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$6.5M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed

August 11, 2025

In 2018, Dr. Bradford Wall, a partner at Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P. C. (“GBJ”), performed a successful total knee replacement on Margaret Keel. During her overnight stay at GBJ, she was prescribed narcotic pain medications for herrecovery. The narcotics can slow a patient’s breathin[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Expert In Medical Malpractice Case Was Unqualified

August 10, 2025

N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-41 requires that a person executing an AOM (affidavit of merit) be licensed as a physician or other health care professional in the United States and meet detailed criteria. The statute provides that if the defendant against whom the AOM is offered is a “specialist or subspecia[...]

Iowa Federal Judge Vacates 24/7 RN Rule, Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

August 9, 2025

On June 20, 2025, a federal judge in Iowa “made a final determination that CMS lacked the authority to promulgate the HPRD [hours per resident day] requirements and 24/7 RN requirement” and therefore found “that the appropriate remedy in this context is to vacate the 24/7 RN and HP[...]

Texas Federal Judge Rules People With Disabilities Are Illegally Being Kept In Nursing Homes

August 8, 2025

A federal judge in Texas stated in his 475-page Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law filed on June 19, 2025: “Integration is fundamental to the purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Provision of segregated accommodations and services relegates persons with disabilities to second[...]

Ohio Woman Sues Surgeon For Allegedly Operating On Wrong Knee

August 7, 2025

An Ohio woman has sued University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) and its orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Sohn, alleging that Dr. Sohn was supposed to perform an ACL surgical repair on her left knee in 2023 but instead removed a healthy tendon from her right leg. According to the 33-year-old plaintiff[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds Medical Provider May Be Liable For Patient’s Suicide

August 6, 2025

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada stated in its Opinion filed on June 12, 2025: “In the instant medical malpractice action alleged that a medical provider’s negligence in treating his patient caused the patient to die by suicide. The district court granted summary judgment in favo[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds Doctor’s Convictions For Distributing Controlled Substances In Violation Of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)

August 5, 2025

A nurse at a medical clinic where Dr. George P. Naum, III worked prescribed controlled substances without the supervision of a doctor. Contending he knew about the nurse’s conduct but did not try to stop it, the government prosecuted Naum for conspiracy and for aiding and abetting the distribu[...]

Texas Supreme Court Affirms Claim That Doctor Is Liable For Mauling By Patient’s Service Dog Is Not Medical Malpractice Claim

August 4, 2025

A service dog attacked a young child in a restaurant. Her parents sued, among other defendants, a medical doctor who had written letters for the dog’s owner saying that her service animals help with her anxiety disorder. The parents did not dispute the correctness of the doctor’s opinions that t[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Denial Of Summary Judgment For Urgent Care Medical Malpractice Defendants

August 3, 2025

Plaintiffs filed their New York medical malpractice action seeking damages for injuries that Donald Scott (plaintiff) allegedly sustained as a result of the failure of the defendants, Theresa Mellas, P.A. and MedFirst Urgent Care, PLLC, doing business as MASH Urgent Care (MASH Urgent Care), to timel[...]

Nonprofit And Affiliated Nursing Homes Agree To Pay $3.61M To Resolve False Claims Act Liability

August 2, 2025

American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corporation, and three affiliated nursing homes — Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (Cheltenham), The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place (Wilmington Place), and Samaritan Care Center and Villa (Samaritan) — have agreed to pay[...]

Health Care Software Company’s CEO Convicted Of $1B Medicare Fraud Conspiracy

August 1, 2025

A federal jury convicted the CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC (DMERx) for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion. According to court documents and evidence presented at tri[...]

$5.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Amputated Leg

July 31, 2025

In early June 2025, a New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 75-year-old man, who exercised and swam regularly, $5.6 million for his leg amputation that was required due to a hospital emergency room visit on June 6, 2018, which he alleged was entirely preventable, according to his New York medi[...]

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