Suicide Malpractice Claim Archives - Medical Malpractice Lawyers

$5.7M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

September 9, 2025

Christopher Yates was awarded $5.7 million for the wrongful death of his wife, Kim Yates, by suicide. The Kansas medical malpractice jury determined that two defendants were at fault for the woman’s death due to medical negligence. Yates’ medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit alleged th[...]

Georgia Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Staffing Shortage Led To Patient’s Suicide

August 21, 2025

The family of a 35-year-old man who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and called 911 from a hotel on January 12, 2024, stating that he was having a nervous breakdown and needed help, has filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where he was brought by ambulance [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds Medical Provider May Be Liable For Patient’s Suicide

August 6, 2025

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada stated in its Opinion filed on June 12, 2025: “In the instant medical malpractice action alleged that a medical provider’s negligence in treating his patient caused the patient to die by suicide. The district court granted summary judgment in favo[...]

California Jail Medical Provider Remains As Defendant In Prision Suicide Case

January 1, 2025

Jose Banda Pichardo, a 22-year-old with mental health issues, was arrested on Octiober 27, 2018 and booked into the Imperial County Regional Adult Detention Facility (Imperial County jail) where he reportedly disclosed that he suffered from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, an[...]

New York Appellate Court Finds Trial Judge Erred In Setting Aside $10M Medical Malpractice Suicide Verdict On Issue Of Proximate Cause

July 9, 2024

A New York medical malpractice plaintiff filed an action against the defendant physician, Theodore Strange, to recover damages for medical malpractice and wrongful death related to the death of Richard Shouldis by suicide. Strange treated the decedent in the days and weeks before the decedent’s de[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Mental Health Doctors Not Responsible For Patient’s Drowning Death

May 31, 2024

Following the death of Elzabad H. Ferguson III (“Chaz”), his parents, Elzabad H. Ferguson, Jr. and Wilhelmena Ferguson, filed an action against Blaire Bowers, D.O.; Steven Currier, M.D.; and Augusta Physicians Group, LLC, based on emergency mental health care they rendered to Chaz. Shortly after[...]

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award

October 9, 2022

Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award: The Supreme Court of Texas stated in its opinion delivered on May 13, 2022: “In this health-care liability case, we must determine the appropriate causation standard to apply. The facts are tragic. A teen committed suicide after seeking treatme[...]

Nearly $3 Million Celexa Suicide Verdict In Texas

May 18, 2022

On May 13, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,979,523 for an elderly man who committed suicide shortly after being placed on the anti-anxiety medication Celexa (Citalopram). The defendants were his primary care physician and his medical pra[...]

Vermont Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Inmate’s Suicide Claim

October 13, 2021

The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a Vermont lawsuit arising out of the suicide of an inmate in the custody of the Vermont Department of Corrections, holding: “It is undisputed that plaintiff failed to file a COM [certificate of merit required in medical malpractice claims] si[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms $3.9M Drug Rehab Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Suicide

September 24, 2021

In its published opinon dated August 31, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $3.9 million ($1.7 million for past damages and $2.2 million for future d[...]

Confidential Settlement Reached in Chris Cornell Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

May 29, 2021

Rolling Stone has reported that the family of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell has reached a confidential settlement in their 2018 medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against a physician who allegedly overprescribed multiple medications for Cornell that “impaired [his] cognition, clou[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Remands Mental Health Provider Malpractice Lawsuit For Suicide/Familicide

March 13, 2021

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Court of Appeals”) held in its opinion filed on February 16, 2021, “Because Short’s mental-health provider owed a duty of care to him as a matter of law, and because genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether Short’s [...]

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