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North Carolina Supreme Court Extends Medical Malpractice Liability To Nurses

August 27, 2022

In its opinion filed on August 19, 2022, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Court”) overturned 90-years of precedent to extend medical malpractice liability to nurses: “The trial court’s evidentiary ruling, and the Court of Appeals’ affirmance of it, was dictated by the appl[...]

$13.3M Maryland Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 4, 2022

$13.3M Birth Injury Verdict: A Maryland medical malpractice birth injury jury in a conservative Maryland jurisdiction (Harford County, Maryland) returned its verdict in favor of a now 18-year-old who suffered serious bleeding in his brain during his delivery in 2004. The Maryland medical malpractice[...]

$30M Georgia Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict

July 28, 2022

$30M Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict: On July 22, 2022, a Georgia medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $30 million in favor of the plaintiff in a case against a hospital and an obstetrician regarding the severe birth injuries suffered by a newborn during labor[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Perforated Rectum From Enema

May 29, 2022

The Connecticut Appellate Court held in its opinion dated February 4, 2022 that the trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to set aside the over $3 million medical malpractice verdict, finding that the plaintiffs presented sufficient expert evidence for the jury to find that nurse [...]

Kaiser Permanente Held Liable For Death Of Former Tennis Star

April 25, 2022

On February 11, 2022, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (“Kaiser Permanente”) was found by an arbitrator to be liable for the medical malpractice wrongful death of former professional tennis player Ken Flach. The arbitrator awarded Flach’s widow, Christina, and their four children $2[...]

Florida Nurse Sentenced To Six Months For Tampering With ICU Patient’s Fentanyl

April 15, 2022

On January 28, 2022, former Jacksonville, Florida ICU nurse Jerome Clampitt II was sentenced to six months in federal prison, followed by six months of home detention, for tampering with a consumer product, specifically, injectable fentanyl. Clampitt had pleaded guilty on October 27, 2021. According[...]

Nurse Convicted Of Criminal Homicide For Wrong Medication Given To Hospital Patient

March 27, 2022

On March 25, 2022, a jury found a Tennessee nurse guilty of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse for the death of a 75-year-old patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on December 27, 2017, after the nurse gave the patient the wrong medication despite warnings of the error. The patient[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Fall In Hospital Was Claim Alleging Medical Malpractice, Not Premises Liability

December 2, 2021

In its published opinion filed on November 2, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Six (“California Appellate Court”) held: “Here, the nursing staff’s judgment that appellant could use the restroom without their assistance was a [...]

Fertility Patients Sue Yale University After Nurse Stole Fentanyl And Replaced It With Saline

November 21, 2021

On November 17, 2021, seven women filed a lawsuit against Yale University for its alleged failure to safeguard the fentanyl supply at its Yale University Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility clinic in Orange, Connecticut last year which caused them to suffer unecessary, excruciating pain. The [...]

AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Report (July 2021)

July 23, 2021

AARP’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard was updated as of July 15, 2021 and tracks five categories of the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes, which has killed more than 184,000 nursing home residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The AARP Dashboard is updated [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital And Nurse In Heart Attack Medical Malpractice Case

July 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on June 16, 2021: “there is evidence suggesting that the patient warranted care his treating physician did not provide to him. Experts testified that Moss should have been placed on the Level II t[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

June 9, 2021

In its unreported opinion filed on May 26, 2021, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held: “Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to appellants, we conclude that appellants adequately prese[...]

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