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Maryland’s Highest Court Reinstates $2.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2013

On August 22, 2013, Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $2,874.398 that the intermediate appellate court (the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland) had vacat[...]

Alabama Supreme Court: Expert Testimony Not Needed In Medical Malpractice Case Where Layperson Could Understand

August 26, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) on August 2, 2013, the Alabama Supreme Court stated the general rule that expert testimony is normally required in a medical malpractice case but the Court further stated, “A narrow exception to this rule[...]

State Medical Boards Are Failing Patients

August 25, 2013

An investigation report appearing in USA TODAY on August 20, 2013 found that thousands of doctors throughout the United States who lost their clinical privileges at hospitals and other medical facilities due to their misconduct were not punished by the state medical boards that were responsible fo[...]

Sperm Bank Meltdown Leads To 40 Lawsuits

August 24, 2013

On August 20, 2013, forty (40) lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court (Illinois) against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on behalf of men whose frozen sperm specimens that were stored by the defendants so that they could possibly become bi[...]

$153,000 Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Thyroid Cancer Surgery Upheld

August 23, 2013

On August 19, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) upheld a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $153,000 that a federal jury in Kansas had awarded the plaintiff in her medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a surgeon who was su[...]

Kentucky Hospital Agrees To Pay $2,833,408.60 To Settle False Claims Allegations

August 22, 2013

On July 1, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that University Medical Center (University of Louisville Hospital) has voluntarily entered into a settlement agreement w[...]

$2 Million Vaginal Mesh Verdict

August 21, 2013

A federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia returned a $2 million verdict on August 15, 2013 in favor of the female plaintiff and against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”), which had manufactured and sold the transvaginal mesh product called Avaulta Plus that had been implanted in the 55-year-old[...]

Dire Consequences Of Poor Dental Hygiene In Nursing Homes

August 20, 2013

An evaluation of 328 studies reported between 1996 and 2007 that appeared in the September 2010 edition of The Journal of the American Dental Association addressed the question, “Does better oral hygiene prevent health care–associated pneumonia or lower the rate of respiratory infectio[...]

$525,000 Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

August 19, 2013

Following a four-day jury trial and seven hours of jury deliberations that ended on August 1, 2013, a Missouri medial malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $525,000 in favor of the female plaintiff and against the defendant primary care physician who she alleged committed medical ne[...]

Physician Assistant Malpractice

August 18, 2013

Statistics for the rate of Physician Assistant (“PA”) malpractice claims between 1991 and 2007 indicate that medical malpractice payments made on behalf of PAs were one-half of the rate of medical malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians. The probability of a PA making a medi[...]

Federal Appeals Court Upholds VA Medical Malpractice Settlement Report To NPDB

August 17, 2013

On August 8, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the VA’s determination that a medical malpractice settlement that it paid following a patient’s death at a Veterans Affairs hospital was “for the benefit of” a consulting gastroenterologist and theref[...]

Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 16, 2013

Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]

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