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$9.5M Missouri Dental Malpractice Verdict For 20 Patients

December 27, 2025

Twenty former patients of Kansas City dentist Brian Jenkins filed dental malpractice lawsuits against him and his dental practice, Brian H. Jenkins DDS, LLC d/b/a Wright Dentures and Implants in Independence, Kansas. A judge awarded the plaintiffs $.9.5 million in damages ($473,445 for each plaintif[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Upholds $11.5M Dental Malpractice Verdict

September 10, 2025

Mary Heffelfinger is a 68 year-old woman who resides in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Linda Shen, DDS is licensed to practice dentistry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is the sole owner of her professional corporation, Shen Smiles, PC (“Shen Smiles”) in Drums, Pennsylvania. Heffelfinger [...]

$5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Dental Procedure

July 11, 2025

On May 2, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,021,000 after six hours of deliberations following a five-day trial for the death of a 30-year-old woman who collapsed and died from multiple pulmonary emboli in her lungs as her husband was a[...]

$11 Million Dental Malpractice Verdict In Pennsylvania

January 19, 2025

On February 22, 2024, a Lancaster Pennsylvania dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in the total amount of $11 million against the defendant dentist who allegedly failed to investigate a sore on a patient’s tongue that was cancerous. The dental malpractice jury’s award included $[...]

Can I Sue A Dentist For Malpractice?

October 3, 2024

Dentists, like other health care professionals, are required to abide by the standard of care that applies to them, and if they deviate from the dental standard of care under the circumstances and there is harm caused by the deviation, they are liable for the injuries they cause. For example, in Mar[...]

$95M Texas Dental Malpractice Verdict For 4-Year-Old’s Brain Damage From Sedation

September 30, 2022

$95M Verdict For 4-Year-Old’s Brain Damage From Sedation: On January 7, 2016 at Diamond Dental, 4-year-old Nevaeh Hall was sedated by a dentist in preparation for a for a baby root canal and to have a crown placed on one of her teeth. She was restrained on a papoose board (a temporary medical [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Dental Malpractice Jury’s Damages Award But Remands On Liability And Proximate Cause

November 24, 2021

In its October 15, 2021 decision, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in a dental malpractrice case: “defendants have not challenged the amount of the jury award. The primary thrust of their contentions is that the trial court mad[...]

$350,000 Dental Malpractice Verdict In Florida

October 28, 2018

Earlier this month, a Florida dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $350,418.90. The plaintiff, a teacher and single mother, alleged that the defendant dentist committed dental malpractice with regard to a three-tooth bridge procedure that the defend[...]

$300K Dental Malpractice Verdict Against Maine Dentist

November 21, 2017

On October 16, 2017, a Maine dental malpractice jury found in favor of a dental patient who suffered a serious infection requiring substantial medical treatment after the defendant dentist extracted two of his teeth in late December 2011. Three days after the extractions, on January 3, 2011, the pla[...]

$4.5M Connecticut Dental Malpractice Verdict For Botched Root Canal

June 14, 2015

A Connecticut dental malpractice jury has awarded $4.5 million to a 42-year-old woman who had a root canal procedure performed on her by the defendant dentist on March 15, 2011 that left her with pain at all times: pain when she is eating, pain while she is sleeping, and pain when she is doing noth[...]

$430,000 New York Dental Malpractice Verdict Set Aside On Appeal

May 19, 2015

By its decision rendered on May 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) reversed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $430,000 in favor of a dental patient in a New York dental malpractice case, finding tha[...]

New Jersey $2.3M Dental Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal

April 18, 2015

By its unpublished decision dated March 27, 2015, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a $2,300,035.00 verdict in a New Jersey dental malpractice case, determining that the verdict was not excessive in light of the substantial permanent injuries sustained and the medical exp[...]

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