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Wyoming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Surgeon

December 18, 2016

A Wyoming medical malpractice jury took only three hours to return its verdict in favor of a trauma surgeon after a one-week trial that concluded on November 21, 2016 with regard to the death of a 59-year-old pharmacist from Idaho who bled to death one day after being discharged from the hospital at[...]

Federal Appellate Court Decides Coverage Dispute Between Two Medical Malpractice Insurance Companies Regarding Agency Nurse

December 17, 2016

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) decided in its opinion filed on December 6, 2016 that a nurse employed by a staffing agency and assigned to work at a hospital qualified as an “employee” of the hospital under the hospital’s medical malpr[...]

Virginia Jail Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Medication Withdrawal Leading To Death

December 16, 2016

The family of a Virginia jail inmate who died while in custody filed a federal jail medical malpractice lawsuit on December 1, 2016 against numerous defendants for the death of the 26-year-old man who had informed the jail medical personnel that he was addicted to Xanax but the staff wrote down on t[...]

$14.5M Nevada Medical Malpractice Verdict For Premature Baby’s Brain Damage After Delivery

December 15, 2016

A Nevada medical malpractice jury has returned its verdict in the amount of $14.5 million against two doctors, finding that their negligence led to a premature baby suffering permanent brain damage after she was born. The now 8-year-old is almost totally blind, is unable to walk, unable to speak, r[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal Of Non-Medical Malpractice Claim, Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Claim

December 14, 2016

In its opinion filed on November 30, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the pro se plaintiff’s medical malpractice (health care liability) claim alleged in her complaint because she failed to comply[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Judgment For Defendant OB On Informed Consent Claim In Maryland Birth Injury Case

December 13, 2016

In its unreported opinion filed on December 6, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court entering judgment in favor of the Defendant OB at the close of the plaintiff’s side of her medical malpractice case that alleged the lack o[...]

$5M New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ophthalmologist For Blindness

December 12, 2016

A New Hampshire medical malpractice jury awarded just under $4.7 million to a 67-year-old woman who suffered blindness as a result of alleged negligent medical treatment of her age-related wet form of macular degeneration by the defendant ophthalmologist. The jury also awarded $350,000 to her husban[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Hospital Sexual Assault Claim

December 11, 2016

On November 23, 2016, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant hospital after an eight-day trial, finding that the hospital was not responsible for the two sexual assaults of a woman in its psychiatric unit that occurred in 2008 that were perpetrated by anot[...]

Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Cigna Profited By Causing Insureds To Be Overcharged For Prescription Medications

December 10, 2016

A class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on October 13, 2016 against Cigna Corporation (“Cigna”), a fully integrated health insurance company with reported revenue in excess of $37.9 billion in 2015, alleges that Cigna and/or its agents viol[...]

Study Of Adverse Drug Events Leading To ER Visits In The U.S.

December 9, 2016

A study published in JAMA on November 22/29, 2016 estimated that the annual prevalence of emergency room visits in the United States in 2013 and 2014 for adverse drug events was 4 per 1,000 individuals, and that 27.3% of the visits resulted in hospitalization. The most common medications involve[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Overturns Transfer Of Medical Malpractice Case Granted To Defendants

December 8, 2016

In its unreported opinion filed on December 5, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, ruled that the trial court abused its discretion in transferring a medical malpractice case filed in Baltimore City to a rural[...]

Appellate Court Discusses “Judicial Notice” In Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

December 7, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) discussed the role of “judicial notice” in an unreported opinion issued on November 28, 2016 that involved a Maryland medical malpractice appeal. During the Maryland medical malpractice jury trial, the trial judge w[...]

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