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$6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failing To Order MRIs In Undiagnosed Liver Cancer Case

April 1, 2018

A Philadelphia medical malpractice jury took two-and-a-half hours after a six-day trial that ended on March 6, 2018 to award the estate of a 65-year-old man who died of late-diagnosed liver cancer and his surviving wife the total sum of $6 million. The Philadelphia medical malpractice jury allocated[...]

$5.7M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Failure To Diagnose Suicide Risk

March 27, 2018

Earlier this month, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $215,000 for economic damages and $5.5 million for noneconomic damages (pain and suffering) against a hospital that allegedly failed to properly diagnose and treat a suicidal p[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $5M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrongful Death Caused By Misplaced Feeding Tube

February 24, 2018

In its opinion filed on January 30, 2018, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) affirmed a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s award in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.5 million for the wrongful death claim and $3.5 million for the consc[...]

$40M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

February 3, 2018

On January 23, 2018, after more than two weeks of trial, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 6-year-old girl who suffered catastrophic injuries during birth that left her paralyzed below her chest due to a spinal injury. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Resurrects Legal Malpractice Case Against Medical Malpractice Lawyer

January 18, 2018

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 4, 2018 that the trial court manifestly abused its discretion in denying the plaintiffs’ continuance motion in their legal malpractice case against their former medical malpract[...]

$250,000 Pennsylvania Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Death Of 85-Year-Old Resident

December 24, 2017

A Pennsylvania nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $250,000 on December 9, 2017, following a one-week trial and five hours of deliberations. The deceased resident’s family had alleged in their Pennsylvania nursing home negligence lawsui[...]

$1M Pennsylvania Jury Verdict Against Nursing Home For Resident’s Fractures From Falls Due To Inadequate Staffing

December 22, 2017

A Pennsylvania nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1 million, which included $750,000 in punitive damages, against a Pennsylvania nursing home operator and others, for the fractures suffered by a resident as a result of multiple falls that were allegedly due to the nu[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Applies Two-Year Statute Of Limitations From Date Of Death In Nursing Home Death Case

December 10, 2017

In a case decided on November 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Eastern District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held that Section 513(d) of MCARE establishes a two-year statute of limitations for medical professional liability cases in the form of wrongful death or survival act[...]

$27.8M Xarelto Verdict

December 7, 2017

On December 5, 2017, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical liability jury returned its verdict in the amount of $27.8 million in favor of a husband and wife regarding the wife’s internal bleeding allegedly caused by her use of the prescription blood-thinning medication Xarelto (rivaroxaban). The jury [...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Quest Diagnostic’s Standard Operating Procedures Are Confidential In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 25, 2017

In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleges that Quest Diagnostics misdiagnosed the decedent’s cancer, the non-precedential decsion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) filed on October 3, 2917 stated: “the evide[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Discusses Jury Bias In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

November 6, 2017

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in its non-precedential decision filed on October 6, 2017, affirmed the defense verdict entered in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case where a juror was employed by a company that did business with doctors and therapists who had privileges at the defendant hos[...]

$51.7M Philadelphia Pelvic Mesh Verdict

October 1, 2017

On September 7, 2017, a Philadelphia pelvic mesh jury returned its verdict n favor of the plaintiff and against defendant Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in the total amount of $51.7 million, which included $7.1 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages. The[...]

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