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New Mexico Supreme Court Discusses Application Of Collateral Source Rule

August 27, 2023

Court Discusses Application Of Collateral Source Rule: New Mexico does not allow duplication of damages or double recovery for injuries received. The rule prohibiting double recovery is founded on the principle that a claimant is only entitled to one payment of its loss and that an injured party sho[...]

$9 Million Maryland Nursing Home Bedsore Verdict

August 26, 2023

$9 Million Bedsore Verdict: A Baltimore County Maryland nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of a nursing home resident who developed bedsores at a local nursing home where he had been a resident for about six months after he suffered a stroke. The six-person jury awarded $8 mi[...]

$6M Iowa Nursing Home Verdict Vacated Because Of Improper Evidence Admitted During Trial

August 25, 2023

$6M Iowa Nursing Home Verdict Vacated: The Court of Appeals of Iowa on June 21, 2023 vacated a $6 million verdict against a nursing home stating, “We find the prior bad acts testimony about Blakesley toward other residents from Brandt, Armstrong, Haugen, Thompson, and Morris, as well as Beck�[...]

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Medical Malpractice Case

August 24, 2023

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Case: In June 2023, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after four hours of deliberations and a four-day trial in favor of the defendant gastroenterologist who was the attending physician for a nine-year-old patient who went i[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Physician Not Qualified To Testify As To Nursing Standard Of Care

August 23, 2023

Underlying Facts Court Holds Physician Not Qualified To Testify As To Nursing Standard Of Care: In October 2013, Marie Smaha had surgery at The Medical Center of Central Georgia to remove her left kidney. Several days later, while recovering in the hospital, Smaha suffered from internal bleeding and[...]

Lawsuit Alleges Physician Responsible For Husband's Death

$7.25M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aortic Dissection In Hospital

August 22, 2023

$7.25M Settlement For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aortic Dissection: Shortly before a Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial was scheduled to begin on June 12, 2023, the family of a 32-year-old woman who died from an undiagnosed aortic dissection while in the hospital settled the case, with the family [...]

Medical Mistreatment Of Women In ICE Detention

August 21, 2023

Medical Mistreatment Of Women In ICE Detention: The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate issued a Staff Report on November 15, 20922 entitled “Medical Mistreatment of Women in ICE Detention” which stated, in part: In May 2021, the Permanent Subcommittee on[...]

Letter To Congress Stresses Need For Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes

August 20, 2023

Infection Prevention And Control In Nursing Homes: In its June 16, 2023 letter to the United States Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) stated, “Despite years of government reports sounding the alarm about infection control lapses in nursing[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules FCA’s Scienter Element Refers To Respondents’ Knowledge And Subjective Belief

August 19, 2023

Court Rules On Knowledge And Subjective Belief Case: In its Opinion filed on June 1, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the False Claims Act’s scienter element refers to a defendant’s knowledge and subjective beliefs—not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Has Broad Right To Dismiss False Claims Act Cases

August 18, 2023

Government Has Broad Right To Dismiss False Claims Act Cases: One useful and effective avenue to recover money erroneously spent by the U.S. government on fraudulent health care claims has been the False Claims Act, which allows lawsuits to be filed by whistleblowers under its qui tam provisions. Un[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Rules Mental Health Records Not Discoverable In Lung Cancer Malpractice Case

August 17, 2023

Court Rules Mental Health Records Not Discoverable: The Appellate Court of Illinois First District Third Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) stated in its May 10, 2023 opinion: “Dr. Rao practices at a clinic that specialized in lung issues. Plaintiff was there presumably seeking [...]

$1.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis

August 16, 2023

$1.5M For Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis: On February 21, 2023, during mediation, a Virginia medical malpractice case alleging that the defendant gastroenterologist breached the standard of care by delaying the scheduling of a colonoscopy for a patient with a medical history of ulcerative colitis an[...]

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