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Wisconsin VA Medical Center Sued For Veteran’s Death

September 3, 2016

The family of a Marine veteran filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. in federal court on August 29, 2016, alleging that the Tomah, Wisconsin VA Medical Center’s treatment of the 35-year-old veteran of the Marine Corps was negligent, that the veteran’s mental[...]

Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Fired Heart Surgeon

August 19, 2016

On August 12, 2016, a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin against a hospital and its former heart surgeon, alleging that the heart surgeon’s medical negligence during open heart surgery led to a patient’s wrongful death shortly after his surgery. The defenda[...]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Based On Statute Of Limitations

July 5, 2016

In its opinion filed on June 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (“Wisconsin Supreme Court”) held that in a medical malpractice claim based on unnecessary and improper treatment of inappropriate touching, the “physical injurious change” occurs at the time of the touching[...]

Wisconsin $1.2B Medical Malpractice Fund Has $783M Surplus

April 13, 2016

A state audit of the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (“Fund”) reported in March that the Fund has a balance of $1.2 billion, which represents a surplus of $783 million in the Fund (the recommended range for the Fund is $86.4 million to $376.6 million). What Is T[...]

Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Reforms Have Led To Injustice For Medical Negligence Victims

March 28, 2015

The Yiddish term “chutzpah,” which means shameless audacity, can be best explained by the following example: after a young man was found guilty of brutally killing his parents, he begged the sentencing judge for leniency, noting that he was an orphan. Chutzpah may best describe the Wi[...]

$2.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Convicted Wisconsin Spine Surgeon

January 27, 2015

A Wisconsin medical malpractice case was settled for $2.5 million earlier this month just before it was scheduled to be tried before a jury beginning on January 6, 2015. The first $1 million of the malpractice settlement was paid by the former spine surgeon’s medical malpractice insurer, with[...]

Wisconsin Lawmaker Seeks To Help Parents Of Adult Children Who Die As A Result Of Medical Malpractice

January 5, 2015

Wisconsin, like many U.S. states, specifies which relatives of those who die as a result of the negligence of others, including medical malpractice, may seek and obtain compensation for their losses. While it is said that there is no greater pain than the pain associated with the death of one&#[...]

Medical Malpractice Reforms Have Gone Too Far – A Recent Wisconsin Case

October 8, 2014

A Wisconsin trial judge deciding post-trial motions filed by the parties in a Wisconsin medical malpractice case issued his October 3, 2014 Decision and Order finding that Wisconsin’s cap on noneconomic damages in the amount of $750,000 is unconstitutional as it applies to this case, under [...]

Wisconsin Trial Judges Question $1.15B Medical Malpractice Fund Balance

September 11, 2014

As part of Wisconsin’s medical malpractice reforms that include a limit on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that was set at $750,000 in 2006 (after the prior $350,000 cap was declared unconstitutional by the Wisconsin Supreme Court), Wisconsin legislators created the Injured[...]

The Failure Of Wisconsin’s Medical Mediation Panels

August 15, 2014

The Wisconsin Legislature created Medical Mediation Panels in 1986 in an effort to provide “an informal, inexpensive and expedient means for resolving medical malpractice disputes without litigation,” providing an early neutral evaluation that may reduce litigation costs by identifyin[...]

Milwaukee $25.3M Medical Malpractice Informed Consent Verdict

July 9, 2014

A Milwaukee couple received a $25.3 million Wisconsin medical malpractice verdict on July 7, 2014, after three weeks of trial, as a result of an undiagnosed serious bacterial infection that ultimately led to the woman having all of her limbs amputated. The verdict included $8.2 million for the woman[...]

Wisconsin’s Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Wreak Havoc On Malpractice Victims

July 5, 2014

Wisconsin has experienced a drop of more than one-half in the number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed since 1999: in 2013, only 140 medical malpractice lawsuits were filed in Wisconsin. While the Wisconsin health care industry groups contend that the drop in medical malpractice filings represen[...]

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