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Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Surgeon Removed Large Portion Of Patient’s Pancreas, Instead Of Adrenal Gland

October 14, 2017

A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a surgeon who allegedly removed 40% of the plaintiff’s healthy pancreas instead of the cancerous tumor on her adrenal gland. The defendant surgeon told the 63-year-old woman’s family shortly after the surgery that he had removed [...]

$6M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Paramedic For Wrongful Death

October 13, 2017

On September 26, 2017, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded over $6 million to the estate of a 20-year-old woman who died seven days after giving birth to a premature baby, after finding that the paramedic who transported the woman from home to the hospital failed to properly intubate her o[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms No Arbitration For Nursing Home Wrongful Death Claim

October 12, 2017

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) rendered its opinion on September 22, 2017 in a Kentucky nursing home wrongful death claim in which the defendant nursing home sought to compel arbitration pursuant to the arbitration agreement that the nursing ho[...]

$596K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer

October 11, 2017

On October 5, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $596,000 ($176,000 in economic damages and $420,000 in noneconomic damages) against a man’s primary care physician for the physician’s role in the negligent failure to diagnose the 55-year-old [...]

Delaware Court Refuses To Send Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit To Arbitration

October 10, 2017

The Superior Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Court” ) issued an Order dated August 15, 2017 in which it denied the defendant nursing home’s request that the plaintiff’s Delaware nursing home negligence lawsuit be sent to arbitration, holding that when viewing the ev[...]

$10M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict Against CRNA For Wrongful Death

October 9, 2017

During the week of September 18, 2017, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $10 million in favor of the plaintiff for the wrongful death of an 80-year-old patient at an Iowa hospital due to the alleged medical negligence of a certified registered nurse anesthetist, [...]

$13M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Based On Apparent Agency For Patient’s Blindness

October 8, 2017

A Florida medical malpractice jury awarded $13 million on August 31, 2017 to an 80-year-old man who suffered blindness in his right eye after an ophthalmologist injected the wrong medication into his eye after cataract surgery at the defendant medical center. The Florida medical malpractice jury fou[...]

Missouri Nursing Home Tube-Fed Resident Died From Overfeeding

October 7, 2017

The Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that resulted from a survey of a Missouri nursing home that was conducted on August 14, 2017 stated that a resident died from overfeeding through t[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Rules Dismissed Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Containing Informed Consent Claim Wrongfully Revived

October 6, 2017

A Connecticut Appellate Court ruled in its decision filed on September 5, 2017 that the trial court erred when it improperly opened the judgment more than four months after it was rendered when no exception to the timeliness requirement existed. The Underlying Facts The plaintiff filed his complaint[...]

Arizona Appellate Court Rules Assumption Of Risk Jury Instruction Improper In Antibiotic Malpractice Claim

October 5, 2017

In its unreported opinion filed on September 19, 2017, the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One (“Arizona Appellate Court”), Arizona’s intermediate appellate court, held that it was error for the trial court to instruct the Arizona medical malpractice jury with regard to the plain[...]

$375K Ohio Nursing Home Negligence Settlement

October 4, 2017

A nursing home in Ohio has agreed to pay $375,000 to the family of an 83-year-old resident who died after she received 20 times more oxycodone than was ordered by her doctor, to settle the nursing home negligence claims. The woman died on July 7, 2015 after she received 500 mg of oxycodone over the [...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Discusses Sudden Emergency Doctrine In Health Claim Liability Birth Injury Case

October 3, 2017

In its opinion filed on September 18, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Knoxville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) reversed the defense win in a Tennessee health care liability case (i.e., medical malpractice case) involving the death of a twin shortly after birth, holding that the[...]

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