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Connecticut Supreme Court Discusses State Immunity From Medical Malpractice Claims

October 25, 2023

The Alleged Facts Connecticut operates the University of Connecticut Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, which provides prenatal care and labor and delivery services through the UConn Health Women’s Center (UConn). BetweenSeptember 1, 2019, and March 25, 2020, UConn undertook the ca[...]

New Mexico Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Negligence Allowed Mother To Place Newborn In Trash

October 24, 2023

Nineteen-year-old Alexee Trevizo, who has been charged with first-degree murder with the alternative of child abuse resulting in death and tampering with evidence, went to Artesia General Hospital on January 27, 2023 with complaints of severe back pain. She reportedly denied being pregnant when she [...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Patient’s Complaint For Injuries From Slip And Fall On Wet Floor In Hospital Was Not Medical Malpractice Claim

October 23, 2023

In a case on appeal decided by the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District (“Appellate Court”) on August 11, 2023, the Appellant, who was a patient in the Appellee hospital, alleged that while she was walking towards the restroom she slipped and fell. The only cau[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Finds Claim Against Residential Treatment Facility Covered Under Medical Malpractice Act

October 22, 2023

Shane Willingham alleged in his breach of contract complaint, “In the early morning of July 25, 2020, an Anderson Center employee located Plaintiff in the room of a female resident. On this and prior occasions the two had had sex. Their relationship should have been impossible had The Anderson[...]

Bard Loses Appeal Of $3.3M Intravascular Filter Verdict

October 21, 2023

Hoping to minimize her risk of suffering serious complications from future blood clots, plaintiff Natalie Johnson underwent surgery to implant a retrievable intravascular filter. Intravascular filters are medical devices that are placed in the inferior vena cava (the major lower vein that carries bl[...]

$13M Washington Cosmetic Surgery Medical Malpractice Verdict

October 20, 2023

In early August 2023, a Washington medical malpractice jury found that a cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Kristine Brecht, had performed a full-tummy tuck, arm-lift, breast-lift and liposuction cosmetic surgical procedures on a patient in July 2022 who was not properly screened before the procedures and who wa[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Affirms $10M Punitive Damages In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

October 19, 2023

The Supreme Court of Alabama, in its opinion released on August 4, 2023 in a medical malpractice wrongful death case in which the jury awarded punitive damages in the amount of $35 million that was subsequently reduced by the trial court to $10 million, stated: “In sum, given the degree of rep[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Rules Claims For Improperly Sterilized Surgical Instruments Are Medical Malpractice Claims

October 18, 2023

Linda Gierek and over a thousand other patients who underwent surgical procedures at a hospital operated by Anonymous 1, Anonymous 2, and Anonymous 3 (the Hospital) were informed by the Hospital that one of itstechnicians had failed to complete a step in the procedure for sterilizing certain surgica[...]

New York Physician Charged With Sexually Assaulting Patients In Hospital

October 17, 2023

According to the August 7, 2023 press release from Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, 33, was arraigned on a 50-count indictment charging him with sexually abusing three patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital and raping three other women in his Queens home. Cheng w[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Expert Failed To Exclude Other Causes Of Harm Suffered By Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

October 16, 2023

Gloria Smith brought a lawsuit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that Dr. Kennedy Okere, a doctor at the Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Center (“CVC”), a federally-supported health center, committed medical malpractice. According to Smith, Okere prescribed a [...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Nursing Home Pressure Ulcer Case

October 15, 2023

On July 7, 2023, after a five-day trial and three and a half hours of jury deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendants in a Virginia medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants negligently failed to prevent a nurs[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Against Emergency Department Trainees

October 14, 2023

Patients brought to hospital emergency departments are often unable to choose the medical staff that will treat them. In true emergency situations, it is unrealistic to assume that a patient or the family who arrives with the patient will be able to ask questions regarding the qualifications and exp[...]

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