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$958K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Wrongful Palliative Care

August 15, 2013

On August 7, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned a $958,000 verdict in favor of the family of a woman who was given palliative care in a hospital instead of continuing medical treatment for her severe leg ulcers. The 62-year-old woman died a few day[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Loss Means Parents Must Pay $340,000 For Defendant’s Costs

August 14, 2013

When a baby in the womb did not have a pulse and was not receiving oxygen for thirteen minutes during delivery four years ago, resulting in the baby suffering permanent brain damage requiring constant medical care for the rest of his life, without explanation as to what had occurred, the parents fi[...]

$1.45M Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Fire Injuries Caused By Smoking

August 13, 2013

A nursing home negligence jury in Virginia recently awarded $1.45 million to the estate of a man whose clothing caught on fire while he was allowed to smoke unsupervised at a Virginia nursing home. The incident occurred on June 3, 2011, when the wheelchair-bound nursing home resident’s swea[...]

Changes To Maryland’s Medical Assistance Lien Regulations For Medical Malpractice Claims

August 12, 2013

Effective June 24, 2013, Maryland made changes to its Medical Assistance (“MA”) lien recovery regulations that set forth the manner in which the amount of the lien will be reduced in medical malpractice and other personal injury claims for attorney’s fees incurred by the MA recipi[...]

Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors

August 11, 2013

In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic errors is estimated to be between 10% and 15%, with the rate highest for specialties such as emergen[...]

Unsafe Injection Practices And Contaminated Needles

August 10, 2013

The CDC reports that a survey of U.S. healthcare workers who provide medication through injection found that 1% to 3% reused the same needle and/or syringe on multiple patients (some healthcare personnel are unaware of, do not understand, or do not adhere to basic principles of infection control an[...]

Study: Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Do Not Decrease Defensive Medicine

August 9, 2013

The results of a study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change that was funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform and which appears in the August 2013 edition of the journal Health Affairs found that office-based physicians who reported a high level of medical malpr[...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Protects Indigent Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

August 8, 2013

In its opinion filed on August 5, 2013, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) came to the aid of indigent medical malpractice plaintiffs when it decided that a judge may not refuse to reduce the amount of a required bond solely because he or she believes the plaintiffs̵[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Loss Based On Statute Of Limitations

August 7, 2013

The Indiana Supreme Court revived a medical malpractice claim that the trial court had determined to have been filed too late under the relevant Indiana statute of limitations. The Indiana Supreme Court began its written opinion by stating, “In this case, the parties have spent five years d[...]

Kentucky Children’s Hospital Continues To Refuse To Provide Data On Pediatric Heart Surgery Deaths

August 6, 2013

What’s going on with the Kentucky Children’s Hospital? It continues to refuse to provide data regarding pediatric heart surgery deaths despite the March 27, 2013 Open Records Decision of the Kentucky Attorney General that found that the University of Kentucky violated the Open Records [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

August 5, 2013

In its written opinion dated July 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”) affirmed a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $400,000 in compensatory damages for a knee infection claim, $500,000 in compensatory damages for a wro[...]

Supreme Court Of Florida Rejects Arbitration Agreement In Medical Malpractice Case

August 4, 2013

In its decision filed on June 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that an agreement to arbitrate a medical malpractice claim against a Florida surgeon was unenforceable. The patient had signed a “Financial Agreement” prior to his surgery t[...]

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