Texas Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 9 of 15

Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer To Help Me?

December 8, 2019

“Why can’t I find a medical malpractice lawyer to help me?” It is often difficult to find medical malpractice attorneys on your own to help you with your medical malpractice claim – not every instance of medical malpractice, no matter how obvious, will result in the victim be[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Claim By Ambulance Passenger For Injuries After Driver Fell Asleep And Crashed Was Not Medical Malpractice Claim

October 9, 2019

The Texas Eleventh Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on September 12, 2019 that the claim of the mother of a minor child who was accompanying her child in an ambulance and was injured when the driver fell asleep, the ambulance left the roadway, and the [...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms $1.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cotton Ball Left In Brain During Surgery Seven Years Earlier

September 10, 2019

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on August 22, 1019 in a Texas medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that a cotton ball was left behind in her brain at the conclusion of the brain surge[...]

Texas Appellate Court Allows Texas Medical Malpractice Case To Proceed

August 22, 2019

The Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi-Edinburg (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on July 17, 2019 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in a Texas medical malpractice case in its failure to grant the defendant’s mo[...]

Texas Appellate Court Dismisses Medical Malpractice Case Because Expert Report Filed 18 Minutes Too Late

August 9, 2019

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on July 10, 2019 that the plaintiff’s Texas medical malpractice case should have been dismissed by the trial court because the plaintiff’s medical malpractice[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Expert’s Report Inadequate In Medical Malpractice Case

July 6, 2019

The Texas Eleventh Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its June 6, 2019 opinion that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert report was inadequate “Because the expert report filed by Appellees in support of their claims fails to state the specific cond[...]

Texas Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report Sufficient In Dental Malpractice Case

April 14, 2019

The State of Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 2, 2019: “Because [the plaintiff’s] expert report provided a fair summary of the expert’s opinions regarding the applicable standards of care, a statement identifying[...]

Researchers Find Texas’ Bases For Medical Malpractice Reform In 2003 Were Bogus

March 8, 2019

The University of Texas School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 284 entitled “Fictions and Facts: Medical Malpractice Litigation, Physician Supply, and Health Care Spending in Texas Before and After HB4,” which was posted on February 7, 2019, found: (1) there were no major ch[...]

Texas Supreme Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict, Finds Expert’s Opinion Not Conclusory

February 10, 2019

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the plaintiff’s medical expert’s opinion offered during a Texas medical malpractice jury trial was not “conclusory” and therefore upheld the jury’s verdict [...]

Texas Supreme Court Applies Willful And Wanton Negligence Standard In Birth Injury Case

January 25, 2019

In its opinion filed on December 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Texas held that the Texas Medical Liability Act’s emergency-medical-care provision, which requires claimants asserting certain Texas medical malpractice claims to prove “wilful and wanton negligence,” applies to claims arising fro[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds OB’s Mistress’ Claim She Was Tricked Into Abortion Is A Medical Malpractice Claim

December 28, 2018

The Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion dated November 14, 2018 that the plaintiff’s claim that the defendant OB, who had a sexual relationship with her in 2009, had tricked her into having an abortion was a health car[...]

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

December 6, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion delivered on November 16, 2018 that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s report sufficiently identified the applicable standard of care and the link between the defendant hospital’s nur[...]

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