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$25M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 15-Year-Old From Undiagnosed Leukemia

December 18, 2025

On October 30, 2025, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded $15 million to the mother of a 15-year-old who died due to the failure of a physician to diagnose her leukemia. The teenager began feeling sick on July 14, 2021 and was brought to a doctor. The initial diagnosis was pneumonia. Later, the [...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Misdiagnosed Nasopharyngeal Cancer

November 29, 2025

In July 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case involving the alleged failure of a neuroradiologist to diagnose the plaintiff’s nasopharyngeal cancer from an MRI in 2022, which delay allegedly led to the cancer proceeding from Stage Two (curable) to Stage Four (incurable) when the cancer was[...]

$7M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Rectal Cancer Affirmed

February 23, 2025

In July 2019, Steven Delavern, then 31-years-old, went to Health Services, a family practice, with complaints of rectalpain and bleeding along with other bowel issues. He was seen by PA Karla Lynn Wilson, a physicians’ assistant who was supervised by Dr. Nicole Carroll. PA Wilson diagnosed Mr. Del[...]

Florida Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer Can’t Find A Lawyer To Represent Her

July 9, 2023

Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer: 59-year-old Judy Karpinski underwent a biopsy in September 2021 of two small bumps on her shoulder and her back at Bay Dermatology in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The tissue samples from the biopsy were then sent to UF Health for evaluation. Two days before Christmas, Kar[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Anal Cancer Medical Malpractice Defendants Not Entitled To Summary Judgment

May 17, 2021

The New York Appellate Division, Third Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated March 25, 2021 in a New York medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that the defendant primary care physician and the defendant dermatologist were negligent in failing to refer the dece[...]

New York Appellate Court Applies Continuous Treatment Doctrine In Overturning Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

February 29, 2020

The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Decision and Order dated February 11, 2020, “On this record, an issue of fact exists as to the last date on which defendant Dr. Woo treated the decedent, and thus, as to when t[...]

$9.6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Cervical Cancer In Nine-Year-old

December 29, 2019

A Berks County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $9.6 million to a now 15-year-old girl whose cervical cancer was not timely diagnosed. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial lasted eight days before the jury deliberated for two days prior to rendering its verdict against the defend[...]

$8.5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Bladder Tumors On CT Scan

September 7, 2019

On August 21, 2019, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $8.5 million for the injuries they suffered as a result of the defendant doctors’ failure to report to the man an incidental finding on a CT scan that showed a possible tumor in his bladder. As a result, the[...]

U.S. Cancer Statistics: U.S. Cancer Deaths Dropped By 27% Between 1991 and 2016

January 11, 2019

An article appearing on January 8, 2019 in the medical journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians reported that the overall cancer death rate in the United States dropped continuously from 1991 to 2016 by a total of 27%, translating into approximately 2,629,200 fewer cancer deaths than would have b[...]

New Guidelines For Management Of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules Detected On CT Images

November 25, 2018

It is not uncommon for medicalmalpracticelawyers.com to receive inquiries from potential medical malpractice victims who question whether an incidental lung nodule finding on a chest CT that was not subsequently clinically investigated caused a delay in diagnose of a serious treatable medical condit[...]

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[...]

California Appellate Court Upholds Plaintiff’s Verdict In Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

March 2, 2015

In its decision rendered on January 29, 2015, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, District One, State of California, upheld a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs in a case involving the misdiagnosis of breast cancer in a woman who had an extensive family history of b[...]

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