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AMA Votes To Fund Studies Comparing Care From Physicians Versus Nurse Practitioners (NPs) And Physician Assistants (PAs)

August 25, 2026

On June 9, 2026, the AMA House of Delegates, concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, voted to fund independent studies that compare outcomes. The studies will look at patient[...]

$1.25M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Nurse Practitioner’s Delayed Diagnose Of Endometrial Cancer

February 19, 2025

On October 30, 2024, a Massachusetts medical malpractice lawsuit against a nurse practitioner who allegedly negligently delayed the diagnosis of endometrial cancer in a 55-year-old patient was resolved during meditation after the woman’s primary care physician had been deposed. The amount of t[...]

Is My Doctor Responsible For Their Nurse Practitioner’s Malpractice?

January 20, 2025

In many states, nurse practitioners (NPs) are required to be supervised by physicians: however, twenty-seven states have eliminated the requirement that NPs be supervised by physicians (for example, Kansas (since 2022), New York (since 2022), and Utah (since 2023) no longer require supervision for a[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Claim Involving Nurse Practitioner

April 22, 2024

Background Facts In June 2019, Steven John Ahearn (decedent) underwent a surgical procedure called a lumbar laminectomy. During this procedure, the surgeon, who was not a party to the Michigan medical malpractice case, placed a drain tube in decedent to allow for the drainage of postoperative fluids[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Due To Unsigned Affidavit

August 8, 2023

Missouri Medical Malpractice Law Court Affirms Dismissal Of Case Due To Unsigned Affidavit: Section 538.225, which governs the requirements for filing medical malpractice claims, states: “In any action against a health care provider for damages for personal injury or death on account of the re[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Rules Nurse And Nurse Practitioner Are Members Of The Same Profession

June 30, 2023

Nurse And Nurse Practitioner Are Members Of The Same Profession: Christopher Bryant filed a Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit in which he alleged that on February 26, 2019, he went to the emergency department at Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital for pain he was experiencing after being involved [...]

$18 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer In 22-Year-old

July 27, 2022

$18 Million Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer: After a two-week trial that ended on July 22, 2022, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $18 million in favor of a now 26-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undiagnosed because her health care provider [...]

Former Tennessee Clinic Owner Sentenced for Opioid Distribution

April 3, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on January 21, 2022 that a former nurse practitioner and clinic owner was sentenced in the Eastern District of Tennessee to 168 months in prison and $700 in special assessments, followed by three years of supervised released, for illegally distributi[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Discusses Effect Of Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy On His Medical Malpractice Case

December 5, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated October 15, 2020: “it is undisputed that plaintiffs claimed an exemption for this medical malpractice claim when they filed their petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without obje[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Finds No Fraudulent Concealment, Applies Statute Of Repose To Medical Malpractice Claim

June 6, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 11, 2020 in a Tennessee medical malpractice case, “Based on the undisputed facts, we conclude that Ms. Tucker’s claims against these defendants are barred by the statut[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Nurse Practitioner With Regard To Timeliness Of Medical Malpractice Claim

December 14, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated November 21, 2019, reversed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant nurse practitioner (“NP”), finding that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to w[...]

New Study Finds Medical Malpractice Allegations Against Nurse Practitioners Similar To Physicians

April 2, 2018

A recent study entitled “Nurse Practitioner Closed Claims Study” involving 67 closed medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners (“NP”) from January 2011 through December 2016 that was published by The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractic[...]

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