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AMA Votes To Fund Studies Comparing Care From Physicians Versus Nurse Practitioners (NPs) And Physician Assistants (PAs)

August 25, 2026

On June 9, 2026, the AMA House of Delegates, concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, voted to fund independent studies that compare outcomes. The studies will look at patient[...]

$25M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Sepsis

July 6, 2026

On July 1, 2026, an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $25 million for the death of an Ohio man whose sepsis was allegedly not timely diagnosed and treated by a hospital in October 2021, leading to a hemorrhagic stroke and subsequent death due to bacte[...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case, Overturning Tribunal’s Decision

January 5, 2026

On July 6, 2020, the decedent, a fifty-eight year old man, presented to the emergency department at Cape Cod Hospital (CCH) via ambulance because he was unable to use his left arm. He reported that he had fallen approximately two weeks prior and did not experience pain until one week afterward. Dr. [...]

$3M Upstate New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Perirectal Abscess In ER

December 16, 2025

An upstate New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 49-year-old woman $3 million ($1 million for past pain and suffering and $2 million for future pain and suffering) on October 10, 2025 in her medical malpractice case against a hospital for the alleged failure to diagnose an abscess when she wen[...]

$35M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Infection Leading To Necrotizing Fasciitis After Cosmetic Surgery

March 30, 2025

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $35 million for a patient who had elective cosmetic surgical procedures after which she developed an infection that was not timey or appropriately diagnosed or treated, leading to sepsis and the patient deteriorating into a co[...]

$7M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Rectal Cancer Affirmed

February 23, 2025

In July 2019, Steven Delavern, then 31-years-old, went to Health Services, a family practice, with complaints of rectalpain and bleeding along with other bowel issues. He was seen by PA Karla Lynn Wilson, a physicians’ assistant who was supervised by Dr. Nicole Carroll. PA Wilson diagnosed Mr. Del[...]

California Supreme Court Rules $250K MICRA Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Physician Assistants

February 26, 2022

In its opinion dated February 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of California (“California Supreme Court”) held that California’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases “applies to a physician assistant who has a legally enforceable agency relationship wit[...]

$3.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

July 21, 2021

On May 29, 2021, a Missouri medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict of almost $3.2 million in favor of the parents of a one-year-old who died three hours after he was seen in an urgent care clinic at CoxHealth Hospital in Branson, Missouri, on June 5, 2017. The urgent care clini[...]

Wisconsin Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Claim Against Physician Assistant Cannot Be Maintained If His Employer Is Not A Party

March 19, 2021

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals District IV (“Wisconsin Appellate Court”) stated in its decision dated January 14, 2021: “The dispositive issue before this court is whether a suit against an individual who is not a statutorily defined health care provider (Gander), but is an employe[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Applies Contradictory Affidavit Rule To Deny Medical Malpractice Claim

June 2, 2020

The Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”), in its opinion filed on March 12, 2020, applied the contradictory affidavit rule in denying the medical malpractice claim of an Iowa woman who had to have an arm and eight toes amputated due to necrotizing fasciitis that she claimed the d[...]

California Appellate Court Eviscerates $4.25M Noneconomic Damages Award In Medical Malpractice Case To $250,000

May 5, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”), in its published opinion filed on March 24, 2020, slashed the California medical malpractice trial court’s award of noneconomic damages in the amount of $4,250,000 [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Negligence Led To 19-Year-Old’s Death From Aortic Dissection

March 26, 2020

The parents of a 19-year-old who died from an aortic dissection filed a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore on March 20, 2020 against a hospital located in Western Maryland and a physician and a physician’s assistant working in the hospital’s[...]

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