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Study Finds Nursing Home Falls And Pressure Ulcers Underreported

July 12, 2023

Nursing Home Falls And Pressure Ulcers Underreported: A study published on May 23, 2023 in JAMA Network entitled “Underreporting of Quality Measures and Associated Facility Characteristics and Racial Disparities in US Nursing Home Ratings” investigated what extent are nursing home charac[...]

Arizona Appellate Court Rules No Expert Needed In Cipro Failure To Warn Medical Malpractice Case

July 11, 2023

Court Rules No Expert Needed In Cipro Failure: David Francisco and his wife, Kimberley Francisco, appealed the superior court’s dismissal with prejudice of their medical negligence claim against Kevin Art, M.D. (“Dr. Art”) and Affiliated Urologists, Ltd. (collectively, “the Practice”) base[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Against Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

July 10, 2023

Court Revives Case Against Quest Diagnostics: In her New Jersey medical malpractice action, plaintiff Maryanne Cenni alleged that Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings and its employees (collectively LabCorp) failed to properly interpret plaintiff’s annual cervical cytology (Pap smear) sl[...]

Florida Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer Can’t Find A Lawyer To Represent Her

July 9, 2023

Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer: 59-year-old Judy Karpinski underwent a biopsy in September 2021 of two small bumps on her shoulder and her back at Bay Dermatology in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The tissue samples from the biopsy were then sent to UF Health for evaluation. Two days before Christmas, Kar[...]

$1.4M Settlement For Failure To Diagnose Prostate Cancer Recurrence

July 8, 2023

$1.4M Settlement For Failure To Diagnose Prostate Cancer Recurrence: On September 27, 2022, a Virginia medical malpractice case involving the failure to timely diagnose recurrence of prostate cancer in a man in his early sixties who had previously undergone a radical protastectomy was resolved durin[...]

Report: Healthcare-Associated Infections Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic

July 7, 2023

Healthcare-Associated Infections Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization founded by large employers and others in 2000 that drives a movement for giant leaps for patient safety, issued a report on May 3, 2023 entitled “New Leapfrog Hospital Saf[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds SmileDirectClub Member Must Arbitrate His Product Liability Claim

July 6, 2023

Court Holds SmileDirectClub Member Must Arbitrate: SmileDirectClub, LLC (SDC) offers a telemedicine platform that enables affiliated dentists and orthodontists to provide clear-aligner treatment as an alternative to traditional orthodontic braces. To receive treatment and aligners via the internet, [...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Claims Involving Heart Medication Amiodarone

July 5, 2023

Heart Medication Amiodarone Related Case Dismissed: Amiodarone is the generic form of the brand-name drug Cordarone. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (“Teva”) is a manufacturer of generic Amiodarone. Amiodarone is a drug of “last resort” for patients suffering from ventricular fibrillat[...]

AMA Report On Medical Malpractice Statistics In The United States For 2020-2022

July 4, 2023

AMA Report On Medical Malpractice Statistics: Sixty five percent of medical malpractice claims that closed between 2016 and 2018 were dropped, dismissed or withdrawn, and out of the 6 percent of claims that were decided by a trial verdict, 89 percent were won by the defendant. After being similar in[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Jury’s Award For Loss Of Material Services Beyond The Date Of Remarriage In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

July 3, 2023

Jury’s Award Affirmed In Remarriage Malpractice Wrongful Death Case: The issue decided by the Appellate Court of Illinois Third District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) in it opinion dated May 10, 2023 was whether it was proper for a medical malpractice jury to consider damages for th[...]

$2M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Loss Of Sight After Cataract Surgery

July 2, 2023

$2M For Loss Of Sight After Cataract Surgery: On March 22, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million for a man who lost his sight in one eye due to an infection he suffered after undergoing cataract surgery. According to reports, the cataract surgeon [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Due To Defective Affidavit Of Merit

July 1, 2023

Case Dismissed Due To Defective Affidavit Of Merit: Alexandrianna Lowe (Lowe) was admitted to Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) from July 20, 2018 through July 22, 2018 through the Emergency Department. Defendant Michael P. Carson, M.D. was the admitting physician. L[...]

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