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Kentucky Lawmakers Looking To Pass Unnecessary Medical Malpractice Laws

January 30, 2014

Some Kentucky lawmakers, with the backing, support, and legislative push of a vocal and powerful coalition of financially-interested health care groups, are setting their sights on pushing forward with their agenda of imposing unnecessary medical malpractice “reforms” that will benefit[...]

$27.5M Ohio Verdict For Mesothelioma Victim

January 29, 2014

On December 18, 2013, after an 11-day trial, a jury in Ohio awarded a 40-year-old man and his wife a record $27.5 million for the man’s mesothelioma, a rare and often fatal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. The jury awarded the man $515,000 in economic damages, $12 million in nonecono[...]

Did California Hospital Intentionally Cover Up Cause Of Patient’s Death?

January 28, 2014

In a California medical malpractice/wrongful death case scheduled for trial shortly, a California hospital is alleged to have intentionally covered up the real cause of a patient’s death. The lawsuit alleges that the hospital and the patient’s surgeon conspired to deflect their respons[...]

$2.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Teen’s Misdiagnosed Cancer Death

January 27, 2014

On January 17, 2014, after a five-day medical malpractice trial, a Maryland jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million after finding a surgeon was medically negligent in failing to timely diagnose a 19-year-old’s cancer that resulted in her dea[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Says Medical Records Admissible As Evidence Of Causation In Medical Malpractice Claim

January 26, 2014

In its decision published on December 31, 2013, the Connecticut Supreme Court examined the circumstances under which a treating physician’s medical records can be admitted as evidence of causation in a medical malpractice action. The Connecticut Supreme Court stated that an expert’s opinion i[...]

South Dakota Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice

January 25, 2014

On January 16, 2014, after four days of trial and three hours of jury deliberations, a South Dakota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $776,000 against the defendant surgeon and in favor of a woman who suffered end-stage liver disease allegedly as a result of her surg[...]

VA Medical Malpractice Claim For Failure To Advise Patient Of Melanoma Diagnosis

January 24, 2014

A federal medical malpractice lawsuit involving the Bath VA Medical Center in New York was filed on January 8, 2014 on behalf of a 70-year-old man whose malignant melanoma was diagnosed after a biopsy of a skin lesion but he was not advised of the diagnosis of melanoma until two years later. Th[...]

New Effort To Reimpose Medical Malpractice Cap In Missouri

January 23, 2014

If you or a family member may be the victim of medical negligence in Missouri that causes horrendous and debilitating pain and suffering or other substantial noneconomic harms, your right to receive fair, just, and full compensation for your losses and injuries is being attacked, once again, by Mi[...]

Two Massachusetts Maternal Deaths At One Hospital In Thirty Days

January 22, 2014

Within a 30-day period, two mothers who had given birth in the same hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts died shortly after delivery. The two deaths within a one month period are unusual because maternal deaths are rare — there were only three maternal deaths in Massachusetts in 2012, three[...]

Maryland Physician Discipline Statistics For Fiscal Year 2013

January 21, 2014

The Maryland Board of Physicians Annual Report to the Legislative Policy Committee for Fiscal Year 2013 that was forwarded on November 7, 2013 stated that the Board had issued 1,800 initial medical licenses, 152 reinstated medical licenses, and registered 2,650 unlicensed medical practitione[...]

Washington Supreme Court Finds Part Of Medical Malpractice Law Unconstitutional

January 20, 2014

On January 16, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held that a Washington statute that eliminates tolling of the statute of limitations for minors in the context of medical malpractice claims is unconstitutional: “We hold that RCW 4.16.[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Emergency Room Negligence (Twice)

January 19, 2014

On December 23, 2013, a Louisiana medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by a woman on her own behalf and on behalf of her two minor children for the death of her husband that was due to alleged medical malpractice that occurred in a hospital emergency room on two separate occasions. The medical m[...]

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