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Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Surgeon Removed Large Portion Of Patient’s Pancreas, Instead Of Adrenal Gland

October 14, 2017

A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a surgeon who allegedly removed 40% of the plaintiff’s healthy pancreas instead of the cancerous tumor on her adrenal gland. The defendant surgeon told the 63-year-old woman’s family shortly after the surgery that he had removed [...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Promissory Estoppel Claim Was A Healthcare Liability Claim

September 20, 2017

In its August 31, 2017 Memorandum Opinion, the Court of Appeals Second District of Texas Forth Worth (“Texas Appellate Court”) stated that “[t]he lone issue is a familiar one: the often hazy question of whether a claim, though labeled otherwise, is a healthcare-liability claim sub[...]

Texas Nursing Home Complaints Spike Since Hurricane Harvey

September 13, 2017

We have experienced a spike in inquiries regarding Texas nursing home complaints since Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas in late August 2017. Many of the heart-wrenching complaints involve not only the conditions nursing home residents are experiencing since Hurricane Harvey barreled throug[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Expert Report Was Sufficient

September 8, 2017

In its opinion filed on August 17, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held that the trial court reasonably could have concluded that the plaintiff’s expert report met the requirements of Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 74[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Sufficiency Of Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Report

June 22, 2017

In its Memorandum Opinion filed on May 25, 2017, the Court of Appeals Thirteenth District Of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s ruling that the plaintiff’s expert report filed with her Texas medical malpractice lawsuit was sufficient. The medical mal[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert Was Unqualified To Testify

June 17, 2017

The Court of Appeals Eighth District of Texas El Paso, Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) issued an opinion on April 19, 2017 in which it held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding the plaintiff’s medical malpractice expert unqualified to express some of the [...]

Texas Appellate Court Finds Medical Malpractice Expert’s Report Deficient

May 10, 2017

In its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 21, 2017, the Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Appellate Court”) held that the medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s report was deficient because it did not satisfy the statutory element of causation by setting o[...]

Texas Physician, Pharmacist, And Patient Recruiter Sentenced For Oxycodone Conspiracy

April 23, 2017

A 77-year-old physician, a 51-year-old pharmacist, and a 63-year-old man described as a patient recruiter, all of whom are Houston, Texas residents, were sentenced to federal prison on April 3, 2017 for their respective roles in an illegal conspiracy involving prescription oxycodone pills in the Hou[...]

Texas Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Report Deficient

April 19, 2017

In its Memorandum Opinion dated March 30, 2017, the Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Appellate Court”) remanded the Texas medical malpractice case to the trial court to determine whether to grant the plaintiff a thirty-day extension to cure [...]

$450K Texas Nursing Home Verdict For Untreated Toe Infection Leading To Death

April 2, 2017

A Texas nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in the amount of $450,000 in favor of the son of a former resident whose death the jury determined was caused by the negligent failure of the defendant nursing home to properly diagnose and treat the 79-year-old diabetic resident’s big [...]

Former Texas Neurosurgeon Sentenced To Life In Prison For Intentionally Harming Patients

March 28, 2017

A former Texas neurosurgeon was sentenced to life in prison by a Dallas jury that deliberated his sentence for only one hour after he was found guilty on February 14, 2017 of intentionally causing serious bodily harm to an elderly patient on whom he performed spinal surgery in 2012 that left the [...]

Texas Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Toddler’s Death During Unnecessary Dental Procedure

March 10, 2017

The parents of a 14-month-old child have filed a Texas dental malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a dentist, his dental practice, and the anesthesiologist who provided anesthesia to the child for a dental procedure involving multiple baby root canals and crowns on four teeth, during which the[...]

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