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Idaho Supreme Court Affirms Liposuction Death Verdict

August 8, 2016

On August 4, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (“Idaho Supreme Court”) affirmed the verdict in favor of the surviving husband of a woman who underwent a liposuction and fat transfer procedure at an Idaho medical spa owned and operated by an anesthesiologist. The woman died le[...]

California Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Rape

August 7, 2016

On July 22, 2016, the son of a 78-year-old nursing home resident filed a nursing home rape case against his mother’s California nursing home, claiming that an employee of the defendant nursing home raped his mother in September 2015 while she was recovering from knee surgery. The elderly woman[...]

Arizona Supreme Court Discusses “Original Tortfeasor Rule” In Medical Malpractice Appeal

August 6, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 18, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona (“Arizona Supreme Court”) discussed, and limited, the application of the “original tortfeasor rule” (“OTR”) in a medical malpractice case. The Arizona Supreme Court held that the OTR�[...]

Public Citizen Files Lawsuit Seeking To Close Medical Malpractice Corporate Shield Loophole

August 5, 2016

Public Citizen, which self-describes as “serv[ing] as the people’s voice in the nation’s capital,” filed a federal lawsuit on July 26, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, requesting that the court compel the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and [...]

Total Medical Malpractice Payouts In U.S. Increased In 2015 For Third Consecutive Year

August 4, 2016

It has been reported that the total medical malpractice payouts in the United States reached $3.95 billion in 2015, which was an increase of 1.68% from 2014. The Northeast region of the United States accounted for 45.93% of all medical malpractice payouts in the United States in 2015, which was an i[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reinstates Full Amount Of Medical Expenses In Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 15, 2016, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) reinstated an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of medical expenses to the plaintiff in the amount of $133,347.91, which the trial judge had reduced by $91,724.03, [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds That Scope Of Informed Consent Is A Medical Malpractice Claim And Therefore Requires A Medical Expert’s Affidavit

August 2, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 28, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held that in a medical malpractice claim, allegations raising the scope of informed consent rather than the absence of consent to a medical procedure, even when pleaded as a battery [...]

$4.7M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome

August 1, 2016

On July 15, 2016, an Indiana judge awarded an Indiana couple a total of $4.7 million following a bench trial in April 2016, finding that the husband’s treating physician breached the standard of care by failing to diagnose the husband’s infection that resulted in cauda equina syndrome th[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Clears Defendant Doctors For Hospital Patient’s Death

July 31, 2016

On July 21, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant pulmonologist and the defendant ENT, finding that they had not breached the standard of care in their treatment of a 56-year-old man who they had examined in the hospital only hours before he suffered[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Discusses Ostensible Agency In Medical Malpractice Case

July 30, 2016

In an unreported decision, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) discussed ostensible agency in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff was attempting to hold a hospital responsible for the alleged medical negligence of a gastroenterologist who had perforate[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Refuses To Compel Wrongful Death Beneficiary To Arbitrate Nursing Home Claim

July 29, 2016

In its reported opinion filed on July 28, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, refused to compel the wrongful death beneficiary to arbitrate her Maryland wrongful death claim against a Maryland nursi[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Insurer Agrees To Pay Judgment In Excess Of Policy Limits

July 28, 2016

A Georgia primary care physician and his medical clinic had a total medical malpractice insurance policy limit in the amount of $2 million but their medical malpractice insurance company has agreed to pay in full the $4.9 million medical malpractice judgment against them (which includes $200,000 for[...]

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