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$16M Medical Malpractice Settlement For 16-Year-Old’s Cancer Death

April 19, 2025

In December 2024, a $16 million settlement was reportedly reached with a Pennsylvania hospital for the death of a 16-year-old who had gone to the emergency room on November 3, 2022 complaining that he had chest pain and had difficulty breathing. A chest x-ray showed a potential mass and the radiolog[...]

$1M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Undetected Rectal Cancer

December 15, 2023

A Massachusetts medical malpractice claim that medical negligence caused the plaintiff’s rectal cancer to go undetected until it spread to his lungs was settled in November 2022 for $1 million. The plaintiff had been treated for prostate cancer in 2002. As a result, he underwent prostate-speci[...]

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[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Claim For Wrongful Death Occurring During Pending Medical Malpractice Case Was Timely

October 18, 2022

Court Rules Claim For Wrongful Death During Pending Malpractice Case Timely: In her original petition filed on March 5, 2013, Juana Laguna alleged that appellees negligently treated a fracture in Regino Gonzalez, Jr.’s left femur, which he suffered spontaneously while he was engaged in routine[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Grants Summary Judgment For Defendant In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

September 20, 2022

In an Iowa medical malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose kidney cancer, the Supreme Court of Iowa stated in its opinion filed on April 22, 2022, “When the underlying cause of action is one for failure to disclose a medical condition, as here, a defendant’s continued failure to d[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Ontario Court Finds Defendant Pathologist Breached The Standard Of Care

July 20, 2022

Ontario Court Finds Defendant Pathologist Breached The Standard Of Care: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice stated in its April 22, 2022 opinion: “On October 31, 2015, Mary Fleury underwent a laparoscopy at the West Parry Sound Health Centre for a suspected small bowel obstruction. During t[...]

$9.9M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Colon Cancer Leading To Death

June 9, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiff in a trial that concluded in May 2022 in a case of medical negligence filed against a primary care practice that allegedly failed to diagnose a patient’s colon cancer over a period of five years despite continuing compl[...]

Wisconsin Appellate Court Revives Inmate’s Medical Malpractice Case

November 7, 2021

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held in its opinion dated September 29, 2021: “Brandon Winzer appeals from a circuit court order dismissing his medical malpractice claim against Dr. Hartmann and Mercy Medical Center (Mercy) as time-barred under the applicable statute of limitations, WIS. STAT. [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancer Misdiagnosis Led To Unnecessary Prostate Removal Surgery

October 16, 2021

A Pennsylvania man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a mix-up in the preparation and reading of slides from his prostate biopsy caused him to be misdiagnosed as having cancer. He alleges that the biopsy tissue from another patient was wrongfully identified as his and therefore he[...]

New York Appellate Court Discusses Continuous Treatment Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

November 17, 2020

In its October 14, 2020 decision, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that the trial court had improperly granted dismissal of the entire New York medical malpractice complaint, stating “we agree with the Supreme Court’s determ[...]

$12.25M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pathologist’s Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Due To Slide Mix Up

April 19, 2019

Earlier in April 2019, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $12.25 million for the plaintiffs in an Iowa medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a pathologist mixed up the slides of tissue samples taken from the plaintiff and from a man who had prostate cancer[...]

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[...]

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