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Study Regarding Pediatric Ophthalmology Medical Malpractice Claims

October 7, 2016

In a study published online on September 1, 2016 in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, the authors undertook a study of pediatric ophthalmology medical malpractice claims and then compared them to adult ophthalmology medical malpractice claims to discern any differences. The stated objective of the st[...]

New Study Regarding Plastic Surgery Malpractice Claims

October 6, 2016

A study released on September 23, 2016 by The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company, analyzed 1,438 medical malpractice claims against plastic surgeons who were insured by The Doctors Company and which plastic surgery medical malpractice cl[...]

$1.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misread CT Leading To Unnecessary Surgery

October 5, 2016

On September 23, 2016, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a conservative Maryland county returned its verdict in the amount of $1.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who had his CT scan misread by the defendant radiologist, which led to unnecessary surgery that has left the man with severe chro[...]

$625K Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Undiagnosed Mini Stroke

October 4, 2016

On September 22, 2016, a 12-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after a four-day trial and three days of jury deliberations. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found that the defendant emergency room physician was negligent in his treatm[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Striking Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert

October 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on September 28, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the trial court’s striking of the plaintiff’s medical malpractice expert because the expert failed to sat[...]

Florida Supreme Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

October 2, 2016

The issue decided by the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) in its written opinion filed on September 22, 2016 was whether the father who became a resident of the defendant Florida nursing home is bound by an arbitration clause in the nursing home contract signed by his[...]

Colorado Appellate Court Requires Nursing Homes To Strictly Comply With Arbitration Statute

October 1, 2016

In its decision filed on September 8, 2016, the Colorado Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) held that in deciding the enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate under the Health Care Availability Act (“HCAA”), the test is strict compliance (rather than substantial compl[...]

$10M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict Will Be Reduced By More Than 90 Percent

September 30, 2016

A Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a widow and her eight children in the amount of $10 million on September 22, 2016, due to the medical negligence of the medical malpractice defendants that led to the husband/father’s death, but the Baltimore medical malpra[...]

New Federal Rule Prohibits Pre-Dispute Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

September 29, 2016

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final rule on September 19, 2016 that prohibits nursing homes in the United States that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs from entering into binding pre-dispute arbitration[...]

California Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay $28.5M To Settle False Claims Allegations

September 28, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 19, 2016 that a California-based, for-profit operator of 35 skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes), most of which are in California, has agreed to pay the government $28.5 million in order to settle allegations that it violated the federal [...]

$11.8M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prison Inmate’s Suicide

September 27, 2016

A federal jury in Pennsylvania recently found that the defendant prison health care provider, the defendant prison physician, and the defendant prison nurses were not only medically negligent but were also deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s medical needs that led to his suicide in his p[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

September 26, 2016

On September 2, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendants, finding that the Georgia medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant surgeon and the defendant anesthesiologist had breached the standard of care in treating the plainti[...]

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