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Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Expert Report Was Sufficient

September 8, 2017

In its opinion filed on August 17, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held that the trial court reasonably could have concluded that the plaintiff’s expert report met the requirements of Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 74[...]

Two Maryland Physicians And Nine Co-Conspirators Indicted For Running Pill Mills In Maryland

September 7, 2017

The Maryland Attorney General announced on August 10, 2017 that two Maryland physicians and nine co-conspirators have been indicted for alleged unlawful distribution of controlled dangerous substances and running pill mills in Maryland. One of the Maryland physicians has been indicted on 21 counts o[...]

$4.475M Georgia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict

September 6, 2017

A Savannah, Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff on August 14, 2017 after a six-day Georgia medical malpractice trial and two hours and twenty minutes of jury deliberations, for the death of a post-surgical patient while he was in the hospital the night fol[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Loses For Failure To Timely Update Expert’s Report

September 5, 2017

The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (“New Mexico federal court”) on August 8, 2017 granted summary judgment to the New Mexico medical malpractice defendants in its Memorandum Opinion and Order that stated that the plaintiff had the burden to prove through expe[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Vacates $329K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 4, 2017

In its reported opinion filed on September 1, 2017, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, vacated a Baltimore medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $329,000 in favor of the plaintiff, holding that the [...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

September 3, 2017

A Georgia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that on December 16, 2013 she had a chest x-ray taken as part of her clearance for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and that the radiologist who read the chest x-ray identified a 7 mm nodule on her left lung for which he recommende[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds That Subsequent Treating Physician Cannot Testify As To Standard Of Care

September 2, 2017

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on August 15, 2017 that medical malpractice defendants may not use the plaintiff’s treating doctors to provide expert testimony relating to deviation from the standard o[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Verdict In Loss Of Testicle Following Vasectomy Case

September 1, 2017

The Connecticut Appellate Court issued an opinion on August 11, 2017 in which it affirmed the judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs (husband and wife) in the amount of $386,249.81 following a bench trial in which the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant urologist negligently performed a vase[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Substantial Compliance With Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Notice Requirements Applies To Governmental Entities

August 31, 2017

In its opinion filed on August 8, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) affirmed that substantial compliance with the documentation requirement in Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-26-121(b) is sufficient even when the defendant is a government[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Responsible For Newborn’s Suffocation Death

August 30, 2017

An Oregon woman filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Oregon during early August 2017 against the hospital where she gave birth and a nurse who was involved with her care, alleging that their negligence led to the woman accidentally suffocating her newborn when she rolled over onto her newborn who [...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Directed Verdict For Anesthesiologist

August 29, 2017

The Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) affirmed the directed verdict in favor of the defendant anesthesiologist in an opinion filed on August 8, 2017, determining that there was no competent, substantial evidence that the defendant anesthesiologis[...]

New Jersey Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case Dismissed Due To Lack Of Proper Expert Opinion

August 28, 2017

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the dismissal of a New Jersey birth injury medical malpractice case in an unpublished opinion on July 14, 2017 because the plaintiffs did not produce any expert report to articulate the standard of care appl[...]

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