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Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants For Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated

November 18, 2022

Judgment Based On Delayed Cancer Treatment While Incarcerated: Kahil Johnson (“K. Johnson”) filed a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit involving the cancer care provided to Thomas Johnson (“T. Johnson”) while he was incarcerated in Maryland, arguing that the three-month del[...]

Research Finds Pressure Ulcers Underreported In U.S. Nursing Homes

November 17, 2022

Research Finds Pressure Ulcers Underreported In U.S. Nursing Homes: An article published on August 4, 2022 in the journal Medical Care entitled “Accuracy of Pressure Ulcer Events in US Nursing Home Ratings” concluded: “Pressure ulcers were substantially underreported in data used b[...]

23-Year-Old Died At Yale-New Haven Hospital After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room For Over 7 hours

November 16, 2022

23-Year-Old Dead After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room: A recently filed Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 23-year-old man who was left alone and not checked on by medical staff during his seven hour stay in the emergency department of Yale-New Ha[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In tPA Stroke Case

November 15, 2022

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In tPA Stroke Case: In its Decision & Order dated August 17, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held: “the plaintiffs raised triable issues of fact as to whether Nandakumar departed from the accepted standard of care in his neurological[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Medical Residents Immune From Medical Malpractice Claims

November 14, 2022

Medical Residents Immune From Malpractice Claims: The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion issued on August 18, 2022: “we conclude that the doctors conclusively established that Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Affirms Expert Report Required In Nursing Home Resident’s Hip Fracture Wrongful Death Case

November 13, 2022

Expert Report Required In Hip Fracture Wrongful Death Case: The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated August 17, 2022 in a case involving a nursing home resident who suffered a hip fracture while being transferred into her wheelchair, “We do no[...]

Colorado Supreme Court Sides With Patient In Hospital Billing Dispute

November 12, 2022

Court Sides With Patient In Hospital Billing Dispute: Lisa Melody French (“French”) went to Centura Health Corporation and Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado d/b/a St. Anthony North Health Campus (collectively, “Centura”) for spinal fusion surgery. Upon reviewing French’s insuran[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rules Minor’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Was Filed Too Late

November 11, 2022

Minor’s Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Too Late: The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on August 16, 2022 in a North Carolina medical malpractice case involving a thirteen-year-old minor allegedly injured as a result of med[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late

November 10, 2022

Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late: Louisiana Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations – La. R.S. 9:5628(A) provides two periods for filing a malpractice action—either one year from the date of the alleged act, omission or neglect, or one year from the date of discovery of t[...]

$15M Alabama Jury Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old With Sickle Cell Disease In Foster Care

November 9, 2022

$15M Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old In Foster Care: On August 5, 2022, an Alabama jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a social worker employed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources and a foster care provider for their alleged negligence in the death of an 8-year-ol[...]

A Brief Early History Of The Filshie Clip (By Dr. Filshie Himself)

November 8, 2022

A Brief Early History Of The Filshie Clip: The following is an exchange between a moderator and Dr. Marcus Filshie that occurred during the November 2001 conference of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists in San Francisco, California: Hugo Verhoeven, MD: “Good afternoo[...]

Kaiser Family Foundation Reports 100 Million Americans Have Health Care Debt

November 7, 2022

100 Million Americans Have Health Care Debt: Benjamin Franklin once said, “God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.” The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently reported: “In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they’ve gone into debt because of medical or d[...]

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