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$2M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman From China Who Died After Giving Birth

November 8, 2015

On November 2, 2015, after a seven-week California medical malpractice trial involving the death of a 26-year-old Chinese woman who came to the United States to give birth to her second child, the medical malpractice jury found in favor of the woman’s family and awarded approximately $2 mill[...]

Florida’s Amendment 7 Pre-Empted By Federal Law

November 7, 2015

In its written opinion filed on October 28, 2015, the District Court of Appeal First District (“Appellate Court”) held that Florida’s Amendment 7 (Article 10, section 25, of the Florida Constitution), which was adopted in 2004 and provides “a right to have access to any reco[...]

PA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Responsible For 15-Year-Old’s Death

November 6, 2015

A Pennsylvania wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit scheduled for trial in January 2016 alleges that the defendant hospital, its emergency room physician, and others were medically negligent in discharging a 15-year-old patient from the emergency room before properly treating him and diagnosi[...]

$850,000 Medical Malpractice Settlement For Blindness Following Prostate Surgery

November 5, 2015

Who among us would ever expect to wake up blind following prostate surgery? That nightmare was the reality for a former military man who had undergone prostate surgery at a military hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. While continuing to deny liability, the United States recently agreed to settle the ma[...]

$2.2M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

November 4, 2015

On October 23, 2015, a 12-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $2.2 million ($300,000 for past pain and suffering, $1.7 million for future pain and suffering, and $200,000 for the injured party’s wife, for her loss of consortium claim)[...]

Pradaxa Reversal Agent Approved

November 3, 2015

In 2010, the FDA approved the prescription blood-thinning drug Pradaxa (dabigatran) to prevent stroke and systemic blood clots in patients with atrial fibrillation, as well as for the treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. On October 16, 2015, the FDA granted acc[...]

Vermont Supreme Court Discusses Effect Of Juror’s Email During Medical Malpractice Trial

November 2, 2015

The Vermont Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in a Vermont medical malpractice case where a juror, who performed security work at the defendant hospital, received an email from the defendant hospital during the medical malpractice trial in which the hospital denied that it had done anything [...]

$12.2M Illinois Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Upheld

November 1, 2015

In its decision filed on October 21, 2015, the Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial District Third Division (“Appellate Court”) upheld an Illinois medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $12,261,131 in favor of the widow of a man who died on October 25, 2009 from complic[...]

Vermont Supreme Court Discusses Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Cataract Surgery Malpractice Case

October 31, 2015

In its decision filed on October 9, 2015, the Vermont Supreme Court overturned the lower court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant ophthalmologist, concluding that in the plaintiff’s medical expert’s opinion that (1) there was at least a fifty-one percent ch[...]

Rhode Island Supreme Court Requires Insurance Defense For Nursing Home Resident’s Sexual Assault Claim

October 30, 2015

In its opinion filed on June 5, 2015, the Rhode Island Supreme Court (“the Court”) held that the Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association of Rhode Island (“JUA”) had a duty to defend its insured (a nursing home, two of its general partners, and two of its employ[...]

First Tylenol Liver Damage Trial Ends In Defense Verdict

October 29, 2015

On October 16, 2015, a jury in New Jersey absolved Johnson and Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare subsidiary from liability to the plaintiff for her liver damage allegedly caused by taking Tylenol (acetaminophen), after a three-week trial. The 55-year-old plaintiff had alleged that the manu[...]

16 State Attorneys General Voice Opposition To Pre-Dispute Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

October 28, 2015

Sixteen state attorneys general in the United States have written to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, voicing their opposition to pre-dispute nursing home arbitration agreements, stating that “pre-dispute binding arbitration agreements are harmful to residents of long-term care[...]

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