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$6.6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Heroin Addict Paralyzed By Hospital Negligence

March 21, 2015

On March 11, 2015, after five days of trial and two days of jury deliberations, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury found a local hospital responsible for a man’s permanent paralysis following his discharge from its Emergency Department in 2010. The man was a heroin addict when he went to[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Newborn’s Brachial Plexus Injury

January 18, 2015

A woman was 22 years old when she gave birth to her second child, a son, in June 2012 (her first baby was a girl, who was born healthy following a normal vaginal delivery). The woman’s second child suffered serious and permanent birth injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence dur[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Melanoma Medical Malpractice Case

December 9, 2014

On December 5, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in a non-precedential decision, affirmed a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice defendants in a case where the defendant physician acknowledged that he had breached the standard of care but denied that the breach caused injury to the[...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Overturns $19.5M Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 29, 2014

By its decision dated November 9, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Superior Court”) overturned a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $19.5 million involving the death of the plaintiff’s wife from complications followin[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Weighs Eliminating Informed Consent Defense In Medical Malpractice Cases

November 24, 2014

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) is weighing whether to eliminate informed consent as a defense in strictly medical malpractice cases, acknowledging that patients do not consent to negligent medical treatment. On November 18, 2014, the Pennsylvania Supr[...]

Pennsylvania Trial Court Finds Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Unconscionable

October 19, 2014

In his October 3, 2014 written opinion, a Pennsylvania trial judge held that a nursing home’s arbitration agreement was unconscionable because the agreement was so one-sided, violated public policy, was misleading, was confusing, and that some of the provisions were overreaching. The arbitra[...]

Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Dangerous Drug Combination

August 26, 2014

A patient at a Philadelphia health center has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the health center, three physicians at the health center, a physician’s assistant employed by the health center, and a pharmacy, accusing each of them of medical negligence in prescribing her a combinati[...]

Pennsylvania Verdict Against Nursing Home For Compensatory And Punitive Damages Upheld

August 1, 2014

On July 31, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Superior Court”) upheld a verdict from August 2012 against a nursing home and the health care network that controlled the nursing home for both compensatory and punitive damages that totaled $2,287,601. The jury found that the def[...]

$3.34M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Perforated Bowel

July 15, 2014

A Philadelphia County medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a 27-year-old man in the amount of $3.34 million after determining that a hospital and a physician were medically negligent in their failure to timely diagnose the man’s perforated bowel following surgery to address [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Battery Case

June 13, 2014

It is not often that a medical malpractice case alleges that a battery was committed by a medical provider due to the fact that the medical provider usually obtains the prior consent of the patient before performing particular medical procedure(s) on the patient (a “battery” may be defin[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict Overturned For Lack Of Proper Expert Testimony

February 12, 2014

On February 7, 2014, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Superior Court”) overturned a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The jury had awarded damages in the amount of $365,500 to the plaintiff in her capacity as the executrix of her decea[...]

$32.8M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Verdict For Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy

February 5, 2014

On January 17, 2014, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs and against two nurses who were the defendants whom the jurors determined to have been negligent in failing to alert the doctor performing the delivery of a baby that the baby’s heart rate had droppe[...]

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