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Iowa Supreme Court Rules State Has No Liability For Sexual Assault Of Nursing Home Resident

April 17, 2017

In its opinion filed on April 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of Iowa (“the Court”) held that the State of Iowa did not owe a duty of care to either the defendant nursing home or its 95-year-old nursing home resident who was sexually assaulted by a co-resident who was a sex offender with a [...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Rules Evidence Of Risks And Complications Of Surgical Procedure Irrelevant In Medical Malpractice Claim

April 16, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on March 29, 2017, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) ruled that it was error for the trial court to have allowed the defense to introduce evidence of the known risks and complications of a surgical procedure in a medical malpracti[...]

New Mexico Supreme Court Extends Comity In Applying Texas Law In Medical Malpractice Case

April 15, 2017

In its opinion filed on March 13, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico (“New Mexico Supreme Court”) extended comity to Texas and applied Texas law to the New Mexico medical malpractice plaintiff’s claims, thereby dismissing the plaintiff’s New Mexico medical mal[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed for Prisoner’s Death

April 14, 2017

The adult daughter of a jail prisoner in Georgia has filed a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the private company that was contracted to provide medical services to prisoners, for the death of her mother due to the alleged failure to provide timely and adequate medical ca[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In EDG Wrongful Death Claim

April 13, 2017

An Ohio medial malpractice jury returned a defense verdict on March 23, 2017 after a one-week trial and just over one day of jury deliberations in an Ohio wrongful death lawsuit in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants breached the standard of care in performing an EDG on a man in the ICU[...]

Facial Injuries In Nursing Home Residents

April 12, 2017

A study published online on March 16, 2017 in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery analyzed the incidence of facial injuries (facial trauma) in nursing home residents in the United States. The study found that there were 109,795 nursing home residents who required emergen[...]

$5.13M Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Surgical Fire

April 11, 2017

A Fairfax County, Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on March 2, 2017 in the amount of $5.13 million in favor of the plaintiff for the permanent and extensive facial and other burns she suffered as a result of a surgical fire that happened in the operating room of a local hospita[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds $2.1M Defective Hip Implant Verdict

April 10, 2017

On March 20, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Appellate Court”) upheld a $2.1 million product liability judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the first bellwether trial in a multidistrict litigation involving over 500 cases concerning the Wright Medical Conserve[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Applies Minors Savings Clause In Wrongful Death Action

April 9, 2017

In its opinion filed on March 23, 2017, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) held that only when someone who is qualified to bring a wrongful-death suit actually files a wrongful-death suit on the minor beneficiaries’ behalf will the minors savings clause [...]

Ohio Appellate Court Holds Patient’s Negative Online Review Of Her Plastic Surgeon Not Actionable

April 8, 2017

In its opinion dated March 20, 2017, the Ohio Court of Appeals Seventh District (“Appellate Court”) held that the negative online review of a plastic surgeon by a former patient against whom the former patient had obtained a medical malpractice verdict was not actionable for tortious int[...]

Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer To Take My Case?

April 7, 2017

An increasing number of medical malpractice victims throughout the United States are finding it increasingly more difficult to find medical malpractice lawyers in their state who are willing to represent them in a medical malpractice claim. Why is this so, and what can these medical malpractice vict[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Three Of Four Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed By Same Plaintiff

April 6, 2017

In its opinion filed on January 5, 2017, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s three subsequently filed Mississippi medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuits while her first (original) Mississ[...]

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