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$12M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict In Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Case

August 19, 2018

On July 19, 2018, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $12 million in a medical malpractice case against a radiologist and two family practice physicians for their alleged medical negligence in failing to diagnose a patient[...]

$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[...]

$6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failing To Order MRIs In Undiagnosed Liver Cancer Case

April 1, 2018

A Philadelphia medical malpractice jury took two-and-a-half hours after a six-day trial that ended on March 6, 2018 to award the estate of a 65-year-old man who died of late-diagnosed liver cancer and his surviving wife the total sum of $6 million. The Philadelphia medical malpractice jury allocated[...]

$3M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Pulmonologist For Failure To Diagnose Lung Cancer

February 9, 2018

On January 22, 2018, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant pulmonologist in an Alabama medical malpractice case that alleged that the defendant negligently failed to diagnose a man’s lung cancer, which killed him after it was diagnosed too late. The Ala[...]

$596K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer

October 11, 2017

On October 5, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $596,000 ($176,000 in economic damages and $420,000 in noneconomic damages) against a man’s primary care physician for the physician’s role in the negligent failure to diagnose the 55-year-old [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Upholds $1.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Cancer Misdiagnosed As Benign Meningioma

June 7, 2017

The Appellate Court of Illinois Third District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed in its April 24, 2017 opinion, an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $1,727,409.50 to the wife and the estate of a man who died because the defendant neuropathologist who read the biopsy slide[...]

$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 [...]

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