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$1.4M New Hampshire Testicular Cancer Malpractice Verdict

April 7, 2026

A New Hampshire medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a Vermont man who alleged in his New Hampshire medical malpractice lawsuit that the defendant, John Seigne, M.D., was medically negligent in treating him for testicular cancer. The man began receiving treatment for urologic an[...]

New Hampshire Department Of Justice Calls For Greater Transparency For Board Of Medicine

July 17, 2023

Calls For Greater Transparency For Board Of Medicine: The New Hampshire Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reviewed the practices and procedures of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine (“BOM”) during the two-plus decade period from approximately 1994 through 2019 (the “Review[...]

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson To Settle Opioid Claims

December 13, 2022

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson: The New Hampshire Attorney General announced on September 1, 2022 that a settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals/Johnson & Johnson was reached to settle the state’s opioid claims against the company. The company has[...]

New Hampshire Supreme Court Affirms Mental Health Patient’s Rights Were Violated

June 3, 2021

In its opinion dated May 11, 2021, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire (“New Hampshire Supreme Court”) stated: “The plain and ordinary meaning of RSA 135-C:28, I, RSA 135-C:29, I, RSA 135-C:29-a, and RSA 135-C:31, I, read in light of the purpose of RSA chapter 135-C and in the conte[...]

New Hampshire Supreme Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case That Had Been Dismissed Due To Judicial Estoppel

January 20, 2019

In its opinion filed on December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire (“New Hampshire Supreme Court”) held: “the trial court erred in dismissing the medical malpractice claim against the defendants on the basis of judicial estoppel. That claim belongs to the bankruptcy esta[...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Doctors Failed To Diagnose Pill Lodged In Patient’s Throat, Leading to Death

April 29, 2017

A recently filed New Hampshire medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the multiple defendant doctors failed to diagnose that an 80-year-old woman had a pill lodged in her throat despite numerous visits to her medical providers, allowing the pill to burn a hole into her pulmonary artery, causing[...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Case Alleges 13-Year-Old Died From Undiagnosed Brain Tumor

February 8, 2017

A New Hampshire medical malpractice lawsuit filed on January 17, 2017 against a New Hampshire hospital, three physicians, and other health care providers allege that the plaintiffs’ 13-year-old daughter died on May 7, 2016 after being removed from life support after suffering irreversible[...]

$5M New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ophthalmologist For Blindness

December 12, 2016

A New Hampshire medical malpractice jury awarded just under $4.7 million to a 67-year-old woman who suffered blindness as a result of alleged negligent medical treatment of her age-related wet form of macular degeneration by the defendant ophthalmologist. The jury also awarded $350,000 to her husban[...]

New Hampshire ER Misdiagnosed Disabled Man’s Neck Fracture – Twice

December 19, 2015

The family of a severely disabled nonverbal New Hampshire man is demanding answers for why their severely disabled relative’s neck fracture was misdiagnosed by a local hospital’s ER, twice, leading to his unnecessary agonizing pain. The man was no stranger to the New Hampshire hospital [...]

Federal Judge Orders $21.4M Judgment In Favor Of The Plaintiff In VA Medical Malpractice Case

April 12, 2015

A federal judge in New Hampshire entered an order on April 3, 2015, finding in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in his Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States for the negligent medical care he received at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Ham[...]

The Failure Of New Hampshire’s Medical Malpractice Screening Panels

February 14, 2014

In 2005, New Hampshire lawmakers created medical malpractice screening panels consisting of a doctor, a lawyer, and a retired judge who initially determine medical malpractice claims in an effort to reduce medical malpractice litigation costs and to control the rising costs of medical malprac[...]

New Hampshire Effort To Modify Unfair Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

October 30, 2013

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee recently voted 9 to 7 to support changing New Hampshire’s “early offer” law in medical malpractice claims that health care lobbyists pushed through the New Hampshire Legislature in 2012. Despite the New Hampshire Governor’s veto[...]

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