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Maryland Appellate Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case For New Trial On Some Issues

March 12, 2026

In its reported Opinion filed on February 27, 2026, the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled as follows: Medical Malpractice Expert Qualifications The medical malpractice plaintiffs brought medical negligence claims against a board-certified gastroenterologist who performed an endoscopy at an ambulator[...]

Five Ophthalmology Practices Pay $6M To Resolve Allegations Of Fraudulent Medicare And Medicaid Claims For Cranial Ultrasounds

March 11, 2026

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 15, 2026 that Florida ophthalmology practices Clay Eye Holdings LLC, Retina Macula Specialist of Miami LLC, Florida Eye Institute P.A., Miami Eye LLC, and Kendall Eye Institute Inc. have agreed to pay a total of nearly $6 million to resolve alleged[...]

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Bill

March 10, 2026

On March 6, 2026, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law medical malpractice reform bill HB99, which she said “will help reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance and attract more physicians to New Mexico.” The bill creates tiered caps on punitive damages — $[...]

$1.475M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Newborn Who Suffered Permanent Leg Injury Due To Failure To Timely Diagnose And Treat Aortic Coarctation

March 9, 2026

One day after a full-term baby was successfully delivered at a medical center, the newborn was given routine screenings for congenital heart defects. Echocardiograms were subsequently ordered and performed to determine if the newborn had a congenital heart defect, such as aortic coarctation (narrowi[...]

Nursing Home Capacity Has Dropped Twice As Fast Since The Pandemic

March 8, 2026

The number of licensed skilled nursing facility (SNF – nursing home) beds declined by 2.5% from 2019 to 2024, while operating capacity declined by 5.0% over the same time period. A recently published study found that the estimated operating capacity based on maximum census counts declined 5% b[...]

Kaiser Family Foundation Report On Health Care Claim Denials By Insurers In 2023

March 7, 2026

The 2023 KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance found that 58% of insured adults said they have experienced a problem using their health insurance, including denied claims. Four in ten (39%) of those who reported having trouble paying medical bills said that denied claims[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case Involving Dispute Over Production Of Medical Records

March 6, 2026

Roxanne Hawkins alleged that before initiating her Maryland medical malpractice action, she asked Calvert Health Medical Center (“Calvert Health”) to send her her husband, Ronald Hawkins’s, medical records. Once she obtained therecords, she retained Dr. Matthew Grayson Tuck and asked him to pr[...]

$24M Seattle Stem Cell Malpractice Verdict

March 5, 2026

A Seattle medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on February 27, 2026 in the amount of $24 million for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that a stem cell center was negligent in its treatment of a 62-year-old man in 2019 that led to his death. After the man was diagnosed in 2017 with ALS, [...]

Kaiser Permanente Affiliates Pay $556M To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

March 4, 2026

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 14, 2026 that affiliates of Kaiser Permanente, an integrated healthcare consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, have agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis [...]

Federal Appellate Court Revives Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

March 3, 2026

Vernell Freeman, an Indiana prisoner, alleged that Nurse Kimberly Myers and Dr. Noe Marandet, medical providers at Miami Correctional Facility, violated his rights under the Eighth Amendment. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court denied Freeman’s motion for summary judgment and granted the defenda[...]

Florida Judge Reduces $71M Medical Malpractice Verdict To $41M But Refuses To Apply Medicaid Cap

March 2, 2026

Florida Statute section 766.118(6) caps noneconomic damages awardable specifically to Medicaid patients to $200,000 per provider and $300,000 per incident when that treatment has been determined by a jury to be negligent. A judge of the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit for the State [...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds No Error In Refusing Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Request For Medical Records Impoundment

March 1, 2026

Uniform Rules on Impoundment Procedure (2015) (URIP) The Uniform Rules on Impoundment Procedure (URIP) govern impoundment of otherwise public case records that are filed in civil and criminal proceedings in each Department of the Trial Court. Case records are presumed to be open to the public, unles[...]

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