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$4M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed For Death Of 15-Month-Old Child Who Ingested A Button Battery

November 8, 2025

On November 19, 2014, 15-month-old Alex Clinkscales died after a button battery eroded through his esophagus. His parents, individually and as the administrators of his estate, filed their Georgia medical malpractice action against the boy’s pediatrician, Dr. Susan McWhirter, and her pediatric pra[...]

$3.45M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Profound Hearing Loss In Toddler

June 1, 2025

A Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded a young child $3.45 million against the pediatrician who was his doctor from birth to age five, for the pediatrician’s failure to diagnose his severe-profound sensorineural hearing loss despite the child exhibiting significant speech delays that[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms New Trial For Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Where Defense Expert Changed Testimony At Trial

January 14, 2024

The parents of Z.R. brought a Missouri medical malpractice action asserting that the defendants negligently failed to evaluate and treat her bilateral hip dysplasia when she was an infant. Hip dysplasia is most often diagnosed while the child is a newborn. Pavlik harnesses are commonly prescribed to[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Failure To Test Newborn’s Blood Sugar Level Before Discharge Malpractice Case

November 28, 2023

David Breymeier was born March 21, 2000, weighing five pounds, six ounces, slightly small for his gestational age, like the oldest of the parents’ other children, but healthy with excellent Apgar scores. A little less than an hour after birth, however, David was observed by hospital staff to h[...]

New York Lyme Disease Lawsuit

June 21, 2023

A Verified Complaint filed on March 29, 2021 in the Superior Court of the State of New York County of Bronx alleged, in part: On or about May of 2013 infant plaintiff J.B. was under the medical care, diagnoses and treatment of defendants VERONICA SANTILLI, M.D., BELA REYNGOLD, M.D., and GALINA SLOOT[...]

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[...]

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