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Alligator Killed South Carolina Nursing Home Resident Who Wandered Off

July 10, 2017

A nursing home negligence lawsuit filed by the granddaughter of a 90-year-old resident of a South Carolina nursing home claims that the defendant nursing home’s failure to provide a safe environment for the resident and its failure to ensure her safety resulted in the resident wandering from t[...]

$1M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For 22-Year-Old’s Death

July 9, 2017

On June 30, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the family of a 22-year-old woman in the amount of just over $1 million for her wrongful death due to medical malpractice. During the five-day Baltimore medical malpractice trial, the jury heard testimony regardi[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Rules Mother’s Birth Injury Claim Untimely, But Child’s Birth Injury Claim Was Timely Filed

July 8, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) ruled on May 26, 2017 that a mother’s medical malpractice claim for the injuries she sustained during the birth of her child was untimely filed, but overruled the trial court’s ruling that the child’s birth[...]

Wisconsin Appellate Court Strikes Down Medical Malpractice Noneconomic Damages Cap

July 7, 2017

In its decision filed on July 5, 2017, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District I (“Appellate Court”) held that Wisconsin’s statutory $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases (WIS. STAT. § 893.55 (2015-16)) is unconstitutional on its face because it impos[...]

$870K Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Removal Of Wrong Testicle

July 6, 2017

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a 54-year-old man $870,000 as a result of his surgeon removing the wrong testicle. The defendant surgeon was supposed to remove the man’s right testicle, which was atrophied and scarred due to a previous injury and was painful and half the size o[...]

Drug And Medical Device Companies Paid $8,180,000,000 To 631,000 Physicians For Travel, Research, Speaking Fees, And Meals In 2016

July 5, 2017

Open Payments is a federal program, required by the Affordable Care Act, that collects information about the payments drug and device companies make to physicians and teaching hospitals for things like travel, research, gifts, speaking fees, and meals. It also includes ownership interests that physi[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Pro Se Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

July 4, 2017

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) issued a non-precedential decision on May 26, 2017 that affirmed summary judgment granted to the medical malpractice defendants because the plaintiffs failed to provide an expert report in support of their allegations of[...]

Saudi Arabia Medical Malpractice Complaints Rose By 37% In Five Years

July 3, 2017

A Saudi Arabian newspaper recently reported that the number of medical malpractice complaints filed in Saudi Arabia against medical practitioners by patients and their relatives increased by 37%, from 2,002 in 2011 to 3,178 in 2016. The Saudi Arabia legal health committees that handle medical malpra[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Loses Medicare And Medicaid Authorizations, Closing Its Doors

July 2, 2017

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced on June 7, 2017 that Maryland nursing home operator NMS Healthcare of Hagerstown LLC has been terminated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the lis[...]

Florida Appellate Court Finds Patient’s Pre-Surgery Release Of Neurosurgeon Was Ambiguous

July 1, 2017

Prior to undergoing spinal fusion surgery, a patient was asked to sign a release provided by the neurosurgeon and his medical practice that stated: “As of January 1, 2003, Dr. Michael D. Paul, and the professional corporation of MacMillan, Paul and Burkarth, P.A., also known as Treasure Coast [...]

New York Appellate Court Says Swallowed Camera Capsule Not A Foreign Object That Tolls Statute Of Limitations

June 30, 2017

In its decision filed on June 7, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that a camera capsule swallowed by the plaintiff in order to diagnostically visualize the condition of the plaintiff’s inte[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Allows Evidence Of Drunk Driving In 1997 In Recent Medical Malpractice Trial

June 29, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) recently affirmed in an unreported opinion that the trial judge in a Michigan medical malpractice case properly allowed testimony about the plaintiff driving drunk during a motor vehicle accident in 1997 in a recent medi[...]

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