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Medical Error

August 31, 2022

Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with over 400,000 deaths every year. Medical error as the cause of death has been underestimated because medical error is not a category of cause of death stated in death certificates. 21% of adults in the United States report h[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$15.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist For Permanent Paralysis

August 31, 2022

$15.5 Million Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist: Earlier in August 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15.5 million against neurosurgeon Mark A. Fulton, M.D., whom the jury determined to have failed to diagnose and subsequently treat a patient&#[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Lawyer’s Legal Error Cannot Save Wrongful Death Claim

August 31, 2022

Jason Parrish, in his capacity as parent of minor child S. P., consented to an order dismissing with prejudice S. P.’s wrongful death claims against two defendants in this multi-party medical malpractice/wrongful death litigation. Later, represented by new counsel, Parrish moved to vacate that ord[...]

Actor Bill Paxton Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled

August 30, 2022

Actor Bill Paxton Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled: The California medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of actor Bill Paxton against a Los Angeles hospital and a cardiac surgeon reportedly has been settled for an undisclosed sum. Bill Paxton died on Februa[...]

Iowa Medical Malpractice Statistics

August 30, 2022

The Iowa Insurance Division requested open and closed claim data for calendar year 2020 from licensed insurance companies pursuant to Iowa Code Section 505.27. Licensed companies who wrote medical malpractice insurance in Iowa during the period from January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 were ask[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Claim Against Ophthalmologist

August 29, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on February 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit filed a claim against an ophthalmologist for alleged medical negligence in diagnosing a seven-year-old’s occipital tumor,[...]

$21 Million Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiscovered Perforated Bowel During Hernia Surgery

August 29, 2022

$21 Million Verdict For Undiscovered Perforated Bowel During Surgery: Earlier this month, a Kentucky medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman who suffered a perforated bowel during hernia surgery on May 31, 2013 that was not discovered until ten days after surgery. As a resu[...]

Maryland Is First State To Accept Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Data From Hospitals

August 28, 2022

Maryland has partnered with CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), and Medisolv, a leader in quality management software, to become the first state in the country to successfully receive Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data from Maryland hospitals under a [...]

Florida To Receive More Than $870 Million For Opioid Abatement From Settlements With CVS, Teva, Allergan, And Endo

August 27, 2022

The Florida Attorney General announced on March 30, 2022 the securement of more than $870 million for opioid abatement from CVS Health Corporation, CVS Pharmacy, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., and Allergan PLC. CVS will pay $484 million to the State of Florida, Teva will pay nearly $195[...]

North Carolina Supreme Court Extends Medical Malpractice Liability To Nurses

August 27, 2022

In its opinion filed on August 19, 2022, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Court”) overturned 90-years of precedent to extend medical malpractice liability to nurses: “The trial court’s evidentiary ruling, and the Court of Appeals’ affirmance of it, was dictated by the appl[...]

Washington Supreme Court Holds Informed Consent Claim Cannot Be Based Solely On Misdiagnosis

August 26, 2022

The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 2, 2022, “This case addresses the difference between two claims that arose from the same accident and that were based on the same medical care: a medical malpractice claim and a failure [...]

Maryland Highest Appellate Court Rules Summary Judgment For Defendants In Dental Malpractice Case Based On Plaintiff’s Experts’ Testimony Was Inappropriate

August 25, 2022

Summary Judgment In Dental Case Ruled Inappropriate By Court: The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, stated in its opinion filed on August 25, 2022 in a dental malpractice case involving the bilateral severing of the patie[...]

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Medical Error

$15.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist For Permanent Paralysis

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Lawyer’s Legal Error Cannot Save Wrongful Death Claim

Actor Bill Paxton Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled

Iowa Medical Malpractice Statistics

Texas Appellate Court Holds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Claim Against Ophthalmologist

$21 Million Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiscovered Perforated Bowel During Hernia Surgery

Maryland Is First State To Accept Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Data From Hospitals

Florida To Receive More Than $870 Million For Opioid Abatement From Settlements With CVS, Teva, Allergan, And Endo

North Carolina Supreme Court Extends Medical Malpractice Liability To Nurses

Maryland Highest Appellate Court Rules Summary Judgment For Defendants In Dental Malpractice Case Based On Plaintiff’s Experts’ Testimony Was Inappropriate

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