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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Allows Orthopedic Surgeon To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case Against Podiatrist

April 15, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 30, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s dismissal of a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case filed against a podiatrist, holding that the plaintiff’s orthopedic expert was qualified to testify a[...]

$2.39M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Post-Surgery Fall

February 25, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury recently returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.39 million after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations. The twelve-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded the woman $800,000 for her past non-economic l[...]

Man Who Contracted Mold Infection In Pennsylvania Hospital Has Died

February 10, 2016

A 70-year-old transplant patient who had contracted a fungal infection from mold while he was a patient in a Pennsylvania hospital has died. The man, who was the fourth patient to have become infected with mold last year while a patient at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMCR[...]

PA Superior Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict: When A Win Is A Loss

January 15, 2016

On January 6, 2016, in a non-precedential decision, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Court”) affirmed the trial court’s denial of the plaintiffs’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and their motion for a new trial, finding that the trial court properly deter[...]

$1.4M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Rare Cancer

December 27, 2015

On October 28, 2015, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.4 million in a failure to diagnosis cancer case. The plaintiff alleged that his rare form of cancer (osteosarcoma) in his right knee remained negligently undiagnosed f[...]

$4.2M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation

December 22, 2015

A Philadelphia medical malpractice jury found in favor of a woman whose leg had to be amputated following double knee replacement surgery after she developed a serious infection that was allegedly improperly diagnosed and treated. The $4.3 million medical malpractice verdict includes $2.13 million [...]

Claim Against Pennsylvania Hospital For NTM Infection Linked To Heart Bypass Machines With Heater-Cooler Devices

December 16, 2015

On November 30, 2015, a husband and wife filed a notice of medical negligence claim against a Pennsylvania hospital regarding the husband’s open heart surgery in November 2013 that allegedly resulted in him contracting a very serious bacterial infection due to an allegedly unclean device [...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Sued For Medical Malpractice, Altered Medical Records

December 15, 2015

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a Pennsylvania hospital alleges that the defendant hospital and its staff altered her husband’s medical records, citing the six sets o[...]

$3M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

November 30, 2015

On November 13, 2015, a Jefferson County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million for past and future noneconomic damages in favor of a woman whose lung cancer went undiagnosed for four years due to alleged medical negligence by two physicians who were [...]

$10.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Misdiagnosed Bacterial Meningitis

November 27, 2015

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 6-year-old boy and against defendant Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”) for the serious injuries the boy suffered when he was 11 months old allegedly due to CHOP’s failure to timely diag[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Decision Discusses Medical Malpractice Vicarious Liability And Corporate Negligence

November 14, 2015

In an opinion issued on April 28, 2015, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania determined that the medical malpractice plaintiff had properly pled vicarious liability and corporate negligence as causes of action against the medical malpractice defendants (a hospital and a health care system). The Alleg[...]

PA Supreme Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

November 11, 2015

In its opinion filed on October 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“the Court”) upheld the lower court’s refusal to enforce a nursing home arbitration agreement because the arbitration agreement expressly relied, as part of an essential term, upon the Na[...]

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