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Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Johns Hopkins Hospital For Wrongful Death Of Two-Year-Old

July 23, 2020

A Baltimore medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against The Johns Hopkins Hospital and others for the alleged wrongful death of a two-year-old girl. The parents’ lawsuit alleges that the defendants noted a cyst on one of their twins’ adrenal gland shortly after the [...]

Indiana Appellate Court Orders Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 4, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 9, 2018 that the trial court erred in failing to grant summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendants in a case where a surgeon removed a lobe of the plaintiff’s lung after an i[...]

$4.2M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Kidney Cancer

April 17, 2018

A Massachusetts medical malpractice jury recently returned its verdict in the amount of $4.2 million against the defendant primary care physician, finding that the defendant had breached the standard of care in mistreating a then 49-year-old man who had blood in his urine during an initial examinati[...]

New York’s “Lavern’s Law” Signed Into Law

February 2, 2018

On January 31, 2018, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law “Lavern’s Law,” which changes the medical malpractice law in New York so that the two-and-a-half year statute of limitations in New York medical malpractice cancer cases begins to run on the date of discovery of th[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Hospital For Pancreatic Cancer Misdiagnosis, Concealment From Patient

August 21, 2017

On August 1, 2017, a woman who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by a hospital pathologist and underwent unnecessary surgery to remove multiple organs due to the misdiagnosis that was concealed from her filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, the former chair of the ho[...]

Nebraska Supreme Court Rejects Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

July 27, 2017

The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected the loss-of-chance doctrine in a Nebraska medical malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that the failure to diagnose her breast cancer for one year increased the probability that she would suffer a recurrence of her breast cancer in the future. The Nebraska[...]

$21.6M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Deadly Delay In Breast Cancer Diagnosis

May 28, 2017

A 47-year-old former emergency room nurse recently obtained a $21.6 million Florida medical malpractice verdict against an ultrasound technician and the doctor who was interpreting the ultrasound for their alleged medical negligence in failing to diagnose her breast cancer. The judge in the Florida [...]

$460K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Leading To Death

May 22, 2017

A Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $460,000 in favor of the wife and six adult children of a 79-year-old man whose lung cancer was misdiagnosed for years until it was at stage IV. The man died two years after he was finally diagnosed, which was five years after a [...]

Kansas Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges Pathologist Misdiagnosed Cancer, Leading To Removal Of Healthy Organ

July 14, 2016

A physician employed at a Kansas hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit on July 1, 2016 against his hospital, alleging that the head of the hospital’s pathology department misread a tissue slide as showing cancer that resulted in the patient having a healthy essential organ surgically removed.[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Jury Finds Radiologist Negligent But His Negligence Did Not Contribute To Patient’s Death

July 8, 2016

On June 24, 2016, a New Mexico medical malpractice jury determined that the defendant radiologist breached the standard of care when he failed to recognize a cancerous tumor on a patient’s spine but the jury also determined that the radiologist’s negligence was not the cause of the 44-ye[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Smoker’s Lung Cancer Death

June 24, 2016

On June 8, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant doctor, after only a short period of jury deliberations following a medical malpractice trial that lasted a little over one week, finding that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant [...]

Quest Diagnostics Sued For Alleged Pathology Malpractice In Death Of Basketball Icon

March 1, 2016

On January 15, 2016, a Florida basketball icon died from advanced oral cancer that his widow alleges in her Florida medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed on February 15, 2016, was avoidable had a Quest Diagnostics pathologist properly read a biopsy slide in 2011 that an indepe[...]

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