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New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Doctors Failed To Diagnose Pill Lodged In Patient’s Throat, Leading to Death

April 29, 2017

A recently filed New Hampshire medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the multiple defendant doctors failed to diagnose that an 80-year-old woman had a pill lodged in her throat despite numerous visits to her medical providers, allowing the pill to burn a hole into her pulmonary artery, causing[...]

Washington Supreme Court Says Nurse May Be Qualified To Testify As To Proximate Cause In Medical Malpractice Case

April 28, 2017

In its decision filed on April 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held that ARNPs (advanced registered nurse practitioners) may be qualified to testify regarding causation in a medical malpractice case if the trial court determines that t[...]

Xarelto Lawsuits Allege Undisclosed Risk of Internal Bleeding

April 27, 2017

More than 18,000 patients have filed lawsuits alleging that the blood-thinning medication Xarelto caused them to suffer internal bleeding, the risk of which they allege was not disclosed to them. Johnson & Johnson and Bayer jointly developed Xarelto, which was approved by the FDA in 2011 to be u[...]

$14.9M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ambulatory Surgery Center For Patient’s Permanent Paralysis

April 26, 2017

On March 23, 2017, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant ambulatory surgery center for the permanent paralysis suffered by a patient who was given a drug during an epidural steroid injection procedure that the manufacturer of the drug specificity warned agai[...]

$33.8M Florida Birth Injury Verdict By Federal Judge

April 25, 2017

On April 17, 2017, a United States District Judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida awarded the plaintiffs a total of $33,813,495.91 against the United States for the severe and permanent birth injuries suffered by their child during his birth on Decemb[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Discusses “Relation Back Doctrine” In Medical Malpractice Case

April 24, 2017

In its written opinion released in advance on April 3, 2017, the Connecticut Supreme Court clarified the contours of the relation back doctrine as applied to medical malpractice claims, holding that the Connecticut Appellate Court properly held that the plaintiff’s amended medical malp[...]

Texas Physician, Pharmacist, And Patient Recruiter Sentenced For Oxycodone Conspiracy

April 23, 2017

A 77-year-old physician, a 51-year-old pharmacist, and a 63-year-old man described as a patient recruiter, all of whom are Houston, Texas residents, were sentenced to federal prison on April 3, 2017 for their respective roles in an illegal conspiracy involving prescription oxycodone pills in the Hou[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Vision Impairment From Cardiac Perforation During Catheterization

April 22, 2017

In its March 28, 2017 Decision and Order, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the order of the New York Supreme Court, New York County that dismissed the New York medical malpractice plaintiff’s complaint. The New York medica[...]

$600K California Medical Malpractice Settlement For Flesh Eating Bacteria Death

April 21, 2017

In February 2017, a Santa Barbara, California hospital reportedly settled a California medical malpractice wrongful death claim by paying $600,000 to the family of a 43-year-old woman who died five years ago as a result of necrotizing fasciitis (better known as flesh eating bacteria) that the hospit[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Breach Of Contract Claim Not Available To Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

April 20, 2017

In its unreported opinion filed on March 17, 2017, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court dismissing the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff’s breach of contract claim in her Maryland medical malpractice complaint where the[...]

Texas Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Report Deficient

April 19, 2017

In its Memorandum Opinion dated March 30, 2017, the Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Appellate Court”) remanded the Texas medical malpractice case to the trial court to determine whether to grant the plaintiff a thirty-day extension to cure [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms That Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation

April 18, 2017

In its opinion filed on March 6, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Georgia Fifth Division (“Appellate Court”) held that the Georgia medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to provide sufficient expert testimony to establish that the defendants’ alleged medical negligence caused the pl[...]

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