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Appellate Court Affirms Colorado Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

December 31, 2014

In an unpublished opinion filed on December 24, 2014, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a Colorado medical malpractice defense verdict, finding that any error in the jury instructions regarding comparative negligence and mitigation of damages that were given by the trial judge was harmless erro[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Says Nursing Home Fall Claim Is Not A Medical Malpractice Claim

December 30, 2014

In its decision filed on December 23, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Tenth Appellate District (“Appellate Court”) held that the plaintiff’s claim for injury due to a nursing home fall was a negligence claim and not a medical malpractice (medical negligence) claim. The Appella[...]

Military Hospital Whistleblowers Face Unique Risks

December 29, 2014

In an article published in The New York Times on December 20, 2014, the professional and financial risks that military hospital whistleblowers are exposed to were highlighted and discussed. While whistleblowers at civilian hospitals in the United States face many of the same risks to their careers [...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Brain Damage Due To Dislodged Breathing Tube

December 28, 2014

Earlier this month, the husband of a 29-year-old woman who is the mother of two young children filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Texas against a hospital and its medical staff whose alleged medical negligence resulted in the woman now being in a permanent near-comatose state that requires he[...]

Washington Supreme Court Reinstates Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 27, 2014

The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) issued its written opinion on December 11, 2014 in a case in which it reinstated a Washington medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff that had been vacated by the trial judge and affirmed by the low[...]

North Carolina Hospital Loses Appeal Seeking To Hide Incident Report

December 26, 2014

In its opinion filed on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Supreme Court”) held that the defendant hospital was not shielded from providing the medical malpractice plaintiff with the results of its internal investigation into an operating room fire that seriously i[...]

Defendant Physician’s Medical License Problems Held Irrelevant In Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case

December 25, 2014

In its decision issued on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) held that the defendant physician’s medical license problems were not admissible in the case it was deciding because evidence of collateral misconduct to show a person’s pro[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Woman’s Death In ER

December 24, 2014

In October 2014, the family of a woman who died after being mistreated for a heart attack in a hospital emergency room in Louisiana filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the physician who had treated the woman in the emergency room and the hospital where the alleged medical negligence took p[...]

North Carolina Surgeon Found Liable For Medical Negligence

December 23, 2014

On December 17, 2014, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury found that the defendant surgeon was negligent in performing surgery on a pregnant patient in 2009. The medical malpractice testimony in the case began on December 8 and was capped by the defendant testifying on his own behalf the day [...]

Perpetrators Of $56M Medicare Fraud Scheme Plead Guilty

December 22, 2014

On December 17, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs announced that the mastermind of a $56 million Medicare fraud scheme and his physician-accomplice have pleaded guilty in the federal court in Louisiana to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to falsify r[...]

$3.4M Delaware Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 21, 2014

On December 11, 2014, after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations, the 52-year-old plaintiff in a Delaware medical malpractice case was awarded $3,425,515 in damages for her loss of income, medical expenses, and her pain and suffering arising out of an allegedly botched surgery on [...]

14 Indicted In Connection With NECC Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

December 20, 2014

According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, a 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed on December 17, 2014 in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak traced back to the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”). The owner/head pharmac[...]

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