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Virginia Supreme Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert Qualified To Give Her Opinions

April 5, 2018

In its opinion filed on February 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) ruled that the circuit court abused its discretion when it refused to qualify the Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff’s only proposed expert witness under Code § 8.01-581.20. In a ca[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Verdict For Plaintiff For Failure To Prove Causation

March 12, 2018

In its opinion filed on February 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) overturned the $652,000 jury award in favor of the plaintiff in a Virginia medical malpractice case, holding that the circuit court erred in denying the defendant surgeon’s motion to[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Overturns Plaintiff’s “Wrong Breast” Surgery Medical Malpractice Win

August 15, 2017

In its opinion filed on July 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) reversed and remanded the Virginia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff, who alleged that the defendant surgeon operated on both of her breasts after she withdrew[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Unsupported Expert Opinion

May 5, 2017

In its opinion filed on April 13, 2017, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) reversed a Virginia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the defendant otolaryngologist involving the unexpected death of a child during the afternoon following outpatient[...]

$5.13M Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Surgical Fire

April 11, 2017

A Fairfax County, Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on March 2, 2017 in the amount of $5.13 million in favor of the plaintiff for the permanent and extensive facial and other burns she suffered as a result of a surgical fire that happened in the operating room of a local hospita[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Discusses When Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act Applies

March 19, 2017

In its opinion filed on February 28, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the decision of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”) that the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (“Act”), [...]

Virginia Supreme Court Discusses Battery Claims In Medical Malpractice Cases

February 18, 2017

The Supreme Court of Virginia (“the Court”) issued an opinion on February 2, 2017 in which it determined that the action of a surgeon who had mistakenly fused the wrong level on the plaintiff’s cervical spine (operating on level C6-C7 instead of C5-C6) did not constitute a battery.[...]

Virginia Nursing Home Allegedly Tied Resident To Wheelchair, Injected Her With Sedative

January 20, 2017

An 84-year-old former resident of a Virginia nursing home, and her daughter, have filed a Virginia nursing home abuse lawsuit in which they allege that two nurses at the defendant nursing home tied the resident to her wheelchair with bed sheets and then injected her with narcotic sedatives to keep h[...]

Virginia Jail Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Medication Withdrawal Leading To Death

December 16, 2016

The family of a Virginia jail inmate who died while in custody filed a federal jail medical malpractice lawsuit on December 1, 2016 against numerous defendants for the death of the 26-year-old man who had informed the jail medical personnel that he was addicted to Xanax but the staff wrote down on t[...]

$1.875M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Nurse’s Negligence Following Gallbladder Surgery

January 18, 2016

A North Carolina woman had elevated liver enzymes that led to her have her gallbladder removed during laparoscopic surgery (i.e., laparoscopic cholecystectomy) in Virginia. During the procedure, the surgeon improperly cut the woman’s common hepatic duct and her left and right hepatic ducts, ac[...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Medical Malpractice Cardiac Death Case

September 2, 2015

On August 27, 2015, after a four-day trial and two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a Virginia hospital and a nurse in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case filed by the widow of a man who was declared brain dead after he u[...]

Anesthesiologist Who Bad-Mouthed Sedated Patient Held Accountable By Jury Verdict

June 27, 2015

A patient who was scheduled to undergo a colonoscopy decided that he would record the gastroenterologist’s post-procedure instructions so that he would not forget what was told to him. The patient therefore pressed record on his smartphone’s audio recorder. What the patient did not know[...]

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