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$600K Iowa Medical Malpractice Settlement In Loss Of Chance For Better Outcome Cancer Case

August 3, 2022

$600K Iowa Malpractice Settlement: It has been reported that University of Iowa Physicians has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the wife of a 67-year-old man who died on August 29, 2015 from complications arising from a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor. The Iowa medical malpracti[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Holds Medical Malpractice Act Does Not Apply To Indemnification Claim Between Medical Providers

August 2, 2022

Court Holds Malpractice Act Does Not Apply To Indemnification Claim: In its opinion dated March 8, 2022, the Indiana Supreme Court stated: “Today, we’re asked to extend the reach of the Medical Malpractice Act (MMA or Act) to include a claim for indemnification by one medical provider agains[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Filshie Clip Migration Case Report From Canada

August 1, 2022

Filshie Clip Migration Case Report From Canada: A Filshie clip migration case report from Canada entitled “Migrated Tubal Ligation (Filshie) Clip as an Uncommon Cause of Chronic Abdominal Pain” states: “Tubal ligation (TL) is an eﬀective and common method of fertility control. In[...]

Teva Announces $4.35 Billion Nationwide Settlement Of Opioid Lawsuits

August 1, 2022

Teva Announces $4.35 Billion Nationwide Settlement Of Opioid Lawsuits: In reporting its Second Quarter 2022 Consolidated Financial Results, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. (“Teva”) announced its $4.35 billion settlement of nationwide lawsuits alleging its role in the nationwide opio[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable For Actions Of Trauma Surgeon

July 31, 2022

Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable : Under the doctrine of apparent agency, an entity may be found vicariously liable to a third party for the negligence of its apparent agent if (1) the entity represents, or acquiesces in the appearance, that an individual is its agent; (2) the third party rel[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Rules Estate’s Medical Malpractice Claim Filed Too Late

July 30, 2022

Court Rules Estate’s Medical Malpractice Claim Filed Too Late: The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its May 11, 2022 Memorandum Decision “because the Estate sued for medical malpractice and possessed the medical records on which it bases its cla[...]

$14.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Profound Brain Injury During Ear Surgery

July 29, 2022

$14.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Profound Brain Injury During Ear Surgery $14.2M Verdict For Child’s Profound Brain Injury: A federal judge in Maryland has awarded $14.2 million, including $11 million in future medical expenses, for the catastrophic and permanent b[...]

$30M Georgia Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict

July 28, 2022

$30M Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict: On July 22, 2022, a Georgia medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $30 million in favor of the plaintiff in a case against a hospital and an obstetrician regarding the severe birth injuries suffered by a newborn during labor[...]

$18 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer In 22-Year-old

July 27, 2022

$18 Million Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer: After a two-week trial that ended on July 22, 2022, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $18 million in favor of a now 26-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undiagnosed because her health care provider [...]

Massachusetts Will Pay $56 Million To Settle Nursing Home COVID-19 Class Action Lawsuit

July 26, 2022

Massachusetts Will Pay $56 Million To Settle COVID-19 Lawsuit: Massachusetts has agreed to pay $56 million to settle a class action lawsuit involving the COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in the spring of 2020. The settlement covers veterans who lived at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home [...]

New Mexico $1.265 Million Late Abortion Death Settlement

July 25, 2022

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (“UNMHSC”) and Southwestern Women’s Options, a private late-term abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have settled claims by the estate of a 23-year-old woman who died as a result of a late-term abortion performed at 24 weeks. [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Overturns Board Of Physician’s Disciplinary Action Against Highly Distinguished Research Physician

July 24, 2022

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) stated in its unreported opinion filed on May 6, 2022, “We agree with the circuit court that the disciplinary panel failed to exercise any discretion, but instead applied an inflexible rule that requires the impo[...]

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