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Kansas Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Choking Death

March 18, 2016

During late February 2016, the family of a Kansas nursing home resident who choked to death after being allowed to snack on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, despite being on a restricted diet (pureed foods and thickened liquids only), filed a federal lawsuit against the nursing home and others, f[...]

$1.4M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Loss Of Eye

March 17, 2016

On February 4, 2016, a Baltimore City medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in excess of $1.4 million for his loss of sight in one eye that he alleged was due to negligently performed eye surgery. The verdict includes $1.4 million in non-economic damages, which was [...]

FDA May Require Black Box Warning For Essure

March 16, 2016

The FDA announced on February 29, 2016 that its intends to require changes to product labeling for the Essure implantable form of sterilization, including a boxed warning and a Patient Decision Checklist to help to ensure women receive and understand information regarding the benefits and risks of [...]

Trial Judge Throws Out $3.8M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

March 15, 2016

On March 10, 2016, shortly after dismissing the Baltimore medical malpractice jury that had just returned its verdict in the amount of $3.8 million in favor of the widow of a man who died as a result of the alleged gross negligence of the paramedics whom the plaintiff alleged did not take her husban[...]

Study Of Medical Malpractice Closed Claims For Hospitalists

March 14, 2016

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, recently released its analysis of 464 medical malpractice claims against hospitalists that the insurer closed from 2007 through 2014. The study included all claims and medical malpractice laws[...]

South Carolina Appeals Court Affirms Refusal To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

March 13, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 2, 2016, the South Carolina Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the lower court’s denial of the defendant nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration regarding the plaintiff’s wrongful death and survival action arising out the n[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Orders Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

March 12, 2016

In its opinion filed on February 18, 2016, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) overturned a lower court’s decision that the nursing home negligence claims brought by the plaintiff were not subject to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement signed by t[...]

$1.52M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Injury During Hysterectomy

March 11, 2016

On March 2, 2016, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 51-year-old plaintiff who suffered a bowel injury during her hysterectomy procedure in 2011 that was not discovered or treated by the defendant surgeon at the time of the surgery. As a result, the woman develo[...]

$2.38M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Knee Surgery

March 10, 2016

On February 23, 2016, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 59-year-old plaintiff who suffered permanent nerve damage during knee surgery that resulted in foot drop and chronic pain. The Baltimore medical malpractice jury trial began on February 16, 2016 and concl[...]

$72M Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

March 9, 2016

On February 22, 2016, a Missouri jury awarded $72 million to the estate of a woman who claimed that the ovarian cancer that caused her death in 2015 was as a result of the Johnson & Johnson talcum powder-based products that she used on a daily basis for many years. The St. Louis, Missouri[...]

Baltimore Wrongful Birth Verdict For Plaintiff

March 8, 2016

On March 4, 2016, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff who alleged that the defendant OB/GYN failed to perform genetic testing during her pregnancy that would have disclosed that her fetus had Down’s Syndrome, and failed to notify her of her level[...]

$1M Nursing Home Bedsore Claim Settlement

March 7, 2016

In late February 2016, shortly before the March 4 scheduled start of a California nursing home negligence and elder abuse lawsuit, the parties announced that the defendant California nursing home, which charges residents $100,000 per year for nursing home care and promised its residents that it woul[...]

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