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$15 Million Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Undiagnosed Bacterial Infection In ER

May 28, 2026

A Tulsa County, Oklahoma medical malpractice jury recently returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million for a child who suffered permanent brain damage and will endure life-long disabilities because a bacterial infection was misdiagnosed in a hospital’s ER and was left untreated. The chil[...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Nurse Cannot Testify As To Physician Standard Of Care

May 8, 2026

A patient, who had a contrast infiltration from an IV placed in her left hand in preparation for a CT scan, brought a medical malpractice action against a hospital. The district court granted the hospital’s motion for summary judgment, holding that the patient could not prove her claim because[...]

Oklahoma Senate Trying To Reimpose Limits On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

March 28, 2025

Oklahoma Senate Bill 1065 would increase the maximum award for noneconomic losses in cases arising from a claimed bodily injury from $350,000.00 (which was determined to be unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2019) to $500,000.00, beginning November 1, 2025. SB 1065 was approved by the[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms EMTs Entitled To Qualified Immunity From Lawsuit Alleging Failure To Stabilize Patient’s Spine

November 18, 2023

Gary Schauer suffered a neck injury during an altercation outside a tavern in Ponca City, Oklahoma. When emergency medical technicians (“EMTs”) employed by Ponca City arrived on the scene, Schauer told them he could not move his left arm or his legs. The EMTs loaded Schauer into an ambulance wit[...]

Oklahoma Statute Of Limitations Precluded Levaquin Lawsuit In Oklahoma

October 2, 2023

On July 20, 2009, Angela Kester was prescribed Levaquin, an antibiotic in the fluoroquinolone family of drugs. After experiencing severe side effects, she stopped taking the medication. Her side effects persisted, however, and she has received treatment ever since for a variety of health conditions,[...]

Oklahoma Pays $1M To Settle Prison Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Claim

August 15, 2023

Oklahoma Pays $1M To Settle Prison Wrongful Death Claim: Oklahoma has agreed to pay $1,050,000 to the mother of a prison inmate who died in 2018 at the age of 21 that a federal medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit described as a “tragic and utterly unnecessary death … caused by the[...]

$82M Verdict Against Correctional Healthcare Cos. LLC For Oklahoma Jail Death

April 18, 2023

$82M Verdict Against Correctional Healthcare Company: It took just over ten years but a Tulsa Oklahoma jury determined in February 2023 that Correctional Healthcare Cos. LLC, the private for-profit correctional medical services provider that provided medical services for inmates at the Tulsa County [...]

$17.5 Million Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict

April 10, 2022

After a 4-day medical malpractice jury trial, an Oklahoma medical malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiffs after about an hour of deliberations in the total amount of $17.5 million ($14 million for the 32-year-old plaintiff who lost the use of his right leg after hernia mesh removal [...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns $465 Million Opioid Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

November 10, 2021

In its opinion issued on November 9, 2021, the the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma (“Oklahoma Supreme Court”) stated: “An opioid manufacturer appealed a $465 million verdict following a bench trial in a public nuisance lawsuit. The district court held the opioid manufacturer[...]

Oklahoma Federal Class Action Lawsuit Seeks Compensation From Hospital For Reusing Needles

February 8, 2020

A class-action lawsuit filed on January 22, 2020 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma alleges: “Between January and April of 2018, a nurse employed by [the defendant hospital] violated protocols established by the National Centers for Disease Control and Pre[...]

Oklahoma Hospital Used Contaminated Gastroscopes On 998 Patients

September 8, 2019

According to a MAUDE Adverse Event Report filed during this past summer by Hota Corporation Pentax Tokyo Office (“Pentax Medical”), “Pentax medical became aware of a report on 26-jun-2019 stating that the forward water jet channel on three customer-owned pentax medical gastroscopes[...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Holds Cap On Noneconomic Damages For Bodily Injury Claims Is Unconstitutional

April 24, 2019

In its opinion filed on April 23, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma (“Oklahoma Supreme Court”) held “the cap on actual noneconomic damages–is wrought with an irremediable constitutional infirmity: It is a special law categorically prohibited by Article 5, Secti[...]

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