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$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[...]

$3.36M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For 11 Unnecessary Surgeries On Leg

July 30, 2025

On March 28, 2025, a New Jersey woman who was left disfigured after eleven unnecessary surgeries on her left leg settled her claims against the surgeon and the surgery center where the unnecessary surgeries took place (as well as its CEO), for $3.36 million. The defendant surgeon settled the claims [...]

Maryland Supreme Court Discusses Using Nurses As Qualified Experts In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 29, 2025

Under the Maryland Health Care Malpractice Claims Act (“HCMCA” or “Act”), unless the sole issue in a claim is lack ofinformed consent, a claimant must file a “certificate of a qualified expert … attesting to departure from standards of care, and that the departure from standards of care [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Juror’s Misconduct

July 29, 2025

Background After losing her medical malpractice case against Dr. Margaret Inman, Amanda Ping learned that one of the jurors who returned the adverse verdict had not disclosed that she recognized the name of a defense expert witness. Ping soughta new trial, which the trial court summarily denied. Pin[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Holds No Good Cause Shown For Late Certification Of Expert In Medical Malpractice Case

July 28, 2025

Iowa Code section 668.11 (2021) prohibits the testimony of experts in professional liability cases (Iowa medical malpractice cases) if not timely certified unless good cause is shown for missing the deadline. Iowa Code section 668.11 provides: A party in a professional liability case brought against[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case

July 27, 2025

Linda Newton died at Harford Memorial Hospital (“Hospital”) after falling into septic shock. Her estate (“Estate”) alleged that she died as a result of medical malpractice on the part of a radiologist, Haleema Javid, M.D., who read an x-ray taken when she presented to the Hospital with abdom[...]

$43.3M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Emergency Room Care

July 26, 2025

On April 10, 2025, a Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $43,330,947.34 in favor of the Estate of Anna Wyrwal. Anna is a 32-year-old woman who is in a permanent state of unresponsiveness following negligent hospital emergency room care that occurred in May 2020. An[...]

UnitedHealthcare Responds To Article Claiming Payments Made To Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 25, 2025

UnitedHealthcare’s Response To May 21, 2025 Article Appearing In The Guardian [see yesterday’s Blog article]: Statement from UnitedHealthcare “The U.S. Department of Justice investigated these allegations, interviewed witnesses, and obtained thousands of documents that demonstrated[...]

The Guardian Reports That UnitedHealth Group Paid Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 24, 2025

In an article appearing in The Guardian on May 21, 2025 entitled, “Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers,” The Guardian stated: UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Applies Safe Harbor Provision In Allowing Renewed Medical Malpractice Complaint

July 23, 2025

In Georgia, a complaint seeking damages for professional malpractice under OCGA§ 9-11-9.1(a) requires the plaintiff “to file with the complaint an affidavit of an expert competent to testify, which affidavit shall set forth specifically at least one negligent actor omission claimed to exist and t[...]

$2,865,495 Medical Malpractice Judgment Against Podiatrist Upheld By Illinois Appellate Court

July 22, 2025

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District First Division upheld an Illinois medical malpractice judgment against a podiatrist in the amount of $2,865,495, in its Order dated May 19, 2025. Background One December 13, 2016, plaintiff, who had been previously diagnosed with osteoporosis and Type 1[...]

Punitive Damages Awarded Against Pennsylvania Nursing Home Vacated On Appeal

July 21, 2025

Green Ridge Healthcare Group, LLC d/b/a Green Ridge Care Center and Saber Healthcare Group, LLP appealed from the $3,035,235.00 judgment (which included $2,700,000 in punitive damages) that was entered in favor of Mildred Bernavage, a 90-year-old resident of the nursing home who had suffered a fract[...]

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