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Missouri Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Failure To Ask Jury Panel The “Insurance Question”

December 7, 2018

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Three (“Missouri Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on November 20, 2018: “Because of the fundamental nature of the right to a fair and impartial jury, the trial court has no discretion to deny a party the right to as[...]

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

December 6, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion delivered on November 16, 2018 that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s report sufficiently identified the applicable standard of care and the link between the defendant hospital’s nur[...]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Receives Medicare/Medicaid Termination Notice

December 5, 2018

The Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Atlanta Regional Office (“CMS”) has provided written notice that “effective December 9, 2018, the agreement between Vanderbilt University Medical Center … and the Secretary of Healt[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Honor DNR

December 4, 2018

A New Mexico medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that a New Mexico hospital administered a medication to the plaintiff that the hospital was aware that the plaintiff was allergic to, which resulted in the plaintiff suffering cardiac arrest. Then, the defendant hospital failed to abide by the terms o[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Kidney Wrongfully Removed During Back Surgery

December 3, 2018

A Florida medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against a general surgeon participating in the plaintiff’s back surgery on April 29, 2016, for allegedly removing one of her kidneys because the surgeon wrongfully thought that it was cancerous. The plaintiff had met the defendant surgeon just be[...]

$1.3M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Missed Heart Attack In 23-Year-Old

December 2, 2018

On November 20, 2018, after a ten-day trial, a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death jury found an emergency room physician and his employer liable for the death of a 23-year-old patient who had gone to the emergency room complaining of chest pain. Despite an abnormal EKG and other symptoms of[...]

CDC Reports Record Number Of Tickborne Diseases In U.S. In 2017

December 1, 2018

The CDC reported on November 14, 2018 that state and local health departments reported a record number of cases of tickborne disease to the CDC in 2017. Cases of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis/ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis (including Rocky Mountain spotted fever), babesiosis, tularemia, and [...]

$820K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Late Diagnosis Of Colon Cancer

November 30, 2018

On November 20, 2018, a Montgomery County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a $819,437 medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff following more than three weeks of trial and three hours of jury deliberations. The Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that the defendant[...]

Defective Medical Devices Caused 1.7 Million Injuries, 83,000 Deaths In U.S.

November 29, 2018

The Implant Files, which is a global investigation that tracks the harm caused by medical devices that have been tested inadequately or not at all, analyzed more than 8 million device-related health records, including death and injury reports and recalls, and found “more than 1.7 million injur[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff Adequately Alleged Medical Battery Claim

November 28, 2018

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion issued on October 25, 2018: “We agree with appellees that their live pleading sufficiently pleads a claim for medical battery because it includes allegations that [the defendant oncologis[...]

Florida Appellate Court Approves Lawsuit For Unauthorized Disclosure Of Confidential Medical Records

November 27, 2018

The District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on November 9, 2018: “Because the violation of a statutorily-imposed duty of confidentiality is actionable under the common law, the trial court erred when it held that [the F[...]

$25.5M Verdict Against Aetna For Bad Faith Denial Of Cancer Treatment

November 26, 2018

A jury in Oklahoma awarded $25.5 million ($15.5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages) to the family of a woman who died from brain cancer, for Aetna’s bad faith in denying her health insurance coverage for cancer treatment, finding that Aetna acted recklessly in [...]

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