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Texas Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Reports Were Sufficient When Considered Together In Health Care Liability Case

May 23, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals stated in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice case where the defendants challenged the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s experts’ reports: “Appellee is permitted to rely on more than one expert report in m[...]

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[...]

Texas Supreme Court Rules Nursing Home’s Policies And Procedures Not Discoverable Before Plaintiff’s Expert Report Is Due

May 6, 2022

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) stated in its opinion filed on February 25, 2022: “we examine the scope of discovery that the Texas Medical Liability Act permits before the plaintiff serves the expert report that the Act requires. The trial court declined to comp[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Expert Was Qualified To Render Opinions

April 19, 2022

The plaintiff in a Texas medical malpractice case filed against a hospital alleged that had Methodist Hospitals of Dallas d/b/a Methodist Mansfield Medical Center (MMMC) had proper policies, procedures, and training in place, those policies would have dictated proper diagnostic testing that would ha[...]

Texas Appellate Court Upholds That Fraud Claim Against Hospital Was Health Care Liability Claim

March 8, 2022

The Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its January 6, 2022 Memorandum Opinion in a Texas medical malpractice case: “Because Soliz’s negligent credentialing claims are HCLCs [health care liability claims][...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report Was Sufficient

January 18, 2022

The Texas Medical Liability Act (TMLA) requires a claimant to serve an expert report early in the proceedings on each party against whom a health care liability claim is asserted. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 74.351(a) (West Supp. 2021). The Texas Supreme Court has explained that “elici[...]

Texas Appellate Court Denies Summary Judgment In Medical Malpractice Case Based On COVID-19 Delays

January 17, 2022

In its Memorandum Opinion filed on December 21, 2022, the Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in a medical malpractice case where the trial court denied the defendant’s motion for summary judgment based on lim[...]

Texas Appellate Court Allows Premmie Wrongful Death Lawsuit To Proceed

January 5, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated November 23, 2021 in a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit for the death of a premature baby in the NICU: “we conclude the trial court acted within its discretion in concluding the expe[...]

Texas Lawsuit Alleges Nursing Home Staff’s Aggressive Suctioning Led To Resident’s Death

December 25, 2021

A lawsuit filed on November 3, 2021 in the District Court of Harris County, Texas against ARC Post Oak, LP d/b/a Brookdale Galleria alleges that an employee of the defendant nursing home was too aggressive in attempting to suction the mouth of a resident, thereby causing heavy bleeding and leading t[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs’ Expert’s Report Insufficient In Newborn Death Case

December 18, 2021

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court “) held in its October 12, 2021 opinion that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiffs’ expert’s report, which was required by section 74.351 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, “does not contain sufficie[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Physician Ignored Patient’s Sulfa Allergy, Leading To Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

December 5, 2021

On October 26, 2021, a Texas medial malpractice lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Harris County, Texas against the plaintiff’s treating physician, alleging that the defendant “decided to ignore prior notices and warnings pertaining to Plaintiff’s severe allergy to sulfa an[...]

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