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Georgia Judge Increases $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict To Nearly $4.5M

February 11, 2014

On February 4, 2014, a Georgia judge determined that the plaintiffs’ medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $3 million for a baby’s permanent and severe brain damage suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice shortly after his birth will be increased to almost $4.5 millio[...]

$2.7M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Lung Disease

February 10, 2014

In December 2013, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,700,000 in favor of a woman and her family for the woman developing terminal lung disease as a result of a combination of medications she was prescribed. While the results of an abnormal chest x-ray to che[...]

Virginia Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled For Fungal Meningitis Death

February 9, 2014

A man suffering from back pain received contaminated steroids at a Roanoke clinic and died as a result of fungal meningitis. His family has now settled for an undisclosed sum the medical malpractice lawsuit that they had filed in December 2012 and that had sought $25 million in damages. The man ha[...]

Florida Supreme Court Upholds Intent Of Amendment 7

February 8, 2014

In its decision dated January 30, 2014, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) upheld the intent of so-called Amendment 7 (Art. X, § 25, Fla. Const.), which is entitled, “Patients’ right to know about adverse medical incidents.” Amendment 7 was passed[...]

Florida Breast Augmentation Surgery Leads To Coma, Brain Damage

February 7, 2014

An 18-year-old Florida woman who elected to have breast augmentation surgery in August 2013 at a cosmetic surgery center located in Miami, Florida experienced a depressed heart rate shortly after the surgery and had atropine administered by the anesthesiologist and needed chest compressions. She wa[...]

Informed Consent Claim In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

February 6, 2014

Medical malpractice claims often include a separate claim for lack of informed consent, which is a claim separate (and different) from a medical malpractice claim. A medical malpractice claim involves the allegation that a health care provider breached the applicable standard of care required unde[...]

$32.8M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Verdict For Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy

February 5, 2014

On January 17, 2014, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs and against two nurses who were the defendants whom the jurors determined to have been negligent in failing to alert the doctor performing the delivery of a baby that the baby’s heart rate had droppe[...]

$330.7M Risperdal Verdict In Louisiana Overturned

February 4, 2014

By its written opinion dated January 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Louisiana (“Louisiana Supreme Court”) reversed (overturned) a lower court’s verdict that had awarded civil penalties in the amount of $257,679,500.00, attorney fees in the amount of $70,000,000.00, and costs [...]

Hershey Medical Center Pays $400,000 To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim

February 3, 2014

The family of a 76-year-old man who had been litigating a medical malpractice case against the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania for five years has settled the medical malpractice claims by agreeing to accept $400,000 from the Pennsylvania hospital. The family had [...]

FDA Issues Testosterone Therapy Safety Alert

February 2, 2014

On January 31, 2014, the FDA issued a Safety Announcement regarding FDA-approved testosterone products. The FDA’s alert concerns the risk of stroke, heart attack, and death in men taking testosterone products that the FDA had previously approved; two recent studies suggest an increased ris[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Child’s Lost Testicles

February 1, 2014

On January 23, 2014, an Oregon jury found in favor of the defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that a little boy’s testicles were negligently lost during surgery to address his undescended testicles. The twelve-person jury deliberated for about six hours after a six-day t[...]

Republican Party’s Alternative To Obamacare Shows Its Disdain For Our Jury System

January 31, 2014

The Republican Party’s recently published counter-proposal in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) shows its utter disdain for the American jury system. The Republican Party’s proposal, which it calls The Patient Choice, Affordability, [...]

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