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Kentucky Settles Two Pharmaceutical Cases For $39.5M

January 7, 2016

The Attorney General of Kentucky announced on December 23, 2015 that Kentucky had settled two pharmaceutical cases on December 22, 2015 that it had brought against Purdue Pharma regarding its opiod prescription medication, OxyContin, and against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson &am[...]

“Retained Surgical Items” Guideline Updated

January 6, 2016

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (“AORN”), which represents the interests of more than 160,000 perioperative nurses by providing nursing education, standards, and clinical practice resources, recently updated its guideline regarding so-called retained surgical items (&[...]

FDA Reclassifies Transvaginal Surgical Mesh Used To Repair Pelvic Organ Prolapse As High-Risk Medical Device

January 5, 2016

On January 4, 2016, the FDA announced that it was issuing two final orders regarding surgical mesh used to transvaginally repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP). One final order reclassified transvaginal surgical mesh used to repair POP from a Class II medical device (moderate-risk medical devices) [...]

$1.57M Washington State Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis

January 4, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a Washington State medical malpractice jury awarded a 56-year-old former carpenter and his wife $1.57 million in their medical malpractice case against a local hospital that they claimed was negligent in failing to timely diagnose the husband’s serious medical complicatio[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reverses Judgment Notwithstanding The Verdict Granted To Maryland Medical Malpractice Defendant

January 3, 2016

In its unreported decision filed on December 22, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s granting judgment notwithstanding the verdict to the defendant neurosurgeon in a Maryland medical malpractice case in which the jury had aw[...]

Guam Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule, Overturns $62,236.35 Dental Malpractice Verdict

January 2, 2016

The Supreme Court of Guam (“Guam Supreme Court”) overturned a dental malpractice verdict in the amount of $62,236.35 in favor of the plaintiff in its opinion filed on December 7, 2015, after determining that the one-year discovery ruled applied to the plaintiff’s dental malpractice[...]

U.S. Physicians And Their Disciplinary/Malpractice Statistics

January 1, 2016

The U.S. government and many U.S. states gather and publish statistics regarding physicians practicing medicine in the United States. Sometimes it is difficult for people to find information regarding physicians practicing in their state and the incidence of disciplinary actions and medical malpract[...]

Former Maryland Physician Loses Appeal Involving Medical Board

December 31, 2015

In its opinion filed on October 1, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) found in favor of the Maryland Board of Physicians (“Board”) in a discovery dispute involving a disciplined Maryland physician, stating that if the government asserts execu[...]

$80M California Verdict For Defective Ethicon Surgical Stapler Causing Anal Canal Closure

December 30, 2015

A California defective medical device claim against Johnson & Johnson regarding its Ethicon subsidiary’s Proximate surgical stapler has resulted in a jury award of $8.5 million in compensatory damages to the injured woman for her pain and suffering, disfigurement, humiliation, and med[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Affirms Plastic Surgeon’s Loss Of His Own Medical Malpractice Case

December 29, 2015

On November 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (“Alaska Supreme Court”) affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendants in a medical malpractice case filed by an Alaska plastic surgeon that alleged that the defendants were [...]

$950K Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict In Conservative Jurisdiction

December 28, 2015

On December 11, 2015, a medical malpractice jury in conservative Ford County, Illinois returned its verdict in the amount of $950,000 in favor of the family of a man who died allegedly as a result of medical negligence committed by his primary care physician. The largest previous medical malpra[...]

$1.4M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Rare Cancer

December 27, 2015

On October 28, 2015, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.4 million in a failure to diagnosis cancer case. The plaintiff alleged that his rare form of cancer (osteosarcoma) in his right knee remained negligently undiagnosed f[...]

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