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New York Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ophthalmologist Involving Cataract Surgery

May 13, 2022

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its decision dated March 1, 2022 in a New York medical malpractice case against an ophthalmologist that alleged medical negligence led to the plaintiff’s subsequent blindn[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Finds Continuing Course Of Treatment Doctrine Did Not Apply In Dental Malpractice Case

May 12, 2022

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) discussed the continuing course of treatment doctrine in its opinion filed on March 1, 2022 in a North Carolina dental malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that during a wisdom tooth extraction performed by[...]

Medical Malpractice Caps Result In 16% Increase In Adverse Events

May 11, 2022

A policy paper published in May 2022 entitled The California Malpractice Cap on Noneconomic Losses: Unintended Consequences and Arguments for Reform stated, “the introduction of caps on noneconomic damages are associated with a 16% increase in adverse events. Given this, it is likely that repe[...]

Federal Government Agrees To Pay $10M For Failure To Report Suspected Child Abuse in Maine

May 10, 2022

It has been reported that the federal government has agreed to settle the claims of a Maine mother who alleged that a federally-funded medical clinic in Maine failed to report the suspected physical abuse of her then six-and-a-half-month-old child. The now three-and-a-half-year-old child allegedly w[...]

$742,660 Maryland Wrongful Birth/Negligent Sterilization Verdict

May 9, 2022

During the evening on April 14, 2022, a Montgomery County, Maryland wrongful birth/negligent sterilization medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after four full days of trial in favor of the parents against the OBGYN defendant. The Underlying Facts One doctor (Defendant One) in a shared pati[...]

IVC Filter Plaintiffs Attorney’s Neglect Results In Dismissal Of Four Plaintiffs’ IVC Filter Claims

May 8, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit stated in its February 28, 2022 opinion in four MDL IVC filter ligation cases, “Lawyers make mistakes. Sometimes they are small and fixable. Other times the consequences are inescapable. Unfortunately for attorney Nicholas Farnolo’s [...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Applies No Felony Conviction Recovery Rule To Affirm Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case

May 7, 2022

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated January 26, 2022: “the Medical Defendants contend that the trial court erred in overruling their preliminary objection seeking dismissal of all claims for compensatory damages. The Medic[...]

Texas Supreme Court Rules Nursing Home’s Policies And Procedures Not Discoverable Before Plaintiff’s Expert Report Is Due

May 6, 2022

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) stated in its opinion filed on February 25, 2022: “we examine the scope of discovery that the Texas Medical Liability Act permits before the plaintiff serves the expert report that the Act requires. The trial court declined to comp[...]

Florida Appellate Court Rules Claim For Injuries From Fall From Surgical Table In Medical Facility Was For Ordinary Negligence

May 5, 2022

The Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated January 26, 2022: “The complaint asserted that Bloomer sustained injuries when a surgical table collapsed underneath him while he was undergoing sedation in preparation for e[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds That Prior Pending Action Doctrine Misapplied In Federal Medical Malpractice Case In Puerto Rico

May 3, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its February 25. 2022 opinion in a Puerto Rico federal medical malpractice case that the United States District Court had dismissed: “This appeal requires us to examine the framework go[...]

Rhode Island Supreme Court Orders New Trial Where Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney Made Improper Closing Argument

May 2, 2022

The Rhode Island Supreme Court held in its February 22, 2022 opinion in a Rhode Island medical malpractice case in which a premature baby received total parenteral nutrition (TPN) through a peripheral intravenous line (IV) in her left foot that escaped the IV line and was instead going into the surr[...]

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