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$8M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrongful Death Involving Endoscopy

April 15, 2025

On April 11, 2025, a Baltimore City medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in an amount just over $8 million for the medical malpractice wrongful death of a 43-year-old public school teacher and father of three children, the youngest being four months old at the time of his death. The man was[...]

Dubai Prosecutors Seek Greater Jail Time For Foreign Doctors Convicted Of Medical Malpractice

July 1, 2020

Three foreign doctors in Dubai were reportedly convicted of medical malpractice and sentenced to one year in jail. Prosecutors in Dubai were not satisfied with the length of the jail sentence and are seeking additional jail time for the three doctors (a Dominican Republic national and two Syrians). [...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

February 26, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Memoradum and Opinion dated February 7, 2020: “we conclude that “‘[t]he conflicting opinions of the experts for plaintiff and defendant[s] with respect to .[...]

California Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Possible Improper Juror Exclusion

January 2, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Seven (“California Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion dated November 18, 2019: “The prohibition against the exercise of peremptory challenges to exclude prospective jurors on the basis of[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Remands Medical Malpractice Case For Consideration Of Ordinary Negligence Claims

November 6, 2019

By Order dated October 21, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) stated: “The district court concluded that the deficiency in Dolorfino’s [plaintiff’s] medical malpractice claim rendered her entire complaint void ab initio and dismissed[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Finds No Error In Refusing To Strike For Cause Five Medical Malpractice Jurors Who Preferred A Higher Standard Of Proof

August 30, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 7, 2019, “Based on the record before us, we find that the trial court did not act illogically or arbitrarily when it denied [the plaintiff’s] for-cause challenges to the five indiv[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Anesthesiologist In Delayed Rendering Of Anesthesia Claim

August 14, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum and Order entered on June 7, 2019: “We reject plaintiffs’ contention that the affidavit of their expert raised triable issues of fact suff[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Inadmissible Hearsay

March 25, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on March 12, 2019, reversed a Georgia medical malpractice defense verdict because the trial court had allowed inadmissible evidence “used to unfairly impeach [the plaintiff’s] expert witness as [...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Loses Appeal In Misnamed Defendant Case

August 20, 2018

The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on July 26, 2018 that because the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s original petition incorrectly named “Dr. Smith” as one of the anesthesiologists who treated t[...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Directed Verdict For Anesthesiologist

August 29, 2017

The Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) affirmed the directed verdict in favor of the defendant anesthesiologist in an opinion filed on August 8, 2017, determining that there was no competent, substantial evidence that the defendant anesthesiologis[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Decides Res Ipsa Loquitor May Apply To Negligent Surgical Positioning Claim

June 14, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its unreported opinion dated May 18, 2017 that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur may apply to a medical malpractice case where an unconscious patient is under the care of a surgical team. The Underlying Facts T[...]

Summary Judgment For Defendant In Maryland Medical Malpractice Case Upheld

December 20, 2015

In its unreported decision filed on December 3, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appeals Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, upheld the trial court granting summary judgment to the defendant anesthesiologist in a Maryland medical malpractice and wrong[...]

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