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Colorado Supreme Court Holds Prefiling Interest Accruing On Economic Damages Falls Within Good Cause Exception To $1M Cap In Medical Malpractice Case

October 25, 2025

Colorado’s Heath Care Availability Act (“HCAA”) generally imposes a $1 million limit on medical malpractice damages awards. § 13-64-302, C.R.S. (2024). But the HCAA also provides an exception: in cases where good cause is shown, courts may find that applying the cap would be unfai[...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

Denver Hospital Settles 24-Year-Old’s Medical Malpractice Death Case For The Maximum: $387,000

May 30, 2022

It was recently announced that Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado (collectively, “Denver Health”) settled a family’s Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death case arising from the unnecessary death of a 24-year-old snowboarder for $387,000, which was the[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Verdict From $4.5M To $1.25M

July 12, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated May 28, 2020: “we conclude that the trial court erred in refusing to consider the plaintiffs’ constitutional issue. But because we also conclude that the statutory cap on noneco[...]

Federal Judge Awards Maximum Allowable Damages In West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case

November 30, 2016

On November 15, 2016, a federal judge ruled in favor of a woman and her husband in a federal medical malpractice case, finding that the woman’s physician, who was a federal employee, acted with reckless disregard to a risk of harm to the woman, thereby leading the judge to award the plaintiffs[...]

$17M Nebraska Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 9, 2015

Last week, a federal medical malpractice jury in Nebraska returned its verdict in the amount of $17 million for the serious and permanent injuries suffered by a baby during her birth in Nebraska on November 2, 2012. The now 2-year-old girl suffered a catastrophic brain injury during labor and deli[...]

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