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Maryland Board Of Physicians Annual Report Fiscal Year 2023

November 20, 2024

The Maryland Board of Physicians (the “Board”) is an agency of the state with the authority to license physicians and other health care providers such as physician assistants, radiographers, radiation therapists, radiologist assistants, nuclear medicine technologists, respiratory care pr[...]

$6M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Gallbladder Surgery

November 19, 2024

After a six-day medical malpractice wrongful death trial and less than one hour of jury deliberations, the family of a 71-year-old woman who died after gallbladder surgery in September 2017 received a verdict in the amount of $6 million against the partner of the surgeon had performed her gallbladde[...]

California Appellate Court Rules Legal Malpractice Claim Arising From Botched Medical Malpractice Claim Was Filed Too Late

November 18, 2024

After Ashlyn Lashinsky replaced her medical malpractivce lawyer, Kroger-Diamond, with new counsel, the personal injury defendants obtained summary judgment on grounds the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) one-year statute of limitations barred Lashinsky’s negligence claim, and Lashins[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Personal Injury Claim By Person Struck By Ambulance In Intersection Is A Medical Malpractice Claim

November 17, 2024

Emergency medical technician Nicole Mirza was transporting a patient (Willis) by ambulance on an emergency basis when she entered an intersection against a red light and was struck by a pickup truck driven by Dexter Fernil. Fernil and his spouse sued Mirza and her employer, alleging that Fernil was [...]

Illinois Supreme Court Holds Wrongful Death Beneficiary May Recover Loss Of Material Services Damages After Remarriage

November 16, 2024

The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois held in its September 19, 2024 Opinion: “in a claim under the [Wrongful Death] Act, a plaintiff’s remarriage does not affect the damages recoverable for the loss of a decedent’s material services. We therefore affirm judgment of the appellate cour[...]

$25.8M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Report Cancer Blood Test Result

November 15, 2024

On August 22, 2024, an Indiana medical malpractice jury awarded a now 70-year-old man and his wife $25.8 million against St. Mary Medical Center for the failure to timely report a blood test indicating early cancer to the physician who ordered the test. The specialist had ordered the blood work in 2[...]

What Are The Most Common Medical Malpractice Claims Against Physicians?

November 14, 2024

A comprehensive analysis was conducted of all paid medical malpractice claims for physicians, with linkage to physician specialty, from the National Practitioner Data Bank from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 2014, a period including an estimated 19.9 million physician-years. All dollar amounts were[...]

Who Are The Best Medical Malpractice Lawyers In Maryland?

November 13, 2024

Who are the best medical malpractice lawyers in Maryland? There are Maryland medical malpractice lawyers who have obtained large settlements and jury verdicts over the course of their legal careers. There are medical malpractice lawyers in Maryland who handle large case loads of medical malpractice [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Not Entitled To File Supplemental Certificate Of Qualified Expert

November 12, 2024

Supplemental Certificates of Qualified Experts (CQEs) in Maryland medical malpractice cases are governed by CJP § 3-2A-06D, which provides in relevant part: (b)(1) Within 15 days after the date that discovery is required to be completed, a party shall file with the court a supplemental certificate [...]

Virginia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants Due To Lack Of Causation Of Damages Expert Testimony

November 11, 2024

On January 16, 2019, the plaintiff filed a Virginia medical malpractice claim against Nurse PractitionerDarlene Olive; her company, Working Well, LLC; her supervising doctor, Dr. James W. Ross; and Dr. Ross’s company, Virginia Industrial Medicine. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants’ n[...]

$2.5M Settlement For Partial Loss Of Sight Due To Delayed Glaucoma Diagnosis

November 10, 2024

A 68-year-old woman had been the patient of The Princeton Eye Group in Princeton, New Jersey for more than 20 years. In February 2019, her eye doctor referred her to a glaucoma specialist. However, the woman alleged that the referral was made too late and that the delay caused her to suffer partial [...]

U.S. Emergency Departments Are Failing Pediatric Patients

November 9, 2024

A research article published on November 1, 2024 on JAMA Network entitled “State and National Estimates of the Cost of Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness and Lives Saved” found: “Our results suggest that more than one quarter of deaths among children receiving emergency care [...]

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