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$75 Million Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist And ER Physician For Locked-In Syndrome

October 26, 2022

$75 Million Verdict For Locked-In Syndrome: Earlier this month, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a medical malpractice plaintiff who suffered locked-in syndrome due to the medical negligence of the ER physician and a radiologist who failed to timely diagnose his br[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$15.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist For Permanent Paralysis

August 31, 2022

$15.5 Million Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist: Earlier in August 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15.5 million against neurosurgeon Mark A. Fulton, M.D., whom the jury determined to have failed to diagnose and subsequently treat a patient&#[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff Failed To Show Compensable Damages In Delayed Diagnosis Of Pancreatic Cancer Medical Malpractice Case

July 6, 2022

Court Affirms Plaintiff Failed to Show Compensable Damages in Cancer Case: On May 26, 2015, Mr. Dean, age 54, presented at the Garrett County Memorial Hospital’s emergency room complaining of abdominal pain, back pain, and nausea. The emergency room physicians performed several diagnostic procedur[...]

$2.4 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Breast Cancer Treatment

June 30, 2022

On June 27, 2022, a Circuit Court for Baltimore County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.4 million ($143,305.96 for past medical expenses and $2,256,694.04 in non-economic damages, which will be reduced pursuant to Maryland’s cap on non[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Rules No Affidavit Of Merit Needed For Vicarious Liability Claim Against Licensed Entity For Negligence Of Unlicensed Person

June 16, 2022

In its opinion filed on April 12, 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court stated: “The Affidavit of Merit (AOM) statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-26 to -29, requires a plaintiff bringing a malpractice or a negligence claim against a “licensed person” to submit an AOM by an appropriately licensed person [...]

$28.5M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Settlement For Missed Pediatric Brain Tumor

June 14, 2022

A $28.5 million settlement was recently reached in a South Carolina medical malpractice case that alleged that a radiologist failed to identify a malignant tumor on an MRI brain scan of a 14-year-old student-athlete in 2015 after he started having shooting pains in the back of his skull, incidents o[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Holds Hospital May Be Held Liable For Wrong CT Scan Being Ordered

April 7, 2022

In its opinion dated February 11, 2022, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that the trial court was wrong in granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital in a Kentucky medical malpractice case where the dispute was whether the proper CT[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Extends Vicarious Liability For Independent Contractor Physician To Non-Hospital Medical Providers

March 28, 2022

The Indiana Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on March 24, 2022: “In Sword v. NKC Hospitals, Inc., our Court adopted the Restatement (Second) of Torts section 429 and held that a hospital may be held vicariously liable for the tortious conduct of an independent contractor through apparen[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Granting Of New Trial In Medical Malpractice Case Was Abuse Of Discretion

January 15, 2022

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Eastern District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held in it opinion dated December 22, 2021 in a medical malpractice case: “the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a mistrial based on a single, unanswered question proposed to an expe[...]

Michigan Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule To Revive Misread Mammogram Medical Malpractice Case

September 6, 2021

The Michigan Supreme Court, in its decision dated July 30, 2021, held that under Solowy v Oakwood Hosp Corp, 454 Mich 214 (1997), discovering the existence of a medical malpractice claim requires knowing a possible cause of the underlying injury. In the case it was deciding, which was still at the p[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Rules Indemnity Claim Is Subject To Medical Malpractice Act Requirements

May 27, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on May 4, 2021, “The primary issue in this case is whether an indemnity claim by a healthcare provider against another healthcare provider based on alleged medical negligence is subject to India[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms No Affidavit Of Merit Needed For Malpractice Claim Involving Unlicensed Employee

February 19, 2021

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) stated in its published opinion filed on January 27, 2021, “This appeal presents a discrete yet novel issue, requiring us to determine whether an affidavit of merit (AOM) is mandated under the Affida[...]

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