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Obama Administration Responds To Recent SCOTUS Generic Drug Decision

July 11, 2013

As we discussed in our June 27, 2013 blog entitled “U.S. Supreme Court Decision Shields Generic Drug Manufacturers,” the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) held in its 5-4 decision filed on June 24, 2013 that personal injury claims against generic drug manufacturers under des[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Vacates $28 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 10, 2013

On July 3, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s second highest appellate court, vacated a Baltimore medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $28,301,825 (the Maryland medical malpractice jury originally awarded the plainti[...]

Ohio Hospital Agrees To $5.25 Million Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Settlement

July 9, 2013

On June 27, 2013, the Ohio Court of Claims approved a $5.25 million settlement between an Ohio state hospital and the family of a newborn who suffered a profound brain injury due to alleged obstetrical medical malpractice. The child’s parents had filed a medical malpractice claim against the[...]

When Are Medical Malpractice Damage Caps Fair And Reasonable?

July 8, 2013

NEVER. Some U.S. states have enacted laws to limit the amount of damages that can be recovered by victims of medical malpractice from the negligent medical providers who were solely in the position to prevent the injuries they caused by simply providing the minimum level of care that their[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Due To Lack Of Health Insurance

July 7, 2013

On June 27, 2013, a Pennsylvania woman filed a medical malpractice case against a Pennsylvania hospital and four physicians in which she alleges that they were responsible for the wrongful death of her husband. The medical malpractice lawsuit seeks compensatory damages and punitive damages against[...]

Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict

July 6, 2013

On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Owed Duty To Pysch. Patient Who Left The Hospital ER And Jumped From A Bridge

July 5, 2013

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“the Appellate Court”) rendered its written opinion on June 27, 2013 in a case that held that the trial judge in a Maryland medical malpractice claim against a Baltimore hospital alleging serious injuries suffered by a patient with psychiat[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Treat Uninsured’s Necrotizing Fasciitis

July 4, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2013 for the disabling injuries and the substantial pain and suffering sustained by a 66-old-man who claims that a Missouri hospital emergency room failed to provide him required medical care because he did not have[...]

Mississippi Federal Judge Lambasts Mississippi’s Cap On Non-Economic Damages

July 3, 2013

On June 13, 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi upheld as constitutional Mississippi’s $500,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases but harshly criticized the application of the cap in the case before him. As the judge stated in his Order, “All grief is not equal. [...]

Georgia Supreme Court To Review Emergency Medical Care Gross Negligence Standard

July 2, 2013

In case a before the Supreme Court of Georgia that is scheduled for oral argument today, the parents of a 15-year-old who died as a result of pulmonary embolism despite being seen in a hospital emergency room two weeks earlier brought a medical malpractice claim against the emergency room physicia[...]

Competition For The Da Vinci Surgical System?

July 1, 2013

Robotic surgery represents the newest medical technology. The preeminent robotic surgery system, Intuitive Surgical’s proprietary da Vinci Surgical System, enables surgeons to perform delicate and complex operations through a few tiny incisions with increased vision, precision, dexterity, a[...]

$55 Million Settlement Approved For “Nose Doctor” Malpractice Lawsuits

June 30, 2013

On June 24, 2013, an Indiana judge approved a $55 million medical malpractice settlement involving 282 former patients of the self-proclaimed “Nose Doc.” The former Indiana surgeon allegedly performed unnecessary or fraudulent surgeries on patients so that he could bill insurance compani[...]

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