated November 1, 2019, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, discussed what is necessary to prove a loss of household services claim in a medical malpractice wrongful death case. A Ma[...]

$600K California Medical Malpractice Settlement For Flesh Eating Bacteria Death

April 21, 2017

In February 2017, a Santa Barbara, California hospital reportedly settled a California medical malpractice wrongful death claim by paying $600,000 to the family of a 43-year-old woman who died five years ago as a result of necrotizing fasciitis (better known as flesh eating bacteria) that the hospit[...]

Appellate Court Affirms Colorado Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

December 31, 2014

In an unpublished opinion filed on December 24, 2014, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a Colorado medical malpractice defense verdict, finding that any error in the jury instructions regarding comparative negligence and mitigation of damages that were given by the trial judge was harmless erro[...]

Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled For Limbs Lost To Flesh-Eating Bacteria

September 9, 2013

On September 5, 2013, a Massachusetts woman who had all four of her limbs amputated after she contracted flesh-eating bacteria while giving birth at a local Massachusetts hospital settled her medical malpractice lawsuit for $9.5 million. The 41-year-old woman alleged in her medical malpractice [...]

$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 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[...]

Tennessee $7.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Necrotizing Fasciitis

September 3, 2012

On August 3, 2012, after a 15-day medical malpractice jury trial in Tennessee, a medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,816,740 in favor of a now-20-year-old man whose cut on his knee due to a fall onto an exposed nail in 2004 when he was 12-years-old was improperly trea[...]

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