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$905K West Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Resident’s Choking Death

November 2, 2018

On September 26, 2018, a West Virginia nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in the amount of $905,000 against a local West Virginia nursing home for its negligence and recklessness that resulted in the choking death of a 72-year-old resident on December 24, 2012. The West Virginia nursi[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Enforces Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Signed By Successor Attorney-In-Fact

August 25, 2018

The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 30, 2018 that a successor attoney-in-fact appointed in a durable power of attorney (“DPOA”) executed by a nursing home resident may bind the resident to an arbitrati[...]

$2M West Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Psychiatrist For Prescribing Toxic Dosage Of Celexa

June 4, 2018

On May 16, 2018, a West Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million against a West Virginia psychiatrist, for prescribing too high a dose of Celexa that allegedly led to the death of a 46-year-old man. The man’s parents filed the West Virgi[...]

West Virginia Federal Judge Finds Doctor Responsible For Newborn’s Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

February 5, 2018

The January 17, 2018 Order of a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia Martinsburg, which was issued following a bench trial regarding a medical malpractice claim arising out of the alleged negligent medical care of a newborn, stated that the new[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Was Filed After Statute Of Limitations Expired

December 3, 2017

The State of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) filed an opinion on November 17, 2017 in which it affirmed summary judgment in favor of the West Virginia medical malpractice defendants, finding that the West Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff had f[...]

$5.7M West Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Vocal Cord Paralysis From Thyroidectomy

October 21, 2017

Earlier this month a West Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,788,977.36 in favor of the 41-year-old plaintiff who suffered vocal cord paralysis following a thyroidectomy that the plaintiff alleged was due to the defendant surgeon negligently failing to protect[...]

Federal Judge Awards Maximum Allowable Damages In West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case

November 30, 2016

On November 15, 2016, a federal judge ruled in favor of a woman and her husband in a federal medical malpractice case, finding that the woman’s physician, who was a federal employee, acted with reckless disregard to a risk of harm to the woman, thereby leading the judge to award the plaintiffs[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Pediatrician’s Negligence Led To Child’s Vegetative State

July 18, 2016

A West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the parents of a 7-year-old child who is in a permanent vegetative state alleges that the defendant pediatrician’s medical negligence on numerous occasions in failing to timely and properly diagnose the child’s true medical condition l[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Death Following AICD Lead Wire Removal Procedure

July 3, 2016

The husband of a woman who died following alleged medical negligence that occurred during a procedure on June 4, 2014 to remove a lead wire of her automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (“AICD”) filed a federal medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in West Virginia on June[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Radiologist Who Missed Brain Tumor

June 28, 2016

A Huntington, West Virginia couple have filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against a radiologist and the radiology practice that employed him, alleging that the radiologist missed a brain tumor on a brain scan that he read that led to the untreated brain cancer growing until it could [...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Says Two-Year Statute Of Limitations In Medical Malpractice Cases Begins To Run On Date Of Death For Incompetent Victims

June 2, 2016

In its opinion filed on May 19, 2016, the Supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) held that the tolling provisions of the general disability savings statute apply to a medical malpractice cause of action brought by a personal representative. In the cas[...]

West Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Claim Alleges Poor Post-Hip Replacement Care Led To Patient’s Death

February 22, 2016

A West Virginia rehabilitation center (nursing home) and a West Virginia physician were named as defendants in a West Virginia nursing home negligence case that was recently filed in the Fayette County Court. The West Virginia patient had total hip replacement surgery on November 12, 2012 after whic[...]

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