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Texas Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiffs’ Medical-Expert Report Was Sufficient In Fall From Operating Room Table Case

October 7, 2022

Court Affirms Medical-Expert Report Sufficient In Operating Room Table Fall Case: John Swaim and his wife, Waltraud, filed a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit in which they alleged that on November 9, 2019, John fell at home and went to Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital (the “Hospital”) f[...]

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Reviving Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

October 3, 2022

Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Reviving Birth Injury Case: The Supreme Court of Texas stated in its opinion dated May 6, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice birth injury case: “The Texas Medical Liability Act requires health-care-liability claimants to timely serve each defend[...]

$95M Texas Dental Malpractice Verdict For 4-Year-Old’s Brain Damage From Sedation

September 30, 2022

$95M Verdict For 4-Year-Old’s Brain Damage From Sedation: On January 7, 2016 at Diamond Dental, 4-year-old Nevaeh Hall was sedated by a dentist in preparation for a for a baby root canal and to have a crown placed on one of her teeth. She was restrained on a papoose board (a temporary medical [...]

Texas Anesthesiologist Charged With Alleged Tampering With IV Bags Implicated In Death, Surgical Emergencies

September 22, 2022

Anesthesiologist Implicated In Death after Tampering With IV Bags: The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Texas announced on September 15, 2022 that Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, a Dallas anesthesiologist, allegedly injected nerve blocking agents and other drugs int[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient

September 16, 2022

Under Chapter 74, claimants in Texas health care liability cases must serve an expert report on each defendant. TEX.CIV. PRAC. & REM.CODE § 74.351. The purpose of this requirement is to weed out frivolous malpractice claims in the early stages of litigation, not to dispose of potentially merito[...]

Texas Appellate Court Revives Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Ambulance Company Despite Defective Medical Authorization

September 3, 2022

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) stated in its June 10, 2022 opinion in a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against an ambulance company, “we construe the TMLA—as courts construe all statutes—to encourage and safegu[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Claim Against Ophthalmologist

August 29, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on February 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit filed a claim against an ophthalmologist for alleged medical negligence in diagnosing a seven-year-old’s occipital tumor,[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Failure To File Proper Medical Authorization Wipes Out Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 5, 2022

Court Holds Failure To File Proper Authorization Wipes Out Malpractice Verdict: In its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 17, 2022, the Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in a Texas medical malpractice case: “We conclude Hampton’s a[...]

Texas Supreme Court Dismisses Medical Spa Laser Skin Treatments Case For Lack Of Expert Report

July 9, 2022

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) stated in its opinion filed on February 25, 2022: “The plaintiff in this case alleges that the defendants negligently administered various treatments that caused scarring and discoloration to her skin. The primary issue is whether [...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Texas Supreme Court Discusses Requirements Of Periodic Payments Statute In Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

July 7, 2022

Texas Civil Remedies & Procedures Code § 74.503 Texas Civil Remedies & Procedures Code § 74.503, Texas’ periodic-payments statute for medical malpractice cases, provides that “[a]t the request of a defendant physician or health care provider or claimant, the court shall order that [...]

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery

July 3, 2022

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery: In early April 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned a verdict against a Texas hospital and an anesthesia practice for the brain damage suffered by a patient during surgery when an anesthesiologist adminis[...]

Texas Appellate Court Revives One Of Plaintiff’s Claims Involving Negligent Sterilization/Wrongful Birth

June 17, 2022

The plaintiff in a Texas medical malpractice case alleged that defendant Dr. Noe failed to perform a bilateral tubal ligation at the time of her third Cesarean delivery on July 16, 2014, which she alleged resulted in the unplanned pregnancy and birth of her healthy fourth child, Andrea. The plaintif[...]

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