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Former Baltimore Ravens Cornerback Wins North Carolina Medical Malpractice Case

September 18, 2014

Former Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle won a $650,000 North Carolina medical malpractice verdict on September 5, 2014 against an orthopedic surgery practice. The case was originally filed in 2011 and was scheduled for trial in April 2013 but the case had to be postponed when the defendant o[...]

Ophthalmologist Malpractice Lawsuit Results In $1.5M Verdict

August 27, 2014

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury found against the defendant ophthalmologist after a trial that concluded on August 19, 2014 in which it awarded the plaintiff damages in the amount of $1.5 million for the total loss of his eyesight in his left eye, for which the ophthalmologist will be [...]

North Carolina Court Of Appeals: Sudden Emergency Doctrine Inapplicable In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 12, 2014

In a North Carolina medical malpractice case it decided on July 1, 2014, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which is North Carolina’s intermediate appellate court, held that the standard of care for healthcare professionals, both at common law and as enunciated in section 90-21.12, is design[...]

North Carolina $4 Million Verdict For Nursing Malpractice

May 26, 2013

During late April 2013, a Hertford County, North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $4 million to the estate of a deceased patient of a psychiatric acute care inpatient facility who died on April 24, 2009 after going into a diabetic coma on April 13, 2009 following an insulin overdose at[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules North Carolina’s Medicaid Reimbursement Law Violates Federal Law

March 21, 2013

The federal Medicaid law provides that all U.S. States must require Medicaid beneficiaries “to assign the State any rights . . . to support (specified as support for the purpose of medical care by a court or administrative order) and to payment for medical care from any third party.” [...]

North Carolina $6 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice Leading To Death

October 25, 2012

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in excess of $6 million in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs on October 10, 2012. The medical malpractice jury found that a surgeon had left a large sponge in a woman’s abdominal cavity following surgery that led to infec[...]

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Update By The CDC

October 11, 2012

On October 10, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued an update regarding the recent fungal meningitis outbreak in which it reported that there have been 137 cases of fungal meningitis allegedly associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections in 1[...]

U.S. Supreme Court To Decide If North Carolina Medical Malpractice Law Is Valid

September 28, 2012

On September 25, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) agreed to hear and decide an appeal arising from a North Carolina medical malpractice settlement that will decide if a North Carolina law that allows recovery of funds spent on providing medical care to the poor [...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

September 8, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Claim For Rape In E.R.

July 2, 2012

A North Carolina woman has filed a medical malpractice claim against a North Carolina hospital and others for allegedly failing to protect her from being raped by a male patient she did not know who was placed in the same room with her while she was sedated. The woman was brought to the hospital a[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Medicaid Recovery Law Unconstitutional

March 28, 2012

Sometimes when there is a medical malpractice settlement, the medical malpractice claimant’s medical bills related to the medical malpractice were paid by Medicaid. Under federal law, states participating in the Medicaid program are required (with some exceptions) to seek reimbursement for me[...]

Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For medicalmalpracticelawyers.com

December 29, 2011

Today, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice cla[...]

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