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$5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 25, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury in Howard County, Maryland has awarded the plaintiff in excess of $5 million for permanent damage sustained to her pancreas as a result of an allegedly botched diagnostic procedure that the defendant gastroenterologist had performed in 2014. The Maryland medical m[...]

$7.6M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation Caused By Medical Negligence

May 24, 2022

In mid-May 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a former firefighter who suffered an above the knee amputation of his right leg after a doctor misdiagnosed a bacterial infection as a sprain. The May 19, 2022 verdict after an eight-day trial resulted in the retire[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Reports Were Sufficient When Considered Together In Health Care Liability Case

May 23, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals stated in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice case where the defendants challenged the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s experts’ reports: “Appellee is permitted to rely on more than one expert report in m[...]

$111M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Compartment Syndrome Verdict

May 22, 2022

On May 16, 2022, a Minnesota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $111 million in favor of a 25-year-old who had been injured in January 2017 while playing soccer at a pickup soccer game at St. Cloud State University. The plaintiff was injured when another soccer player tackled[...]

Wisconsin Dentist Convicted Of Healthcare Fraud For Intentionally Breaking Patients’ Teeth

May 21, 2022

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 10, 2022, 61-year-old dentist Scott Charmoli was convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false statements related to healthcare matters. The evidence presented at trial established that[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms Wrongful Death Verdict Against Nursing Home

May 20, 2022

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) unpublished opinion dated March 4, 2022 affirmed a jury’s verdict against a nursing home for the wrongful death of a resident due to the failure to provide appropriate bowel and nutritional management, cathe[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Applies Relation Back Doctrine In Allowing Counterclaim Of Former Patient Against Defendant Mental Health Facility

May 19, 2022

On December 7, 2017, plaintiff sustained severe bodily injuries near her home in Brooklyn, New York, when Michael Gitelis assaulted her. After knocking plaintiff to the ground, Gitelis jumped into her Toyota Camry, put the car in reverse, and struck her with the car. A day earlier, Gitelis had been [...]

Nearly $3 Million Celexa Suicide Verdict In Texas

May 18, 2022

On May 13, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,979,523 for an elderly man who committed suicide shortly after being placed on the anti-anxiety medication Celexa (Citalopram). The defendants were his primary care physician and his medical pra[...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Reinstates Stillborn Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Claim

May 17, 2022

In its opinion filed on March 9, 2022, the Arkansas Court of Appeals Division I (“Arkansas Appellate Court”) held in an Arkansas medical malpractice wrongful death case involving the stillborn delivery of a baby: “We affirm the dismissal of the amended survival claim because the in[...]

New York Appellate Court Holds Lavern’s Law Did Not Apply To Plaintiff’s Misdiagnosis Of Cancer Claim

May 16, 2022

Plaintiff’s New York medical malpractice complaint alleged that on May 16, 2014, defendant radiologist reviewed a CT scan of plaintiff’s abdomen and pelvis, which revealed nodular densities in the right lower lobe of the lung. The defendant recommended a dedicated CT scan of the chest to[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against OB For Baby’s Birth Injuries

May 15, 2022

Background Facts Terri Franklin began taking Benicar to treat her high blood pressure in February 2009. She learned that she was pregnant with Kendyl in August of 2010, and a friend recommended Alvin Sermons, M.D. as an obstetrician. Franklin testified that at her first appointment with Sermons, on [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Hospital’s Arbitration Agreement Did Not Apply To Unborn Baby’s Malpractice Claim

May 14, 2022

Jacqueline Kingston van Engelen (“Jackie”) went to Emory Healthcare, Inc.’s Emory Johns Creek Hospital with vaginal bleeding on July 10, 2019, while she was 31 weeks pregnant. She was discharged but returned the next morning on July 11, 2019, this time with vaginal bleeding and con[...]

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