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Virginia Appellate Court Rules Trial Judge Improperly Struck Plaintiff’s Expert In Nursing Home Death Case

November 26, 2024

88-year-old Fred Hodnett was a patient at a Pittsylvania County nursing home operated by three entities—Medical Facilities of America, Inc., Medical Facilities of America LIII (53) L.P., and Gretna Health Care Center II, L.P. (“Defendants”). The administrator of Fred Hodnett’s es[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants Due To Lack Of Causation Of Damages Expert Testimony

November 11, 2024

On January 16, 2019, the plaintiff filed a Virginia medical malpractice claim against Nurse PractitionerDarlene Olive; her company, Working Well, LLC; her supervising doctor, Dr. James W. Ross; and Dr. Ross’s company, Virginia Industrial Medicine. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants’ n[...]

$1,175,000 Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Misread EKG

October 24, 2024

On March 11, 2024, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death claim against a cardiologist who allegedly misread/misinterpreted the decedent’s EKG that was taken in the patient’s primary care physician’s office the day before, was reportedly settled for $1,175,000. The patient h[...]

Maryland Supreme Court Applies Lex Loci Delicti Doctrine In Finding That Virginia’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

October 7, 2024

In its Opinion filed on July 31, 2024, the Supreme Court of Maryland held that the Appellate Court of Maryland properly applied Virginia substantive law in accordance with the doctrine of lex loci delicti. Pursuant to that doctrine, which requires the application of the substantive law of the state [...]

Legal Malpractice Case Reinstated Against Virginia Medical Malpractice Law Firm

September 19, 2024

In September 2016, Melissa Trent had surgery on her left knee to install a “Sigma” knee replacement device, which was manufactured and sold by “DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.” In addition to Sigma, DePuy also sells a different knee replacement called “Attune” that had not been used for Trent�[...]

$1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Bladder Perforation And Ureter Transection During Hysterectomy

September 1, 2024

A 46-year-old woman with a history of uterine fibroids and menorrhagia underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy during which the surgeon transected the patient’s right ureter and also sutured her bladder wall to the vaginal cuff, which resulted in the complete perf[...]

$1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement From Anesthesiologist For Avoidable Aspiration During Surgery

August 31, 2024

A patient in Virginia who had resection surgery to treat his colorectal cancer was admitted to the hospital following his surgery, for monitoring. During the ensuing days in the hospital, the patient began suffering nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and abdominal distension for which a drain tube wa[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Merely Responding To Emails From Virginia Resident Does Not Permit Medical Malpractice Claim To Be Brought Against Out-Of-State Defendants In Virginia

July 20, 2024

Virginia’s Long-Arm Statute Virginia’s long-arm statute provides that a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who transacts business in the Commonwealth or “caus[es] injury in this Commonwealth by an act or omission outside this Commonwealth if he regularly does or solicit[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Reverses Remittitur Order In Medical Malpractice Case

July 4, 2024

In 2019, Anthonette Jasco (“Jasco”) filed a Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that Lawrence Shall, M.D. and his employer, Vann-Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, P.C., were negligent in failing to properly diagnose and treat her knee injury, which resulted in complex surgery, [...]

$1.6M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Upended For Refusal To Provide Jury With Defendants’ Requested Jury Instruction

June 17, 2024

Patricia Hanger alleged that Dr. Allison L. Raines and Emergency Physicians of Tidewater, PLC negligently failed to treatHanger’s low blood sodium. Hanger maintained that it was this negligence which caused her to suffer a seizure, resulting in a traumatic brain injury from a fall. The defendants [...]

Virginia Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Where Plaintiff Filed For Bankruptcy After Filing Lawsuit

June 16, 2024

The Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Virginia Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion filed on January 30, 2024: “Shaw-McDonald had standing when she sued defendants. Although her malpractice claim was temporarily transferred to the bankruptcy estate when she filed her Chapte[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Survives Jury Instructions Challenge

June 7, 2024

Kimberly Burch, the administrator of the estate of Joan Ison, sued Dr. Jeff Sensenig and other medical professionals for failing to diagnose Ison with a symptomatic aortic aneurysm that ruptured and caused her death. The Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a defense verdict. On appeal, Burch [...]

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