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Florida Supreme Court Discusses Physician’s Potential Liability For Patient’s Suicide

September 1, 2016

In a case decided on August 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that the trial court had improperly granted summary judgment to the Florida medical malpractice defendants because the trial court’s decision was based on an improper determination of [...]

$30M Tennessee Nursing Home Verdict

August 31, 2016

A Tennessee jury recently returned its verdict in the amount of $30 million against a Tennessee nursing home, which included $28 million in punitive damages. The remainder of the jury’s verdict was for compensatory damages for nursing home negligence ($1.9 million) and for violations of the Te[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation

August 30, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unreported opinion filed on August 17, 2016 that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to establish that the 19-day delay from a radiologist’[...]

Ohio Cognitive Center’s Director Misrepresented Her Qualifications, According To Lawsuits

August 29, 2016

In four lawsuits recently filed against an Ohio cognitive center, the plaintiffs allege that the center’s director fraudulently misrepresented to them that she was a neuropsychologist at the time the director diagnosed the patients with Alzheimer’s disease, which subsequent second opin[...]

New Jersey Dentist Linked To 15 Cases Of Bacterial Endocarditis

August 28, 2016

A New Jersey dentist, who has been allowed to continue practicing dentistry in New Jersey, is reportedly linked to fifteen cases of bacterial endocarditis in patients who had received intravenous sedation for oral surgical procedures performed between December 2012 and August 2014, due to alleged[...]

Wyoming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Death Shortly After Discharge From Hospital

August 27, 2016

On August 19, 2016, a Wyoming medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of all of the defendants after about two hours of deliberations, finding that the September 2011 death of a 16-year-old paralyzed boy within six hours after being discharged from the defendant hospital was not due[...]

$3.7M Florida Medical Malpractice Arbitration Award For Pregnant Woman’s Death

August 26, 2016

On August 2, 2016, a Florida medical malpractice arbitration panel found that the defendant hospital’s medical negligence caused the death of a pregnant woman who had gone to its emergency room with breathing problems. The medical malpractice arbitration panel awarded the woman’s child, [...]

South Dakota Medical Clinic Subject To Antitrust Claims For Refusal To Treat Prior Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

August 25, 2016

In a decision filed on August 17, 2016, a federal judge in South Dakota has ruled that a South Dakota medical clinic, which is the only medical clinic offering specialist services in the community its serves, is subject to antitrust claims by patients who were denied care at the clinic because of th[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For 93-Year-Old’s Hospital Death Settled

August 24, 2016

A California medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit for the death of a 93-year-old hospital patient who died as a result of alleged medical negligence while in the hospital has been settled for an undisclosed amount. The elderly woman’s family had reported the incident to the California De[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Admissibility Of Prior Physician Discipline When Testifying As A Medical Expert

August 23, 2016

In its opinion filed on August 19, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held that § 14-410 of the Health Occupations Article of the Annotated Code f Maryland (“HO”) generally prohibits the admission of a conse[...]

5 Cataract Patients Blinded By Anesthesiologist On The Same Day

August 22, 2016

Five patients who were undergoing cataract surgery at a facility in Massachusetts during a single morning in May 2014 suffered blindness when a contracted anesthesiologist, on his first day at the facility, allegedly placed the eye block injections into the patients’ eyes instead of the muscl[...]

Kentucky Jury Awards $21.2M For Unnecessary Cardiac Procedure

August 21, 2016

A Kentucky medical malpractice jury awarded a local man $21.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages on August 10, 2016 against a local hospital and its owner for allegedly allowing an unnecessary cardiac procedure to be performed on him. The jury found that the defendant hospital and its p[...]

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