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Texas Appellate Court Rules Sexual Assault Allegation Was Not Health Care Malpractice Claim

January 6, 2026

Fourteen-year-old S.L.P. was admitted to Carrus Behavioral Hospital. Approximately one week later, she was discharged from Carrus’ inpatient program and transitioned to an outpatient program. She participated in counseling in the morning and did her schoolwork in the afternoon. In the afternoon pr[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Claim Arising From Injuries Suffered By Patient Being Helped To Car After Hospital Care Is Health Care Liability Claim

October 11, 2025

After Kathleen Holcomb (“Holcomb”) was treated at Seton Medical Center (“Seton”), Seton employees transported Holcomb from the hospital back to her car. Unfortunately, while assisting Holcomb into her car, the employees dropped her, causing her to break her foot and ankle. Ho[...]

Texas Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Involving Death Of Infant

September 23, 2025

Grace Okonrende and Chosen Okonrende, individually and as representatives of the estate of Champion Okonrende, brought negligence, gross negligence, wrongful death, and survival claims after their infant son, Champion, died in a hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit. They named as defendants Dr[...]

Texas Cardiologist Agrees To Pay $1.2 Million To Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations

September 21, 2025

Dr. Juan Kurdi, M.D., a cardiologist in Lubbock, Texas, has agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by issuing prescriptions for opioids and other powerful drugs outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate me[...]

Texas Birth Injury Malpractice Lawsuit Challenges Damages Cap

August 29, 2025

A couple from Waco, Texas has filed a Texas birth injury medical malpractice lawsuit that also challenges the cap on medical malpractice damages in Texas. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleges: “The staff at Ascension Providence Hospital was negligent in failing to adequately respond with in[...]

Texas Federal Judge Rules People With Disabilities Are Illegally Being Kept In Nursing Homes

August 8, 2025

A federal judge in Texas stated in his 475-page Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law filed on June 19, 2025: “Integration is fundamental to the purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Provision of segregated accommodations and services relegates persons with disabilities to second[...]

Texas Supreme Court Affirms Claim That Doctor Is Liable For Mauling By Patient’s Service Dog Is Not Medical Malpractice Claim

August 4, 2025

A service dog attacked a young child in a restaurant. Her parents sued, among other defendants, a medical doctor who had written letters for the dog’s owner saying that her service animals help with her anxiety disorder. The parents did not dispute the correctness of the doctor’s opinions that t[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds Jury’s Verdict For Compensatory Damages In Jail Deliberate Indifference Case But Finds Punitive Damages Award Excessive

June 5, 2025

The evidence at trial showed that on the morning of Saturday, August 25, 2018, NaphCare, Inc.’s (“NaphCare”) nurse Hannah Neill-Gubitz (“Gubitz”) found Cindy Lou Hill (“Hill”) lying shirtless on the floor of her cell and screaming in pain at the Spokane County Jail (“the [...]

Texas Midwife Arrested For Alleged Illegal Abortions

May 11, 2025

On March 17, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area. Rojas, a midwife known as “Dr. Maria,” was taken into custody in Waller Co[...]

Nearly $60M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

December 7, 2024

A Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on September 27, 2024 in the amount of $59.7 million in favor of 33-year-old Kiet “Ricky” Tuan Do against Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and a physician. Ricky had alleged in his Texas medical malpractice lawsuit that the hospit[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Personal Injury Claim By Person Struck By Ambulance In Intersection Is A Medical Malpractice Claim

November 17, 2024

Emergency medical technician Nicole Mirza was transporting a patient (Willis) by ambulance on an emergency basis when she entered an intersection against a red light and was struck by a pickup truck driven by Dexter Fernil. Fernil and his spouse sued Mirza and her employer, alleging that Fernil was [...]

Texas Appellate Court Reinstates Mental Patient’s Head Injury Medical Malpractice Case

September 23, 2024

Brandon Dodd filed a second amended petition naming Vishal Patel, M.D., University Behavioral Health of Denton (UBH), and Saumil Mehta, M.D., as defendants. The petition alleged Dodd, an eighteen-year-old high school student, was admitted to UBH on the afternoon of May 8, 2020, “in a confused and [...]

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