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Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Certificate Of Qualified Expert Requirements In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

January 29, 2020

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unpublished opinion dated December 26,2019: “The ministerial act of transferring the case from the HCADRO to the circuit court—an action the Director [...]

Sinai Health System (Chicago) Warns Of Data Security Breach

January 28, 2020

On December 19, 2019, Sinai Health System issued a warning entitled “NOTICE OF SECURITY INCIDENT AT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM” that advised “Sinai Health System (Sinai) has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent exposure of some patie[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Defendant Hospital Entitled To Sovereign Immunity From Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

January 27, 2020

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) stated in its Memorandum Opinion dated December 31, 2019 that “the gravamen of [the Texas medical malpractice wrongful death plaintiff’s] complaint is that the diagnosis and treatment of decedent Tracy Crawford&#[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Allows Widow To Be Added As Party To Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Statute Of Limitations Expired

January 26, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”), in its decision dated January 3, 2020, applied the relation-back doctrine in ruling that the trial court had abused its discretion in refusing to allow the widow be added to the Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsui[...]

The Need For Medical Malpractice Tort Reform: Who Do You Believe?

January 25, 2020

An article entitled “The Falacies of Medical Malpractice “Tort Reform”” states, in part: “Organizations representing the state’s doctors and their insurers have been hard at work trying to convince the public that medical malpractice insurance premiums have escalated [...]

Kansas VA Seeks To Fire Urologist Accused Of Harming Patients While In Private Practice

January 24, 2020

The VA hospital in Wichita, Kansas is seeking to terminate a urologist on its staff after it became aware through a news story in a local newspaper in September 2019 that the 44-year-old urologist was reportedly disciplined by the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts (“BoardR[...]

$10.5M Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Sponge Left During Bypass Surgery

January 23, 2020

A Kentucky medical malpractice jury recently awarded $10.5 million against the defendant hospital for a woman who had to have a left leg partial amputation that resulted from a sponge left in her during bypass surgery in 2011. About four years after the bypass surgery, the woman found out that the s[...]

$1,275,000 New Jersey Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Settlement For Misdiagnosed Stomach Cancer

January 22, 2020

A New Jersey medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was recently settled for $1,275,000 for the death of a 34-year-old woman whose stomach cancer allegedly was not diagnosed in time and resulted in her death in 2016. The woman died of stage IV cancer on August 29, 2016. The defendants included a[...]

FDA Issues Public Safety Notification On Exosome Products

January 21, 2020

On December 6, 2019, the FDA warned the public, especially patients, health care practitioners, and clinics, of multiple recent reports of serious adverse events experienced by patients in Nebraska who were treated with unapproved products marketed as containing exosomes. These reports were brought [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Dismisses Nursing Home Negligence Appeal

January 20, 2020

In its opinion dated December 26, 2019, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held: “Joann Sartain filed a four-count complaint against Trilogy Healthcare of Hamilton II, LLC d/b/a Prairie Lakes Health Campus (“Prairie Lakes”). Prairie Lakes moved to dismi[...]

Idaho Supreme Court Discusses Application Of Idaho’s Medical Malpractice Laws To Intentional Torts

January 19, 2020

In its opinion filed on December 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (“Idaho Supreme Court”) held: “While the area of medical malpractice is complicated, there is nothing in the act that suggests the common law causes of action that predated passage would be eliminate[...]

Texas Supreme Court Orders Nonparty Doctor To Provide Discovery In Medical Malpractice Case

January 18, 2020

In its opinion dated December 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) stated: “The Texas Medical Liability Act limits discovery in a health care liability claim until the claimant serves an expert report in accordance with the Act on the physician or provider a[...]

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