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New Jersey Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case Involving 3-Week-Old

September 17, 2025

Plaintiffs sued two hospitals, several doctors, and other medical personnel after the death of their three-week old son, alleging that defendants failed to properly evaluate, test, and treat their infant son during two emergency department visits, resulting in his death from dehydration and an undia[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Due To Defective Affidavit Of Merit

September 6, 2025

On June 1, 2018, Marc Sovelove (decedent) underwent an elective right kidney biopsy at Overlook Hospital in Summit that had been ordered by his nephrologist, defendant Dr. Sanford T. Reikes, M.D. The procedure was performed by defendant Dr. Michael Shirazi, an interventional radiologist, where a com[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Expert In Medical Malpractice Case Was Unqualified

August 10, 2025

N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-41 requires that a person executing an AOM (affidavit of merit) be licensed as a physician or other health care professional in the United States and meet detailed criteria. The statute provides that if the defendant against whom the AOM is offered is a “specialist or subspecia[...]

$3.36M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For 11 Unnecessary Surgeries On Leg

July 30, 2025

On March 28, 2025, a New Jersey woman who was left disfigured after eleven unnecessary surgeries on her left leg settled her claims against the surgeon and the surgery center where the unnecessary surgeries took place (as well as its CEO), for $3.36 million. The defendant surgeon settled the claims [...]

Lawsuit Filed Against Medical Malpractice Expert Alleges Expert “Flustered, Disoriented And Confused” Before And During His Deposition Despite Receiving $20,000 Payment For Preparation And Testimony

June 18, 2025

A lawsuit filed on April 17, 2025 in the Superior Court of New Jersey by a New Jersey medical malpractice law firm against a forensic psychiatric expert that it had retained for medical malpractice litigation alleges, in part: “Defendant Goldwaser issued a preliminary expert report dated Septe[...]

$2M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Tendon Repair Surgery

June 7, 2025

On January 21, 2025, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,040,000 in favor of a man who suffered nerve injury and required further surgery after undergoing a torn tendon repair surgery. The New Jersey medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that during the Feb[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Possible Common Law Cause Of Action For Violation Of New Jersey Declaration of Death Act

May 28, 2025

While hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, decedent Pamela Wright was declared brain dead and died shortly after defendants removed her from life-supporting devices. Plaintiff Jermaine Spence (Wright’s son) instituted suit against defendants individually and as the administrat[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Holds Non-Party In Medical Malpractice Case Should Not Be On Verdict Form, But Is Subject To Allocation Of Fault

May 1, 2025

After the death of Crystal Walcott Spill, her estate and beneficiaries brought a New Jersey wrongful death suit against doctors who treated her. Spill was under the care of Jenny T. Diep, M.D., a rheumatologist based in New York. Spillalso received unrelated care from Jacob E. Markovitz, M.D., a gyn[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Dismisses Premature Release Psychiatric Malpractice Case

April 16, 2025

The plaintiff in a New Jersey mental health malpractice case claimed that the defendants prematurely released her sister (“J.V.”) from their care after J.V. was treated for seventeen days on a voluntary admission basis for psychiatric care at the defendants’ facility. The day after[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Explains Same Specialty Medical Expert Requirement In Medical Malpractice Cases

March 8, 2025

The New Jersey Supreme Court held in its January 22, 2024 decision in a New Jersey medical malpractice case: “When a defending physician practices in more than one specialty and the treatment involved falls within any of that physician’s specialty areas, then an AOM from a physician speciali[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Common Knowledge Exception Did Not Apply In Surgical Malpractice Case

January 20, 2025

The pro se medical malpractice plaintiffs in a New Jersey medical malpractice case alleged that the defendant medical professionals deviated from the standard of care by failing to postpone surgery and obtain cardiac clearance given plaintiff’s pre-existing conditions, failing to conduct perti[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Own Testimony Doomed Her Case

January 15, 2025

Plaintiff Judy Woody appealed from the trial court’s order of judgment dismissing her New Jersey medical malpractrice complaint. Plaintiff had filed a complaint against defendants Horatio Daub, M.D. and Virtua Family Medicine Center, alleging Daub deviated from the standard of care for failing[...]

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