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45% Of Nursing Home Staff Turnover Is Unreported

July 9, 2026

In 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) incorporated annual turnover into Five-Star Ratings but adopted a definition excluding staff below a 120-hour-in-90-days threshold. By 2022-2023, 45% of nursing hires were excluded under CMS’s definition of turnover and therefore [...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Robotic Hysterectomy Went Terribly Wrong

July 8, 2026

A Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a surgeon and a hospital in Georgia alleges that the plaintiff had gone into the hospital for what was supposed to be a same-day stay for a robotic hysterectomy but turned into a three-month hospital stay. She alleges that she was in a coma after t[...]

Maryland Supreme Court Holds Health Insurer Must Cover Embryo Thawing Expenses For IVF Procedures

July 7, 2026

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Maryland on April 27, 2026, the Court stated that the primary question was whether the petitioner, CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc., breached its contractual obligation to its insureds, respondents Matthew and Jamie Skipper, when it denied coverage for embryo thaw[...]

$25M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Sepsis

July 6, 2026

On July 1, 2026, an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $25 million for the death of an Ohio man whose sepsis was allegedly not timely diagnosed and treated by a hospital in October 2021, leading to a hemorrhagic stroke and subsequent death due to bacte[...]

Optometrists Have Few Medical Malpractice Payouts

July 5, 2026

A study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Optometry on April 27, 2026 entitled Malpractice payments by optometrists in the United States: An analysis of the National Practitioner Data Bank from 1996 to 2023 reported that “[m]alpractice payments involving optometrists remain i[...]

Boston Scientific Issues “Correction” Regarding Massive Recall Of Implantable Pacemakers

July 4, 2026

Boston Scientific’s ACCOLADE family of implantable pacemakers provide dual chamber (atrial and ventricular) bradycardia pacing and adaptive rate pacing to detect and treat bradyarrhythmias. In late 2024, Boston Scientific identified a subpopulation of the ACCOLADE family of pacemakers a[...]

Federal Appellate Court Finds Personal Jurisdiction Proper In Washington State Over Idaho Medical Malpractice Defendants

July 3, 2026

In its published Order and Amended Opinion dated March 16, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction of a wrongful-death and survivor action brought by the Estate of Susan Cox and Susan’s husband Mark [...]

$825K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bladder Injury During C-Section

July 2, 2026

On June 15, 2026, a Montgomery County, Maryland medical malpractice jury deliberated for two and a half hours after a six-day trial before awarding a then 33-year-old woman who was injured during a C-section delivery of her second child $750,000 in noneconomic damages for pain and suffering and $75,[...]

$10M Cincinnati Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Hospital Psych Unit Nurses’ Failure To Treat Medical Condition

July 1, 2026

When a sixty-nine-year-old woman who was always active and aware suddenly showed signs of confusion and paranoia in March 2020, she was admitted to the Geriatric Psychiatric Unit of Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Six days later, she died in the hospital. The family’s wrongful death med[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Pro Se Plaintiff’s EMTALA Complaint

June 30, 2026

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the pro se plaintiff’s EMTALA complaint in its unpublished Opinion filed on May 5, 2026, stating, in part: “Here, the district court properly determined that Plaintiffs failed to allege sufficient facts[...]

Maryland Settles EpiPen Claims Against Mylan, Inc.

June 29, 2026

On May 4, 2026, Maryland’s Attorney General announced that the Antitrust Division reached a settlement with Mylan Inc. (Mylan), the company that sells the EpiPen®, resolving concerns about anticompetitive conduct involving the cost, marketing, and availability of EpiPen products. The Ep[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Immunity For Mental Health Provider

June 28, 2026

On October 15, 2024, Brandi Booth filed a negligence, wrongful death, and survivorship action against Dr. Jonathan Lazzara. The complaint alleged that Dr. Lazzara acted negligently in the treatment, care, diagnosis, and discharge of her husband, Dustin Booth, a patient Dr. Lazzara treated between Fe[...]

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