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Alabama Governor Signs Into Law Health Care Provider Coronavirus Immunity Bill

February 14, 2021

On February 12, 2021, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law Alabama Senate Bill 30, adding Alabama to the growing number of states that have enacted civil immunity laws benefiting health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. In signing into law the health care provider coronavirus imm[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Denies Discovery Regarding Prior Suicides Committed By Jumping From Hospital’s Parking Garage

February 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of Alabama has denied a husband’s request for discovery regarding prior suicides committed by patients jumping from the defendant hospital’s parking garage in the husband’s Alabama medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital for his wife’[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Refuses To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Death Case

October 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 5, 2018 that the daughter of a resident of the defendant nursing home did not have the authority to bind her father to the arbitration agreement contained in the nursing home admission documents, [...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Birth Injury Case

July 17, 2015

On June 19, 2015, after a two-week trial and three and a half hours of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The case involved the birth injuries suffered by a now 11-year-old boy who sustained a brain injury due to alleged medical neglig[...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Permanent Injuries From NECC’s Contaminated Steroid

June 8, 2013

As part of the continuing fallout from allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Company (“NECC”), an Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against NECC and a local Alabama hospital in which she claims that she received contaminated steroid inje[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reinstates $3.2 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 22, 2013

It its decision issued on May 17, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) reinstated a $3.2 million verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff that the Alabama Supreme Court had earlier vacated in its decision dated January 14, 2011 that held that the m[...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Medical Study Put Premature Infants At Risk

May 8, 2013

On April 18, 2013, the parents of five Alabama children filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in which they allege that a study conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at other institutions that sought to determine the best level[...]

Alabama $3 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Widow of 56-Year-Old Man

April 15, 2013

After seventeen days of trial and about one hour of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict on April 9, 2013 in the amount of $3 million in favor of the widow of a 56-year-old man who died because his surgeon repeatedly delayed performing surgery to remove his infe[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Decision Rejects Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

March 27, 2013

On March 22, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) issued its decision in a case contesting whether a nursing home resident’s representative (one of the daughters of the nursing home resident) bound her father’s nursing home malpractice claim to be ar[...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Man Who Bled To Death After Surgery

December 23, 2011

A 37-year-old Alabama man had surgery in a hospital for a duodenal ulcer. After the surgery, the man required multiple blood transfusions. Despite having a low blood count after the surgery, the man was discharged to home following the surgery, where he died a few days later from exsanguination in a[...]

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