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12 Long Years To Obtain Justice In North Carolina Medical Malpractice Case

September 28, 2022

How long does it take to obtain justice in medical malpractice cases? A North Carolina medical malpractice case that was recently settled for $5 million shows how difficult and how long it may take to obtain some semblance of justice. The Hendersonville Lightening reported on July 4, 2022 the follow[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Medical Malpractice Claim

September 27, 2022

Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Malpractice: As Leegwater, a registered nurse working in the defendant hospital’s emergency department, pushed the stretcher through the doorway to the radiology suite, 97-year-old Elaine Quick apparently moved her left leg through [...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Florida Nursing Home Pays $1.75M To Settle False Claims Act Allegations Concerning COVID-19 Vaccinations Provided To Ineligible Donors And Prospective Donors

September 26, 2022

The United States Department of Justice announced on June 30, 2022 that MorseLife Health System Inc. (MorseLife) agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act for facilitating COVID-19 vaccinations for hundreds of individuals ineligible to participate in t[...]

Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Laws

September 25, 2022

Massachusetts medical malpractice laws were changed in 2012 with the addition of MGL c. 231 s.60L, which establishes a process and time frame for patients and doctors to discuss alleged mistakes by health care providers, and attempt to settle claims without going to court. Under this law, a health c[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Claim For Fall In Hospital Bathroom Is Medical Malpractice Claim

September 24, 2022

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its Per Curiam unpublished Opinion dated June 16, 2022 that the plaintiff’s claim involving the alleged failure of hospital staff to monitor him while he was in the bathroom when they knew he was a fall ris[...]

Can You Record An Independent Medical Examination In A Medical Malpractice Case?

September 23, 2022

Often times in medical malpractice and other personal injury cases that are in litigation, the defense requests that the plaintiff submit to an “independent” medical examination (“IME”) by a health care professional chosen by the defense (we place “independent” in[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert’s Testimony Properly Excluded In Birth Injury Case

September 23, 2022

Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert’s Testimony Properly Excluded: The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed in its unreported opinion dated September 14, 2022 that “while a sufficient fac[...]

Texas Anesthesiologist Charged With Alleged Tampering With IV Bags Implicated In Death, Surgical Emergencies

September 22, 2022

Anesthesiologist Implicated In Death after Tampering With IV Bags: The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Texas announced on September 15, 2022 that Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, a Dallas anesthesiologist, allegedly injected nerve blocking agents and other drugs int[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment In Favor Of Nursing Home

September 22, 2022

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum and Order entered on January 28, 2022: “Here, defendant’s experts proffered opinions about decedent’s care at the nursing home facility [...]

Florida Physical Therapy Clinic Owners, Employees Sentenced For Multiple Fraud Schemes

September 21, 2022

Physical Therapy Clinic Owners & Employees Sentenced For Multiple Fraud Schemes: The U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida announced that a federal district judge in Miami sentenced the last of five defendants for his role in a health care fraud scheme operated out of a physical [...]

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed In Ohio

September 21, 2022

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed In Ohio: A federal lawsuit filed on April 4, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Western Division alleges, in part, that “Ms. Farson was implanted with a female birth control device known as a Filshie Clip. In short, t[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Grants Summary Judgment For Defendant In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

September 20, 2022

In an Iowa medical malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose kidney cancer, the Supreme Court of Iowa stated in its opinion filed on April 22, 2022, “When the underlying cause of action is one for failure to disclose a medical condition, as here, a defendant’s continued failure to d[...]

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