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Updated Guidance For Prevention And Control Of Infections In Nursing Homes

December 31, 2025

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Society (PALTmed), and the American Geriatrics[...]

South Carolina Appellate Court Finds Assumption Of Risk Jury Instruction In Medical Malpractice Case Was Given In Error But Upholds Defense Verdict Nonetheless

December 30, 2025

Before undergoing breast reduction and implant removal surgery, Rebecca Turisk signed a consent form acknowledging that “[a]lternative methods and therapies, their benefits, material risks and disadvantages” had been explained to her; she understood and accepted that the most likely risk[...]

Judgment Ordered To Be Entered Against Johnson & Johnson And Others In Amount Of $1,059,840,000 For Mesothelioma Talc Verdict

December 29, 2025

ORDER FOR CLERK TO ENTER JUDGMENT On November 4, 2025 through December 22, 2025, this action was tried before a jury. All parties appeared with counsel. On December 22, 2025, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff, against Defendants Johnson & Johnson, Pecos River Talc LLC, Johnso[...]

$1.85M Maryland Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Resident Left Outside In Heat For Hours

December 28, 2025

On December 16, 2025, a Baltimore County Maryland jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.85 million for a nursing home resident who suffered heat stroke due to being left outside in the heat for hours because the staff forget she was outside. The resident, who is in her 70s and suffers from d[...]

$9.5M Missouri Dental Malpractice Verdict For 20 Patients

December 27, 2025

Twenty former patients of Kansas City dentist Brian Jenkins filed dental malpractice lawsuits against him and his dental practice, Brian H. Jenkins DDS, LLC d/b/a Wright Dentures and Implants in Independence, Kansas. A judge awarded the plaintiffs $.9.5 million in damages ($473,445 for each plaintif[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Waited Too Long To Amend Her Complaint

December 26, 2025

On August 24, 2016, Jeff Segrest, M.D. performed a vein-ablation procedure on Sandra Phillips’s right leg. Thereafter, Phillips developed an infection in her upper right thigh, and she was treated by Dr. Steven M. Taylor. Dr. Taylor first examined Phillips on September 21, 2016, and subsequent[...]

California Supreme Court Upholds Nursing Home Misgendering Law As Constitutional

December 25, 2025

In 2017, the California Legislature enacted the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents’ Bill of Rights. (Stats. 2017, ch. 483, amending Health & Saf. Code, div. 2 to add ch. 2.45. The legislationcomprehensively addresses issues concerning lesbian, gay, bisexu[...]

$1.5 Billion Baltimore Mesothelioma Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

December 24, 2025

On December 22, 2025, a Baltimore City jury awarded over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder talc contained asbestos that caused her peritoneal mesothelioma, which is a rare form of cancer that is linked to asbestos exposure and for which there is no cu[...]

$11M Rhode Island Medical Malpractice Settlement For Baby Who Suffered Brain Damage After Mother Suffered Cardiac Arrest During Labor

December 23, 2025

A 29-year-old woman who was pregnant with her first child was having an unremarkable labor and delivery until she suddenly had a drop in her blood pressure to 65/28 and a pulse in the 50s. She became unresponsive at 5:57 p.m. A rapid response team was called and an obstetrician, who had no prior inv[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds COVID Immunity Did Not Apply Where Failure To Provide Necessary Medical Care In Hospital Was Unrelated To COVID

December 22, 2025

The Georgia Emergency Management Act (“GEMA”) states in relevant part: “[n]either the state nor any political subdivision of the state nor, except in cases of willful misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith, the employees, agents, or representatives of the state or any political subdivi[...]

Defense Verdict In Missouri Medical Malpractice Case Filed By Man Who Moved His Head During Eye Surgery

December 21, 2025

On September 10, 2025, a Missouri medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a cataract surgeon who was sued for alleged medical malpractice that occurred during cataract surgery when the patient unexpectedly moved his head during an injection into his eye, causing perforation of the [...]

$1M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Failure To Communicate HPV Test Results

December 20, 2025

In June 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case was settled for $1.15 million in which the plaintiff alleged that her doctor’s office failed to tell her the results of an HPV test that caused a delay in being diagnosed with cervical cancer and resulting in a poor prognosis for Stage IVB cerv[...]

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