Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 15 of 21

$625K Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Undiagnosed Mini Stroke

October 4, 2016

On September 22, 2016, a 12-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after a four-day trial and three days of jury deliberations. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found that the defendant emergency room physician was negligent in his treatm[...]

$11.8M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prison Inmate’s Suicide

September 27, 2016

A federal jury in Pennsylvania recently found that the defendant prison health care provider, the defendant prison physician, and the defendant prison nurses were not only medically negligent but were also deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs that led to his suicide in his p[...]

$4.25M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Of Twins Due To Eclampsia

September 12, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuit filed against physicians who provided prenatal care to a pregnant woman was recently settled for a reported $4.25 million payment to the plaintiff. In an opinion filed on August 18, 2016 by a state court judge in Pennsylvania, the judge gave the defendants [...]

$70M Risperdal Verdict

July 25, 2016

On July 1, 2016, a Philadelphia jury returned its verdict in the amount of $70 million against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which manufactures the antipsychotic medication Risperdal. The Philadelphia verdict is the largest verdict so far in the mass tort litigation involving Risperdal claims that [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Smoker’s Lung Cancer Death

June 24, 2016

On June 8, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant doctor, after only a short period of jury deliberations following a medical malpractice trial that lasted a little over one week, finding that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant [...]

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Worker Charged With Abusing Elderly Resident

June 10, 2016

A 28-year-old employee of a Pennsylvania nursing home was arrested on May 19, 2016 and charged with misdemeanor criminal charges alleging neglect of care of a dependent person, reckless endangering another person, simple assault, and harassment. The nursing home worker was released from custody afte[...]

$7.7M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Pulmonary Embolism

June 6, 2016

On May 20, 2016, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the estate of a 50-year-old woman who died due to undiagnosed and untreated pulmonary emboli after being negligently treated by the defendant doctor at the defendant hospital. The Philadelphia medical malpracti[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Missed Hernia Led To Man’s Death

May 27, 2016

A medical malpractice case filed against a Pennsylvania hospital and others alleges that the negligent failure of at least five doctors to properly assess the medical condition of a man who came to the hospital’s emergency room complaining of constipation and abdominal pain led to his death ni[...]

$5M Pennsylvania Hospital Malpractice Verdict For Misplaced Feeding Tube Leading to Death

May 24, 2016

On May 13, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death plaintiffs and against the defendant hospital and radiology practice in the amount of $5 million, which included $1.5 million for the wrongful death claims a[...]

$6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For CT Scan Mix-Up

May 14, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on April 28, 2016 in the amount of nearly $6 million in favor of a woman who underwent unnecessary abdominal surgery after a radiologist read another patient’s CT scan images as the woman’s scan, thereby resulting in the misdia[...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Affirms $3M Topamax Award

May 12, 2016

In its non-precedential decision filed on May 11, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Superior Court”) affirmed a $3 million Pennsylvania jury verdict in favor of the parents of a child born with a cleft lip and palate that the plaintiffs alleged were due to defendant Janssen[...]

$44.1M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict Involving Heparin

April 29, 2016

On April 27, 2016, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $44.1 million, after thirteen days of trial and nearly seven hours of jury deliberations over the course of two days. The plaintiff had suffered a catastrophic brain bleed alleg[...]

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