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$6.1M Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 19-Year-Old In ER

April 6, 2019

An Oklahoma medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs on March 21, 2019, awarding the family of a 19-year-old who died as a result of hospital medical malpractice in the emergency room $6,190,000 for the teenager’s wrongful death. The Underlying Facts While attending college du[...]

$25.5M Verdict Against Aetna For Bad Faith Denial Of Cancer Treatment

November 26, 2018

A jury in Oklahoma awarded $25.5 million ($15.5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages) to the family of a woman who died from brain cancer, for Aetna’s bad faith in denying her health insurance coverage for cancer treatment, finding that Aetna acted recklessly in [...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Holds (Again) Certificate Of Merit Requirement In Medical Malpractice Cases Is Unconstitutional

October 27, 2017

In its decision dated October 24, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma (“Oklahoma Supreme Court”) held that “the thrice incarnated affidavit of merit requirement found in Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 19.1 (Supp. 2013)” with regard to Oklahoma medical malpractice cases [...]

Oklahoma Joins Other U.S. States Suing Opioid Manufacturers For The Harm Opioids Have Caused To Its Citizens

September 22, 2017

On June 30, 2017, Oklahoma’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit in state court against four of the nation’s leading manufacturers of opioid pain medication (Purdue Pharma, Allergan, Cephalon, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals), claiming that the effects of the defendants’ deceptive marketing [...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Says Informed Consent Requires Disclosure Of Non-Doctor’s Participation In Surgery

July 21, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma (“Oklahoma Supreme Court”) held its in opinion filed on June 20, 2017 that the doctrine of informed consent requires a physician to obtain the patient’s consent before using a non-doctor to perform significant portions of a surgery for whi[...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Case

June 11, 2017

In its decision filed on May 16, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma (“Oklahoma Supreme Court”) reversed summary judgment granted to the Oklahoma medical malpractice defendants by the trial court, finding that the plaintiffs had raised a question of fact by their summary[...]

Oklahoma Nursing Home Sued For Alleged Sexual Assault On Resident

July 26, 2016

On July 20, 2016, a former resident of an Oklahoma nursing home filed a lawsuit against the nursing home seeking monetary damages for sexual assault that she suffered at the hands of its former employee. The plaintiff is one of four nursing home residents who were allegedly sexually assaulted by the[...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Informed Consent Doctrine Applies To Nonsurgical/Noninvasive Medical Treatment

May 7, 2016

In the case it was deciding, the plaintiff had swallowed a small nail on June 1, 2009 and went to a hospital’s emergency room where the defendant ER physician examined her and ordered an X-ray that showed a foreign body in her stomach, just below her diaphragm. The plaintiff was discharged wi[...]

Oklahoma Family Seeks Injunction Against Physician Group Terminating Care Of Birth Injured Child

October 11, 2015

After the parents of a child who suffered severe brain damage during delivery in November 2011 filed an Oklahoma medical malpractice lawsuit in October 2014 against the physicians and others allegedly responsible for the child’s injuries, the medical practice that employed the medical malpr[...]

Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Insurer To Be Sold To Berkshire Hathaway

July 14, 2015

The Oklahoma State Medical Association has agreed to sell Oklahoma’s top medical malpractice insurer, PLICO Inc., to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, under undisclosed terms. PLICO justifies its sale to the much larger MedPro Group by stating that the sale furthers its desire to exp[...]

Federal Appeals Court Affirms District Court’s Refusal To Amend Medical Malpractice Pretrial Order

March 11, 2015

In a federal appellate court decision filed on February 10, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the district court’s refusal to allow a medical malpractice defendant to amend a final pretrial order after the other medical malpractice defendants settled the c[...]

$1.2M Oklahoma Nursing Home Verdict For Abuse Of Resident Caught On Video

February 23, 2015

On February 13, 2015, a federal jury in Oklahoma found in favor of the plaintiff in a nursing home abuse case and awarded $1.2 million in compensatory damages for emotional distress and an additional $10,000 in punitive damages. The case involved the abuse of a 96-year-old nursing home resident who[...]

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