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Former Maryland Pediatrician Found Incompetent To Face 98 Criminal Charges Of Sexual Offenses Involving Juveniles

July 30, 2021

In a written opinion released on July 7, 2021, Frederick Circuit Court Judge Julie Stevenson Solt ruled that Ernesto Cesar Torres, age 70, of Frederick, Maryland is incompetent to stand trial. In December 2019, Dr. Ernesto Torres was charged with ninety-eight counts of sexual offenses against ninete[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Graphic Photo Shown To Jury Pool

November 2, 2020

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its Per Curiam opinion filed on September 2, 2020 that showing the jury pool a graphic photo of a toddler in the ICU in a medical malpractice case involving the infant’s death allegedly cause[...]

Study Finds Medical Malpractice Claims Against Pediatricians Are Decreasing

June 29, 2020

A study entitled “Trends in Pediatric Malpractice Claims 1987–2015: Results From the Periodic Survey of Fellows” published in March 2020 in the journal Pediatrics found: “From 1987 to 2015, the proportion of pediatricians sued has decreased and median indemnity has remained uncha[...]

Maryland Pediatrician Sentenced To One Year Incarceration For Sexually Abusing Patient, Faces Many Additional Charges For Other Patients

January 31, 2020

On November 1, 2019, a long-time Maryland pediatrician was convicted of second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense of an 18-year-old patient who had been his patient since she was a baby. The 69-year-old Maryland pediatrician was found not guilty of second-degree rape, reportedly because[...]

Federal Medical Malpractice Jury In Pennsylvania Clears Defendants In Death Of Newborn

October 21, 2019

On September 5, 2019, a federal medical malpractice jury in Pennsylvania returned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that the medical negligence of a pediatrician and a Pennsylvania hospital led to a newborn’s death from an infection six hours after birth. The eigh[...]

Study Of Pediatric Medical Malpractice Claims

April 1, 2019

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, analyzed 1,215 written demands for payment (medical malpractice claims) filed on behalf of pediatric patients that closed from 2008 through 2017. The study included all medical malpractice cla[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Defendants Suffer Loss Of Defenses In Botched Circumcision Case

July 26, 2018

A Georgia judge has struck the defenses of some of the defendants in a Georgia medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendants negligently performed a circumcision on her 18-day-old son, because the defendants failed to preserve crutial evidence despite being on notice th[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Overturns $10M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 7, 2018

On May 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Alabama overturned a $10 million medical malpractice verdict, concluding that “the facts related to the jury regarding prior acts and omissions by WBMC [the defendant hospital] were entirely irrelevant for the purpose of curative admissibility, were highly[...]

Florida Supreme Court Discusses Physician Treatment Rule In Narrowly Affirming Medical Malpractice Verdict

April 24, 2018

In its 4-to-3 decision filed on March 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) affirmed the final judgment in the amount of $4,101,476 in favor of the Florida medical malpractice plaintiffs. The lower appellate court had affirmed the trial court’s denial of the [...]

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert Qualified To Give Her Opinions

April 5, 2018

In its opinion filed on February 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) ruled that the circuit court abused its discretion when it refused to qualify the Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff’s only proposed expert witness under Code § 8.01-581.20. In a ca[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Baby Born With Herpes

February 13, 2018

On January 29, 2018, an Oregon medical malpractice jury found in favor of the defendant OB/GYN in a medical malpractice case in which the 25-year-old plaintiff alleged that the defendant OB/GYN was medically negligent in failing to order a test for herpes when the pregnant woman was examined by the [...]

Oregon Supreme Court Recognizes Wrongful Birth Claim, Rejects Wrongful Life Claim

February 10, 2018

In its opinion dated February 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Oregon Supreme Court”) recognized wrongful birth claims but rejected wrongful life claims in Oregon, thereby affirming the lower appellate court’s decision. In the case the Oregon Supreme Court was de[...]

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