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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Peer Preview Privilege Did Not Apply In Medical Malpractice Case

April 11, 2018

In its majority, 4-to-3 opinion filed on March 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Western District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) ruled that the Pennsylvania Peer Review Protection Act, 63 P.S. §§ 425.1-425.4 (“PRPA”), which provides a narrow evidentiary privilege [...]

$33.2 Million Settlement For Defective Medical Testing Device

April 10, 2018

Patients and their doctors rely on the safety and effectiveness of medical testing devices when making decisions regarding diagnosis and medical care. Defective or faulty medical testing devices put patient safety at risk and may result in the wrong decisions being made regarding medical treatment, [...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

April 9, 2018

In its opinion dated March 14, 2018, the State of Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment in favor of the Louisiana medical malpractice defendant orthopedic surgeon and affirmed dismissal of the Louisiana medical malpractice plaint[...]

Federal Appellate Court Allows Some State Law Claims In Medical Device Lawsuit

April 8, 2018

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) addressed the issue of how courts should apply the federal express preemption provision to state law tort claims challenging the design and manufacture of a medical device comprised of multiple component[...]

$68M California Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiac Surgeon Who Left Before Surgery Completed

April 7, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a cardiac surgeon in the amount of $12,390,000 in punitive damages on March 19, 2018, in addition to the $55,600,000 in compensatory damages that the California medical malpractice jury awarded to the plaintiff on March 1, 2018, due [...]

Ohio Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Missed One-Year Statute Of Limitations

April 6, 2018

The Ohio Court of Appeals Ninth Judicial Circuit (“Ohio Appellate Court”) ruled in a case it decided on March 14, 2018 that the plaintiff’s Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit was untimely because it was not filed within Ohio’s one year statute of limitations for medical malprac[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert Qualified To Give Her Opinions

April 5, 2018

In its opinion filed on February 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) ruled that the circuit court abused its discretion when it refused to qualify the Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff’s only proposed expert witness under Code § 8.01-581.20. In a ca[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Missed Statute Of Limitations

April 4, 2018

In its opinion published on March 14, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) stated that the Louisiana medical malpractice plaintiff, who had filed her Louisiana medical malpractice lawsuit on January 2, 2014, had “introduced absolu[...]

$1.8M North Carolina Medical Malpractice Settlement For Failure To Timely Re-Intubate After Untimely Removal From Ventilator

April 3, 2018

The family of a 30-year-old woman who died after she suffered profound and irreversible brain damage because she was removed from a ventilator too soon following surgery, and attempts to re-intubate her were too late and unsuccessful, have agreed to settle their North Carolina medical malpractice cl[...]

New Study Finds Medical Malpractice Allegations Against Nurse Practitioners Similar To Physicians

April 2, 2018

A recent study entitled “Nurse Practitioner Closed Claims Study” involving 67 closed medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners (“NP”) from January 2011 through December 2016 that was published by The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractic[...]

$6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failing To Order MRIs In Undiagnosed Liver Cancer Case

April 1, 2018

A Philadelphia medical malpractice jury took two-and-a-half hours after a six-day trial that ended on March 6, 2018 to award the estate of a 65-year-old man who died of late-diagnosed liver cancer and his surviving wife the total sum of $6 million. The Philadelphia medical malpractice jury allocated[...]

$24.7M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict By Federal Judge

March 31, 2018

A federal judge in Hawaii awarded a woman and her family $24,743,668.53 in damages in a federal medical malpractice case brought in Hawaii federal court pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, arising out of the treatment the woman received at Tripler Army Medical Center in 2013 when she went to th[...]

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