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$1.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligently Performed Colonoscopy Requiring Splenectomy

July 31, 2026

On May 9, 2026, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.5 million for an improperly performed colonoscopy that required a splenectomy, leaving the patient immunocompromised for the rest of her life. On March 5, 2024, the plaintiff underwent a colonoscopy performe[...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Involving Perforation Of Colon During Colonoscopy

May 29, 2025

A Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant gastroenterologist in January 2025 in a case that alleged that the gastroenterologist negligently performed a polypectomy during a screening colonoscopy on November 13, 2019, causing a colon perforation. The basis of [...]

$850K Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death From Too Much Propofol During Colonoscopy

November 24, 2023

On May 5, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice claim was settled for $850,000 for the death of a woman who was given too much propofol over too short a period of time during a colonoscopy procedure, resulting in her death. The woman had been on dialysis for more than two years. She also had diabetes[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Portion Of Trial Court’s Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Pain And Suffering Award

August 5, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) decided on June 24, 2020, in a New York medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant perforated a part of her small intestine as he perform[...]

$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 [...]

$1.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Four Holes Made In Patient’s Intestine

February 12, 2013

On January 25, 2013, a New York medical malpractice jury awarded $1.5 million to a patient against his former gastroenterologist and his former laparoscopic surgeon after almost eight weeks of trial, finding that the gastroenterologist was 60% responsible and that the laparoscopic surgeon was [...]

Florida $1.25 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hepatitis C Contracted During Colonoscopy

November 26, 2012

A 70-year-old Florida Air Force veteran had a colonoscopy in 2007 at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center (“V.A. Medical Center”). He had been tested for hepatitis C in 2006 that was reported as negative. But in 2009, after receiving a letter from the V.A. stating that he [...]

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