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Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms $1.75M Brachial Plexus Injury Verdict, Discusses Daubert Challenge

January 11, 2017

In its decision filed on January 6, 2017, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (“Wisconsin Supreme Court”) affirmed a Wisconsin medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $1,750,000 in favor of a baby who suffered a permanent brachial plexus injury during his delivery that the [...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Death Of 10-Year-Old

January 10, 2017

On December 22, 2016, the parents of a Colorado ten-year-old boy who died on Christmas Eve in 2014, forty minutes after being sent home from the defendant Colorado hospital’s emergency room, filed their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, a physician at th[...]

$250K Massachusetts Wrongful Death Verdict For Hospital Patient’s Death

January 9, 2017

A Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded $250,000 to the family of a 78-year-old hospital patient who died as a result of alleged hospital negligence. The Massachusetts wrongful death verdict was rendered on December 20, 1016, after a two-week trial and after fifteen hours of jury deliberati[...]

Detroit Medical Malpractice Claim For 9-Year-Old’s Death Following Tonsillectomy

January 8, 2017

The mother of a 9-year-old who died within three hours after being discharged from a Detroit-area hospital on December 8, 2016 following what was supposed to be a routine, 30-minute tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy has provided notice that she intends to file a Michigan medical malpractice claim agai[...]

Facebook Post Helps To Torpedo Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Case

January 7, 2017

In its decision filed on December 22, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) held that reasonable minds could not differ in the conclusion that the medical malpractice plaintiff knew, or reasonably should have known, between July and September, 2009, that her long-s[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Claim For Previable (Nonviable) Fetus

January 6, 2017

In its decision filed on December 30, 2016, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held that the trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s wrongful death claim based on the death of her previable (nonviable) unborn child, citing an amendment to Alabama’[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

January 5, 2017

In its opinion filed on November 29, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson (“Appellate Court”) determined that the trial court erred in excluding and failing to consider respectively the deposition testimony and affidavit of the plaintiff’s medical expert (her subsequ[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Denies Defense Ex Parte Communication With Treating Physician – Sort Of

January 4, 2017

In its opinion filed on December 22, 2016, an Illinois Appellate Court held that defense counsel was prohibited from having any ex parte communication with the plaintiff’s subsequent treating physician, who is the managing partner and therefore part of the control group of the podiatry group t[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Operator Charged With Dumping Residents

January 3, 2017

On December 21, 2016, Maryland’s Attorney General announced that his office has filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Neiswanger Management Services, LLC (“NMS”), the operator of five Maryland nursing homes, for unsafely and unlawfully evicting frail [...]

$19.3M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Settlement

January 2, 2017

In December 2016, a Pennsylvania court approved a $19.3 million birth injury medical malpractice settlement that involved the alleged negligent delivery of a baby on December 13, 2012 at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that left the child with a profound and permanent brain injury t[...]

Two Florida Men Charged With Selling Expired Medical Devices

January 1, 2017

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced on December 9, 2016 that two Florida men were indicted on December 8, 2016 and charged with conspiring to misbrand and sell for profit expired medical devices, i.e., Gastric Banding Systems. The two men were indicted on [...]

New Stryker Hip Implants Settlement Announced For Additional Patients

December 31, 2016

In late December 2016, a new settlement establishing an unlimited fund for defective Stryker hip implants was announced for patients who had the Stryker Rejuvenate Modular and/or ABG II Modular metal-on-metal hip replacement devices implanted in them and then had revision surgery to remove them aft[...]

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