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Missouri Supreme Court Affirms That Medical Malpractice Fraudulent Concealment Claims Were Time Barred

January 5, 2020

The December 10, 2019 opinion of the Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed a lower court ruling that the Missouri medical malpractice plaintiffs’ fraudulent concealment claims against the defendant health care providers were time barred because the facts upon which they now rely to show fraud wer[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Against Anesthesiologists

January 4, 2020

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, recently published a study of closed medical malpractice claims against anesthesiologists entitled, “Making Further Advancements in Anesthesia Care Safety,” in which it found: “the two most commo[...]

$5 Million New York City Nursing Home Neglect Verdict

January 3, 2020

On December 12, 2019, a New York City nursing home neglect jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,032,281 ($2,980,281 awarded in compensatory damages and an additional $2,052,000 in statutory interest) against a New York City nursing home for its alleged neglect of an elderly resident that ul[...]

California Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Possible Improper Juror Exclusion

January 2, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Seven (“California Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion dated November 18, 2019: “The prohibition against the exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude prospective jurors on the basis of[...]

$1.25M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Fatal Brain Hemmorhage

January 1, 2020

On November 26, 2019, an Erie, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.25 million against a primary care physician and his medical practice whom the jury found to have been negligent in failing to investigate the cause of a 45-year-old woman’s persistent [...]

Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2018

December 31, 2019

An analysis of medical malpractice payouts for 2018 from the data collected by the National Practitioner Data Bank found that total amount of medical malpractice payouts increased by 2.91% in 2018 ($4,031,987,700). The average medical malpractice payout in 2018 was $348,065. There were 11,584 medica[...]

DNA Diagnostics Center Sued By Baltimore Man For False Paternity Test Result

December 30, 2019

A Baltimore man who was determined by DNA Diagnostics Center to be the father of a one-year-old girl based on its at-home DNA testing kit and later learned by repeat DNA testing that he was not the father has filed a lawsuit against the company, seeking $75,000 in compensatory damages for his costs [...]

$9.6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Cervical Cancer In Nine-Year-old

December 29, 2019

A Berks County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $9.6 million to a now 15-year-old girl whose cervical cancer was not timely diagnosed. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial lasted eight days before the jury deliberated for two days prior to rendering its verdict against the defend[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal Of Patients’ Claims Against Medical Clinic For Stolen Personal Information

December 28, 2019

In its decision filed on December 23, 2019, the Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held: “The plaintiffs here, current or former patients of the defendant medical clinic, brought a putative class action after the clinic informed them that a hacker had stolen their p[...]

FDA Warns Companies That Process And Distribute Unapproved Products Derived From Umbilical Cord Blood

December 27, 2019

On December 6, 2019, the FDA warned Liveyon Labs Inc. (“Liveyon Labs”) and Liveyon LLC for processing and distributing unapproved products derived from umbilical cord blood (PURE and PURE PRO). The FDA further warned the companies regarding significant deviations from current good tissue[...]

Florida Appellate Court Sides With Hospital In Medical Malpractice Discovery Dispute

December 26, 2019

The District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Florida Appellate Court”) held, in its opinion filed on December 11, 2019, that it was “clear that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law. Its order requiring Tarpon Springs to produce “each an[...]

$6.3M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Cardiologist

December 25, 2019

On December 9, 2019, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $6,308,000 in favor of the wife of a 48-year-old man who died from acute myocardial infarcation (heart attack) due to severely constricted cardiac arteries, six weeks after the defendant[...]

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