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Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Hospital Responsible For Medical Malpractice Verdict Based On Apparent Agency

December 13, 2017

In its opinion filed on November 8, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) affirmed that the defendant hospital was responsible for a share of the $750,000 verdict the Tennessee medical malpractice jury returned in favor of the plaintiff, holdi[...]

$465K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Kidney Cancer

October 23, 2017

On October 17, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $465,000 to the estate of an 87-year-old man and his wife of 65 years for the failure to diagnose his kidney cancer for two years. After the man’s kidney cancer was finally diagnosed in 2015, he lived for only six wee[...]

$3.35M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologists For Misread Mammograms

September 21, 2017

On August 30, 2017, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3.35 million against two radiologist and a hospital for their alleged failure to diagnose the plaintiff’s breast cancer from two mammograms that were performed one year [...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment On Statute Of Limitations Issue

September 17, 2017

The Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in a 2 to 1 opinion filed on August 30, 2017 that the trial court erred in not granting summary judgment in favor of the Florida medical malpractice plaintiff on the issue of the statute of limitations[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Applies Common Knowledge Exception To Expert Testimony In Stroke Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice Case

August 4, 2017

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING KENTUCKY COURT OF APPEALS CASE WAS REVERSED BY THE KENTUCKY SUPREME COURT ON AUGUST 29, 2019 In its unpublished opinion filed on July 21, 2017, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that given the ubiquity of information regar[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony Not Admissible

June 12, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 13, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in favor of the defendants in a Michigan medical malpractice wrongful death case because the plainti[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Orthopedic Surgeon Not Liable To Patient For Failure To Diagnose Lung Cancer

June 3, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on May 10, 2017 that the defendant orthopedic surgeon’s duty of care as an orthopedic surgeon did not extend to the alleged departure[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Effect Of Non-Party Subsequent Treating Physicians’ Negligence In Medical Malpractice Case

May 26, 2017

In a case decided on May 24, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), Maryland’s highest court, held: ” … a defendant generally denying liability may present evidence of a non-party’s negligence and causation as an affirmative defense. It was not [...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict

February 7, 2017

In its decision dated January 20, 2017, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) affirmed a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $3 million in favor of the plaintiff that found that the two defendant radiologists had breached the standard o[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Discusses Whether ER Physicians Were Independent Contractors

February 6, 2017

In its opinion filed on January 19, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) analyzed whether two emergency room physicians who had treated the plaintiff were agents or employees of the hospital or were independent contractors for whom the hospital would not be liable [...]

$1.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread CT Leading To Unnecessary Surgery

October 5, 2016

On September 23, 2016, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a conservative Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of $1.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who had his CT scan misread by the defendant radiologist, which led to unnecessary surgery that has left the man with severe chro[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation

August 30, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unreported opinion filed on August 17, 2016 that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to establish that the 19-day delay from a radiologist’[...]

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