The September 11, 2020 published opinion of the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed the jury’s award of $9,250,000 in noneconomic damages for a medical battery claim where a… Read More
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California Appellate Court Reduces Punitive Damages Award From $70M To $19.6M In Malfunctioning Surgical Stapler Case
The Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division Five (“California Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on June 13, 2018, reduced the punitive damages award by a California jury from $70 million to $19.7 million… Read More
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California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancerous Pancreas Implanted Into Patient
A California medical malpractice lawsuit filed on December 7, 2017 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Sacramento alleges that the defendants transplanted into the plaintiff a pancreas and kidney from a… Read More
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California Urologist Faces Multiple Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
For the second time this year, a Salinas, California urologist has been sued by a former patient for medical malpractice, alleging that the urologist had the patient undergo five unsuccessful lithotripsies for kidney stones from September 2008 to March 2012… Read More
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Kaiser Sued Over Access To Mental Health Benefits
On October 3, 2013, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (“Kaiser”) in California by three plaintiffs who allege on their own behalf and on behalf of potentially thousands of other patients that Kaiser is failing… Read More
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Is There New Hope For California Medical Malpractice Victims?
California has one of the most unfair, draconian caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that has not changed in nearly 40 years (the price of gasoline in California in 1975 was 58.7 cents per gallon (source) when the California Medical Injury… Read More
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$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict
On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at… Read More
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Dog X-Ray Is Downfall Of California Pill Mill Doctor
On July 12, 2012, a California doctor was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill (a medical clinic where prescription medications are readily and easily prescribed, available, and/or dispensed with little or no proper legitimate medical need). The doctor had been… Read More
