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Utah Supreme Court Finds Utah Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Too Late Under UGIA

September 6, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 15, 2019 that despite the Utah medical malpractice plaintiff’s argument that a notice of claim she filed in September 2016, regarding the medical services she received no later than 20[...]

Utah Supreme Court Rules Part Of Utah Health Care Malpractice Act Is Unconstitutional

July 20, 2019

In its opinion filed on July 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”) ruled that the requirement in the Utah Health Care Malpractice Act (“Act”) that a Utah medical malpractice claimant obtain a certificate of compliance from the Division of Occ[...]

Utah Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Jury Finding That Statute Of Limitations Barred Plaintiff’s Claim

April 30, 2018

In its opinion filed on April 11, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”) affirmed a Utah medical malpractice jury’s finding that the plaintiff’s claim was filed after the two-year statute of limitations for Utah medical malpractice claims expired [...]

Utah Appellate Court Imputes Nurse’s Concealment Of Medication Error To The Nursing Home Where She Was Employed

January 31, 2018

The Utah Court of Appeals (“Utah Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 19, 2018 that the defendant nursing home’s efforts to avoid full liability for its nurse’s medication error and her subsequent concealment of that error are unavailing, largely because kno[...]

Failure Of Multiple Utah Medical Facilities To Report Nurse’s Sexual Assaults Over 10 Year Period Resulted In 12 Victims

January 15, 2018

A Utah nurse who has allegedly sexually assaulted at least 12 women at four different Utah medical facilities over the period of ten years could have been stopped if they had properly reported his misconduct to the appropriate authorities, according to one victim’s Utah medical malpractice law[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds $2.1M Defective Hip Implant Verdict

April 10, 2017

On March 20, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Appellate Court”) upheld a $2.1 million product liability judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the first bellwether trial in a multidistrict litigation involving over 500 cases concerning the Wright Medical Conserve[...]

$2.9M Utah Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Medical Clinic For Misdiagnosed Cardiac Condition Resulting In Death

March 20, 2017

A Utah medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant medical clinic for its failure to diagnose a patient’s cardiac condition on two separate occasions, resulting in the patient’s death from an aortic dissection. The Utah medical malpractice jury found the defendant[...]

Utah Supreme Court Nixes Medical Malpractice Noneconomic Damages Cap For Death Claims

August 21, 2015

In its opinion filed on August 11, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”) held that the noneconomic damages cap in section 78B-3-410 of the Utah Health Care Malpractice Act (“Malpractice Act”) is not constitutionally permissible as applied to wron[...]

$1.6M Utah Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict

November 9, 2014

On October 27, 2014, a Utah medical malpractice jury found Utah’s largest healthcare network provider responsible for the wrongful death of a patient who was found unresponsive by his wife after failing to wake up in the morning on April 3, 2008. The jury awarded $1,676,737 in compensatory da[...]

VA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed In Utah For Death Of 30-Year-Old Former Soldier

October 19, 2012

The parents of a 30-year-old former U.S. Army soldier who was medically discharged from the Army following a service-related back injury have filed a federal medical malpractice lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) in Utah for his death that was allegedly due to[...]

Utah Supreme Court Overturns Defendants Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 23, 2012

On July 20, 2012, the Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”), Utah’s highest appellate court, overturned a verdict in favor of the defendants in a medical malpractice case tried before a jury in 2008. The Utah Supreme Court found that the lawyers for the medica[...]

Massive New York Medicaid Drug Fraud Alleged

July 19, 2012

Federal prosecutors have charged 48 people in a massive Medicaid drug fraud scheme that cost taxpayers upwards of $500 million. The fraud allegedly involved Medicaid recipients who were prescribed expensive medications who sold their drugs to third-parties for cash. The third-parties then sold th[...]

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