California medical malpractice verdict Archives

$2.8M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Steroid Injection Into Dura

February 16, 2025

A 62-year-old woman with lumbar spine disease had a lumbar epidural steroid injection on October 1, 2021. During the procedure, the doctor negligently breached the woman’s dura, causing the steroids to enter into her subdural space. As a result, she suffered extreme headaches, debilitating low[...]

$28.7M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failed Intubation Leading To Permanent Brain Injury

April 23, 2024

During early February 2024, a Los Angeles medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after a two-week trial in the amount of $28,724,350.29 for the 56-year-old plaintiff. The jury found that the man became paralyzed and suffered permanent brain injury requiring him to have 24-hour nursi[...]

$5.5M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Cancer By Pathologist

March 21, 2023

$5.5M Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis: On March 17, 2023, a California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,461,993 in favor of the 50-year-old emergency room nurse and mother of a severely disabled daughter, who alleged that the defendant pathologist negligently failed [...]

$14.42 Million Verdict Against Health Net For Patient’s Opioid Addiction

December 17, 2022

$14.42 Million Verdict Against Health Net For Patient’s Opioid Addiction: On December 12, 2022, a California jury returned its verdict in favor of plaintiff Elaine Courtney in the amount of $14.42 million ($6.92 million in compensatory damages and an additional $7.5 million in punitive damages[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms $9.25M Noneconomic Damages Award Where Surgeon Removed Portion Of Man’s Penis Without Consent

October 14, 2020

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 surgeon removed a portion [...]

$68M California Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiac Surgeon Who Left Before Surgery Completed

April 7, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a cardiac surgeon in the amount of $12,390,000 in punitive damages on March 19, 2018, in addition to the $55,600,000 in compensatory damages that the California medical malpractice jury awarded to the plaintiff on March 1, 2018, due [...]

$13.16M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Damage Suffered During Endoscopy

February 20, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $13.16 million late last week in favor of a young woman who suffered a brain injury during an endoscopy procedure due to her blood pressure being dangerously low during the procedure. The $5 million that the California jury [...]

$8.4M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Report Child Abuse

November 8, 2017

A California medical malpractice jury awarded a now 6-year-old boy $8.4 million on October 18, 2017, for the severe physical and emotional injuries he suffered as a result of alleged child abuse by family members when he was seven-weeks-old that was not timely reported to the proper authorities, lea[...]

California Appellate Court Discusses Loss Of Earning Capacity Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

October 8, 2016

In its opinion filed on September 29, 2016, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Second Division (“Appellate Court”) held in a California medical malpractice case involving negligently performed gallbladder surgery that the jury must fix a plaintiff’[...]

California College Athlete Awarded $1M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 10, 2015

On June 2, 2015, a now 25-year-old former college athlete in California received a verdict in the amount of $1,045,000 that included $285,000 for her past lost earnings, $730,000 for her future loss of earnings claim, and $30,000 for her past and future pain and suffering claim. After the Californi[...]

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