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Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Inadmissible Hearsay

March 25, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on March 12, 2019, reversed a Georgia medical malpractice defense verdict because the trial court had allowed inadmissible evidence “used to unfairly impeach [the plaintiff’s] expert witness as [...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Tribunal’s Dismissal Of Claim

March 24, 2019

The Massachusetts Appeals Court held in its March 11, 2019 opinion that “the offer of proof of the plaintiff, if properly substantiated, is sufficient to raise a legitimate question of liability” with respect to the two medical malpractice defendant physicians in a case where the plainti[...]

Maine Supreme Judicial Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hand Surgeon

March 23, 2019

In its decision filed on March 12, 2019, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a Maine medical malpractice jury’s award of $2 million to a man who had surgery on his right wrist that the jury found to have been negligently performed and the defendant surgeon negligently failed to timely di[...]

$3.38M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cruise Line

March 22, 2019

On March 8, 2019, a federal medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict against a cruise line, Royal Caribbean, in the amount of $3.38 million for the medical negligence of the onboard cruise line doctor that led to the death of a passenger. The federal medical malpractice jury awarded $34,390.32 [...]

Man Convicted Of 2010 Rape At Maryland Nursing Home

March 21, 2019

After a four-day trial during March 2019, a criminal jury convicted a Maryland man of first-degree rape, armed robbery, and a weapons charge related to an incident that occurred at a Maryland nursung home on December 6, 2010. The man was identfied when his DNA in a databank was matched to evidence o[...]

USA TODAY Analysis Finds High Childbirth Complication Rates In Some U.S. Hospitals

March 20, 2019

A USA TODAY article entitled “Hospitals blame moms when childbirth goes wrong. Secret data suggest it’s not that simple” stated that “[a] USA TODAY analysis of billing data from 7 million births found about one in eight hospitals have complication rates of at least double the nor[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds $46M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Catastrophic Brain Injury Four Days After Giving Birth

March 19, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Georgia, in its opinion filed on March 7, 2019, upheld a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s award in the amount of $46 million for the catastrophic brain injury suffered by a mother who had given birth four days earlier. The Georgia medical malpractice jury had awarded [...]

Texas Appellate Court Decides Plaintiffs’ Expert Qualified To Give Opinions In Birth Injury Wrongful Death Case

March 18, 2019

The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 7, 2019 in a Texas birth injury medical malpractice case that the plaintiffs’ expert report and accompanying resume, which listed the expert’s qualific[...]

New Study Finds Hospital Births During The Night Or On Weekends Are Riskier

March 17, 2019

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal entitled “Clinical capital and the risk of maternal labor and delivery complications: Hospital scheduling, timing and cohort turnover effects” found that the quantity of delivery complications in hospitals are substantially[...]

New Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine And Autism

March 16, 2019

A study published on March 5, 2019 in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study” was designed to evaluate whether the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine increases the risk for autism in children,[...]

FDA Warns About Young Donor Plasma Infusions Promoted As Unproven Treatment For Varying Conditions

March 15, 2019

The FDA Commissioner and the Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research issued a statement on February 19, 2019 cautioning consumers against receiving young donor plasma infusions that are promoted as unproven treatment for varying conditions. The conditions range from norm[...]

Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Statistics In The United States

March 14, 2019

For every 1,000 live births in the United States, there are 0.5 to 3 brachial plexus birth injuries. Almost 30% of those with brachial plexus birth injury (“BPBI”) have permanent neurological deficits or impairments. Over the course of decades, fluctuating rates of BPBI have been reporte[...]

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