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$73M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict In Texas

September 14, 2014

After a two-week jury trial that concluded on September 8, 2014, the 42-year-old plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Texas state court for her alleged injuries as a result of her transvaginal mesh implant that she claimed was defective won a jury verdict in her favor in the amount of $73 million agains[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Trial For Death Due To Pulmonary Embolism

September 13, 2014

A Florida medical malpractice trial that started on September 8, 2014 and is expected to last from two to three weeks seeks compensatory damages from the defendant physician, defendant hospital, and defendant home health care service for a 78-year-old man who died on March 2, 2011 due to alleged neg[...]

$3.27M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict

September 12, 2014

On September 5, 2014, after a two-week trial in federal court in West Virginia, a jury awarded $3.27 million to the plaintiff for her alleged injuries resulting from the transvaginal mesh that had been implanted in her to treat her urinary incontinence. The plaintiff alleged that she had to undergo[...]

Wisconsin Trial Judges Question $1.15B Medical Malpractice Fund Balance

September 11, 2014

As part of Wisconsin’s medical malpractice reforms that include a limit on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that was set at $750,000 in 2006 (after the prior $350,000 cap was declared unconstitutional by the Wisconsin Supreme Court), Wisconsin legislators created the Injured[...]

Today, We Celebrate Our 1,300th CONSECUTIVE Daily Blog Posting

September 10, 2014

When we began our blogging on a daily basis three-and-a-half years ago on March 5, 2011, we had no particular goal in mind as to how many consecutive daily blogs we would post. In fact, we were concerned that we would soon run out of relevant medical malpractice topics that we could blog about and [[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Resident Treated Like An Animal

September 9, 2014

When the daughter of a 74-year-old Iowa nursing home resident visited her mother early last month after receiving a telephone call from the nursing home the night before that her mother was restless, screaming, and they did not know what to do, she immediately heard her mother screaming from her [...]

$2.8M Dental Malpractice Verdict

September 8, 2014

After a four-day trial that began on August 18, 2014, it took a dental malpractice jury only 40 minutes to return its $2.8 million verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the employer of a dentist who allegedly provided dental services that fell below the standard of care, thereby causing t[...]

Suspended Maryland Physician Surrenders Medical License In Wake Of Sexual Misconduct Charges

September 7, 2014

On August 20, 2014, a Maryland physician who had his Maryland medical license summarily suspended on June 5, 2014 after the Maryland Board of Physicians (“Board”) determined that “the public health, safety or welfare imperatively require emergency action in this case,” volunt[...]

Johns Hopkins Hospital’s $190M Settlement In Jeopardy?

September 6, 2014

The $190 million settlement reached by plaintiffs’ attorneys and The Johns Hopkins Hospital (“Hopkins”) in a mandatory class-action lawsuit involving allegations that a former Hopkins gynecologist secretly recorded his patients during examinations is required to obtain final appr[...]

California Nursing Home Sued For 91-Year-Old’s Fall

September 5, 2014

On August 27, 2014, a California nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed against an Arroyo Grande nursing home for the serious injuries suffered by a 91-year-old resident after she slipped and fell to the floor in her bathroom because the nursing home staff failed to help her. The nursing home m[...]

Confirmation Bias In Medical Malpractice Cases

September 4, 2014

Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias in which we favor information that confirms our previously held beliefs or biases, ignore contrary information, and which impacts not only how we gather information but also influences how we interpret and recall information. Because we tend to seek[...]

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Chronic Lyme Disease)

September 3, 2014

We often receive calls and inquiries from people throughout the United States who have chronic Lyme disease (properly called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome) who claim that their healthcare providers failed to timely and properly diagnose their Lyme disease and/or misdiagnosed their Lyme di[...]

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