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Florida Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Drug Treatment Facility

July 20, 2025

Anthony Burley (the Decedent) was involuntarily committed to The Village South, Inc. (Village South), an addiction treatment facility. After less than a month, he was discharged for violating the facility’s rules, and forty eight days after discharge, he died from a drug overdose. His father, Robe[...]

CT Scans May Account For 5% Of All New Cancer Diagnoses Annually

July 19, 2025

Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States. CT scans expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels known to be associated with increased cancer risk. Several large retrospective cohort studies have shown that ch[...]

Residents Of Bankrupt Nursing Homes More Likely To Suffer Physical Restraints And Bedsores

July 18, 2025

Nursing homes are a $200 billion industry in the U.S. There are more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States that employ about 1.4 million staff and provide services to more than 1.3 million residents daily. Total debt in the U.S. healthcare sector doubled between 2019 and 2024. Moody’s rat[...]

$8.1M Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Improperly Treated Infection Leading To Paralysis

July 17, 2025

A Tennessee medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $8.1 million for a man who was 55-years-old when his doctor failed to properly diagnose and treat an infection in his right shoulder that led to him developing a spinal epidural abscess from C2 to T1 that resulted in permanen[...]

Study: Staffing Problems Are Leading To Physician Burnout

July 16, 2025

A research letter published on May 14, 2025 in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Incomplete Team Staffing, Burnout, and Work Intentions Among US Physicians” reported on the results of a survey conducted from December 13, 2022 to March 31, 2025 of 970 physicians (53.1% men and 43.4% women)[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Holds Jury Should Decide When Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations Began To Run In Fraudulent Concealment Of Sperm Donor Claim

July 15, 2025

Anonymous Physician (“Physician”) used his own sperm to inseminate the mother of Anonymous Child I without her consent. Child was born in 1985. On May 26, 2022, Child filed a Proposed Complaint for Damages with the Indiana Department of Insurance (“IDOI”) against Physician and Anonymous Heal[...]

Study Investigated Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In VA Nursing Homes

July 14, 2025

The study reported: “Nursing home (NH) residents in the United States routinely attend interactive visits for services such as therapy or dialysis, creating opportunities for pathogen transmission. A paucity of studies exist which delineate spread of pathogens beyond residents’ in-room envir[...]

$16M South Carolina Newborn Death Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 13, 2025

On March 5, 2025, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury returned a $16 million medical malpractice verdict for the death of a newborn shortly after birth. In April 2019, Dara Robinson found out she was pregnant. During her prenatal care, Dara experienced elevated glucose levels and the fetus was[...]

Maryland Supreme Court Holds Medical Records Retrieval Company Cannot Charge Fee For Search That Finds No Records

July 12, 2025

The Maryland General Assembly enacted the Confidentiality of Medical Records Act, Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. §§ 4-301 – 4-310 (2023 Repl.; 2024 Supp.), to protect the privacy of patients and maintain the confidentiality of medical records by establishing rules for the maintenance and disclosure [...]

$5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Dental Procedure

July 11, 2025

On May 2, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,021,000 after six hours of deliberations following a five-day trial for the death of a 30-year-old woman who collapsed and died from multiple pulmonary emboli in her lungs as her husband was a[...]

$70M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman Who Had Both Legs Amputated Due To Medical Negligence

July 10, 2025

A Georgia medical malpractice jury recently returned a verdict in the amount of $70 million against three physicians that the young female plaintiff alleged were negligent in their treatment of her sepsis and shock, leading to the amputation of both of her legs above the knees. The then 28-year-old [...]

$5.6M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Stent Procedure Resulting In Heart Failure

July 9, 2025

On April 25, 2025, a Cook County Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.59 million in favor of a man who underwent a cardiac stent procedure that implanted an undersized stent that caused him to suffer permanent heart damage. On June 22, 2020, the 59-year-old man [...]

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