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Ohio Appellate Court Holds Hospital May Be Liable For Nurse’s Malpractice Under Respondeat Superior

June 2, 2025

Linda Marshall’s husband died at Mercy Health-Anderson Hospital. After her husband’s death, she filed an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against various individuals and the hospital, but she did not name as a defendant the nurse on her husband’s care team. After the statute of [...]

$3.45M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Profound Hearing Loss In Toddler

June 1, 2025

A Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded a young child $3.45 million against the pediatrician who was his doctor from birth to age five, for the pediatrician’s failure to diagnose his severe-profound sensorineural hearing loss despite the child exhibiting significant speech delays that[...]

Iowa Agrees To Pay $1.4M For Woman Who Died After Falling From Bed In Hospital

May 31, 2025

Bounthath Phetsomphou was 75-years-old when she had surgery on January 15, 2019 to remove a cancerous lesion in her cheek at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Immediately after the successful surgery, she was placed in the Intensive Care Unit (“ICU”). Shortly afterwards, she [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

May 30, 2025

The plaintiffs filed their New York medical malpractice action against Nadezhda Krebs, Natela Abramov, and Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens (“Mount Sinai”) alleging that they deviated from the accepted standard of medical care by clearing the plaintiffs’ decedent for general anesthesia d[...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Involving Perforation Of Colon During Colonoscopy

May 29, 2025

A Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant gastroenterologist in January 2025 in a case that alleged that the gastroenterologist negligently performed a polypectomy during a screening colonoscopy on November 13, 2019, causing a colon perforation. The basis of [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Possible Common Law Cause Of Action For Violation Of New Jersey Declaration of Death Act

May 28, 2025

While hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, decedent Pamela Wright was declared brain dead and died shortly after defendants removed her from life-supporting devices. Plaintiff Jermaine Spence (Wright’s son) instituted suit against defendants individually and as the administrat[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For 2-Year-Old’s Death Due To Delayed Treatment Of Allergic Reaction To Fire Ant Bites

May 27, 2025

On April 4, 2025, a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed by the estate of a two-year-old, and her grieving parents, alleging that medical malpractice that occurred in an emergency department of a local hospital led to the unnecessary death of the young child. The lawsuit alle[...]

$335M Opioid Settlement Reached With Mylan Inc.

May 26, 2025

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on April 7, 2025 that her office secured a multistate settlement in principle with pharmaceutical company Mylan Inc. (Mylan) that will deliver up to $335 million nationwide to help combat the opioid crisis. Mylan, which is now a part of Viatris, has [...]

$25M Verdict Against Washington State Jail Health Care Provider

May 25, 2025

On April 4, 2025, a Washington state jury returned its verdict in the amount of $25 million in favor of a man who was in custody at Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, Washington when his untreated blood clotting led to his foot turning black and gangrenous, and resulted in a below the knee amputation. Th[...]

$2M Settlement Reached For Teen Who Died In Jail Custody Due To Untreated Drug Overdose

May 24, 2025

It has been reported that the mother of a 19-year-old woman who died while in custody at the Rolette County Jail in Rolla, North Dakota, from a drug overdose that was not properly treated has accepted the $2 million settlement offer from the county defendant. The mother filed her lawsuit in 2022 for[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Healthy Kidney Removed Instead Of Diseased Spleen

May 23, 2025

A Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit filed on May 16, 2025 alleges that the Plaintiff’s healthy left kidney was wrongfully removed during surgery that was intended to remove her diseased spleen. The lawsuit states, in part: Rappaport v. Callahan, M.D., Hennepin County District Court, Case N[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Defendant Doctor In Medical Malpractice Case Failed To Timely Seek Continuance Of Trial Date Due To Religious Holiday

May 22, 2025

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial began on September 25, 2023 and ended on September 28, 2023. Defendant Peter Gross, D.O. (“Dr. Gross”) did not attend the first day of trial because it was Yom Kippur, but he attended trial on each of the remaining days. On the last day of trial, [...]

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