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Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Substantial Compliance With Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Notice Requirements Applies To Governmental Entities

August 31, 2017

In its opinion filed on August 8, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) affirmed that substantial compliance with the documentation requirement in Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-26-121(b) is sufficient even when the defendant is a government[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Undisclosed Testimony Of Nurses

August 27, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Knoxville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) filed an opinion on August 7, 2017 that overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case involving a woman suffering an unforeseen allergic reaction to a medication she received during labor that resul[...]

Tennessee Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Complaint Based On No Pre-Suit HIPAA-Compliant Medical Authorization

August 24, 2017

In its opinion filed on July 5, 2017, the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Jackson (“Tennessee Supreme Court”) held that a prospective plaintiff who provides pre-suit notice to one potential defendant is not required under Tennessee Code Annotated section 29-26-121(a)(2)(E) to provide the [...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Rules Mother’s Birth Injury Claim Untimely, But Child’s Birth Injury Claim Was Timely Filed

July 8, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) ruled on May 26, 2017 that a mother’s medical malpractice claim for the injuries she sustained during the birth of her child was untimely filed, but overruled the trial court’s ruling that the child’s birth[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Determines Claim Against EMT Did Not Require Expert’s Report

May 4, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Knoxville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 2, 2017, that “it would be within the common knowledge of a layperson whether an EMT’s alleged negligent, reckless, or intentional striking of a patient’s face while th[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

January 5, 2017

In its opinion filed on November 29, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson (“Appellate Court”) determined that the trial court erred in excluding and failing to consider respectively the deposition testimony and affidavit of the plaintiff’s medical expert (her subsequ[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal Of Non-Medical Malpractice Claim, Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Claim

December 14, 2016

In its opinion filed on November 30, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the pro se plaintiff’s medical malpractice (health care liability) claim alleged in her complaint because she failed to comply[...]

Tennessee Circuit Court Affirms $28M Punitive Damages Award Against Nursing Home

November 14, 2016

In its October 28, 2016 Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law Affirming Punitive Damages regarding various nursing home companies and individuals who operated a Tennessee nursing home that a Tennessee jury determined were responsible for a resident’s death, the court affirmed the jury[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Revives Dismissed Tennessee Medical Malpractice Case

October 23, 2016

In its opinion filed on October 19, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson (“Appellate Court”) ruled that the trial court had improperly dismissed the plaintiffs’ Tennessee medical malpractice case when it erroneously determined that the parties to the plaintiffs’[...]

$30M Tennessee Nursing Home Verdict

August 31, 2016

A Tennessee jury recently returned its verdict in the amount of $30 million against a Tennessee nursing home, which included $28 million in punitive damages. The remainder of the jury’s verdict was for compensatory damages for nursing home negligence ($1.9 million) and for violations of the Te[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Hospital Overdosed Patient Leading To His Death

April 19, 2016

On April 15, 2016, the widow of a Tennessee police detective filed her Tennessee medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where her husband had a lethal level of narcotic pain medication (oxycodone) in his system at the time of his death. The widow was originally told that he[...]

Surgery Performed On Wrong Baby

February 11, 2016

A Tennessee couple are living through a nightmare situation after having given birth to a healthy baby boy in a Tennessee hospital. While in the hospital nursery, shortly after birth, the baby was mistaken for another newborn in the hospital nursery and was removed from the nursery for a frenoto[...]

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