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Las Vegas Delayed CPR Brain Damage Medical Malpractice Case Settled During Jury Deliberations

December 22, 2019

A Las Vegas, Nevada medical malpractice jury was in the middle of deliberations when the parties reached a settlement in the Nevada medical malpractice lawsuit that sought $63 million in compensatory damages for a woman who claimed that she suffered serious permanent brain damage because the hospita[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case For Consideration Of Ordinary Negligence Claims

November 6, 2019

By Order dated October 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) stated: “The district court concluded that the deficiency in Dolorfino’s [plaintiff’s] medical malpractice claim rendered her entire complaint void ab initio and dismissed[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Rules Hospital May Be Liable For Physician’s Medical Negligence Under Theory Of Ostensible Agency

January 7, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 28, 2017 that while the general rule of vicarious liability is that an employer is liable for the negligence of its employee but not the negligence of an independent contractor, an exc[...]

$14.5M Nevada Medical Malpractice Verdict For Premature Baby’s Brain Damage After Delivery

December 15, 2016

A Nevada medical malpractice jury has returned its verdict in the amount of $14.5 million against two doctors, finding that their negligence led to a premature baby suffering permanent brain damage after she was born. The now 8-year-old is almost totally blind, is unable to walk, unable to speak, r[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds That Scope Of Informed Consent Is A Medical Malpractice Claim And Therefore Requires A Medical Expert’s Affidavit

August 2, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held that in a medical malpractice claim, allegations raising the scope of informed consent rather than the absence of consent to a medical procedure, even when pleaded as a battery [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Allows Patient Dumping Lawsuit To Proceed

May 30, 2016

In its Order filed on May 19, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) refused to order the trial court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a former patient of a state-run psychiatric hospital, which lawsuit was filed on his own behalf and on behalf of former p[...]

Las Vegas Nursing Home Sued for Neglect/Abuse Leading To Death

February 21, 2016

A Las Vegas nursing home is being sued for the alleged abuse and neglect of an 89-year-old resident who told a nurse at the nursing home on May 20, 2014 to call the police, after which he pointed to his knee and stated, “the therapist.” No one called the police that day but the severe[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court Decision That Cap On Medical Malpractice Damages Is Unconstitutional

October 3, 2015

In its opinion filed on October 1, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held that NRS 41A.035, which limits to $350,000 the amount of noneconomic damages that may be awarded in Nevada medical malpractice cases, is constitutional and applies per [...]

Nevada Urologist Faces Two Medical Malpractice Lawsuits In Six Months

August 19, 2015

A widow in Nevada filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a Las Vegas, Nevada urologist on July 24, 2015, alleging that the urologist’s medical negligence led to her husband’s death. The Nevada medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the defendant urologist had failed[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Discusses Medical Monitoring Claims In Medical Malpractice Cases

January 30, 2015

In its decision filed on December 31, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held that a plaintiff may state a cause of action for negligence with medical monitoring as the remedy without asserting that he or she has suffered a present physical injury, n[...]

Nevada Hepatitis C Outbreak Claims Coming To A Close

November 23, 2014

There was a massive outbreak of hepatitis C in Nevada in 2007 that was associated with allegedly unsafe practices at endoscopy centers owned by a now-jailed doctor. Many patients of the endoscopy centers alleged in their medical malpractice lawsuits that they contracted the serious and potentially[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case

September 23, 2014

In its decision dated September 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) reinstated a Nevada medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court because the plaintiff’s expert affidavit attached to her medical malpractice complai[...]

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