Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 9 of 21

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay Nearly $15.5M To Settle False Claims Allegations

April 19, 2020

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Pennsylvania announced on February 19, 2020 that Guardian Elder Care Holdings, Inc., which operates more than 50 nursing homes throughout Pennsylvania, and its related companies, will pay $15,466,278 to settle claims that it provided medically unneces[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Mental Health Immunity May Not Apply To Drug Rehabilitation

April 16, 2020

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”), in its opinion dated February 15, 2020, discussed the scope and application of the qualified immunity provided under Section 114 of the Mental Health Procedures Act (“MHPA”), 50 P.S. §§7101-75[...]

Pennsylvania’s “A Study of the Impact of Venue for Medical Professional Liability Actions”

March 12, 2020

Senate Resolution 2019-20 (SR 20) directed Pennsylvania’s Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (“LBFC”) to conduct a study of the impact of venue for medical professional liability actions on access to medical care and maintenance of health care systems in Pennsylvania. The stu[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Orders Disclosure of Credentialing Documents To Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

March 2, 2020

In its opinion dated February 13, 2020, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) held: “Since St. Clair Hospital’s credentialing committee is a committee that reviewed the professional qualifications and activities of Dr. Petraglia following his applica[...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

February 25, 2020

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in its opinion filed on February 6, 2020, held, in a case in which a nursing home was seeking to enforce an arbitration agreement signed by the resident’s wife with regard to negligence claims against the nursing home, “The trial court concluded, and w[...]

$1.25M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Fatal Brain Hemmorhage

January 1, 2020

On November 26, 2019, an Erie, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.25 million against a primary care physician and his medical practice whom the jury found to have been negligent in failing to investigate the cause of a 45-year-old woman’s persistent [...]

$9.6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Cervical Cancer In Nine-Year-old

December 29, 2019

A Berks County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $9.6 million to a now 15-year-old girl whose cervical cancer was not timely diagnosed. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial lasted eight days before the jury deliberated for two days prior to rendering its verdict against the defend[...]

$6.3M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Cardiologist

December 25, 2019

On December 9, 2019, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $6,308,000 in favor of the wife of a 48-year-old man who died from acute myocardial infarcation (heart attack) due to severely constricted cardiac arteries, six weeks after the defendant[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reinstates $2,391,620 Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 30, 2019

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”), in its opinion dated September 26, 2019, reinstated a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $2,391,620 in favor of the plaintiff, who alleged that she suffered injuries whil[...]

Contaminated Donor Breast Milk In Pennsylvania Hospital’s NICU Kills Three Babies, Sickens Five Others

November 16, 2019

The process that Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania used to prepare donor breast milk was the cause of the deadly bacterial infections that caused the deaths of three babies in August and September 2019, and sickened five other babies in its NICU since July 2019. Of the five survivin[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Medical Care Availability And Reduction of Error Act’s 7-Year Statute Of Repose Is Unconstitutional

November 2, 2019

In its opinion dated October 31, 2019, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Western District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) stated: “In this appeal by allowance, we consider whether the seven-year statute of repose in Section 1303.513(a) of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction [...]

$4.7M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict Against PCP For Missed Diagnosis Of Infection Leading To Death

November 1, 2019

On October 11, 2019, after about three hours of deliberations, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death plaintiffs in the amount of $4.7 million against a primary care physician who failed to timely diagnose his pati[...]

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