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3-Year-Old Dies From Dental Malpractice In Hawaii

January 6, 2014

A 3-year-old died on January 3, 2014 in Hawaii , one month after she suffered cardiac arrest and became comatose during a dental procedure. According to the dental malpractice case filed by the little girl’s parents on December 30, 20113, the child was taken to a Kailua, Hawaii dentist on De[...]

$3.1M Erb’s Palsy Birth Injury Verdict Upheld

January 5, 2014

A New York appellate court has upheld a $3,150,000 verdict against an obstetrician-gynecologist involving the negligent delivery of a newborn that led to the baby suffering a brachial plexus injury that resulted in Erb’s palsy. The baby’s shoulder got stuck in her mother’s pubic [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Says Medical Malpractice Case Was Filed Too Late

January 4, 2014

In its decision filed on December 27, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Court of Appeals”) determined that the trial judge was correct in entering judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendants where the plaintiff filed her medical malpractice claim more than two y[...]

Disruptive Delaware Doctor Ordered To Pay Hospital’s Attorney’s Fees

January 3, 2014

The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) affirmed a lower court’s decision that an orthopedic surgeon who previously had privileges at a Delaware hospital must pay the hospital’s attorney’s fees in the amount of $412,942.85 and costs in the a[...]

Weird Florida Medical Malpractice Settlement Situation

January 2, 2014

A Florida appellate court on December 27, 2013 decided a case involving the medical malpractice settlement on behalf of the young malpractice victim (the parents’ medical malpractice complaint alleged that a Florida doctor had failed to timely diagnose and treat their son’s eye condit[...]

$28.5M Wyoming Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Verdict

January 1, 2014

At the conclusion of a three-week federal jury trial that ended last week, a Wyoming woman was awarded $28.5 million for her serious and permanent injuries suffered as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning arising from the faulty furnace in her apartment. The judgment included $2.7 million in com[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Victim Failed To Jump Through All Of The Legal Hoops

December 31, 2013

On December 19, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, issued its written opinion in a Maryland medical malpractice appeal where the trial judge had found that the plaintiff’s lawyer had failed to jump thro[...]

Organized Attack On People’s Rights: The American Tort Reform Association

December 30, 2013

There are well-financed organizations that were created and exist to champion efforts at limiting or eliminating the rights of victims of wrongful conduct by others to receive fair and just compensation for the injuries and harms they suffered. One of those organizations is the American Tort Refo[...]

13 Medicare Part B High-Billing Clinicians Responsible For $34M In Overpayments In 2009

December 29, 2013

In a report issued in December 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), it was reported that 13 Medicare Part B clinicians, each of whom billed Medicare $3 million or more in 2009, were responsible for mor[...]

Pennsylvania Court Upholds $13M Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict

December 28, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld a verdict in the amount of $12,951,884.74 (which includes the jury’s verdict, delay damages, and post-judgment interest) in favor of the Estate of a man who had died as a result of the delay in medical treatment at a hospital. A�[...]

Study Shows Conservative Treatment Just As Good As Surgery For Certain Knee Pain

December 27, 2013

In a Finnish study appearing in the December 26, 2013 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that the outcomes for study participants who had arthroscopic partial meniscectomy were no better than for study participants who had a “sham” surgical pr[...]

Physical Therapy Malpractice Settlement

December 26, 2013

The malpractice insurance company for a physical therapist settled a physical therapy malpractice claim against its insured by paying more than $200,000 to the patient, and paying more than $90,000 for legal expenses. The plaintiff was a nine-year-old child with cerebral palsy who the physical t[...]

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