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$29 Million Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Aortic Aneurysm

May 12, 2023

$29 Million Verdict For Missed Aortic Aneurysm: Following a two-week trial in the Essex Superior Court in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a 48-year-old man and his two daughters, ages 12 and 18 at the time of his death, $29 million for the m[...]

$13.5M Idaho Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Stroke In Hospital ER

April 2, 2023

$13.5M Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Stroke: Earlier this year, an Ada County, Idaho medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $13.5 million (the second largest Idaho medical malpractice jury verdict) against Emergency Medicine of Idaho LLC and one of its physicians for the allege[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For ER Physician In 7-Year-Old’s Asthma Death

April 4, 2021

The Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth (“Texas Appellate Court”) affirmed in its January 14, 2021 opinion that the defendant emergency room physician was entitled to summary judgment in a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death case involving a 7-year-old [...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Emergency Medicine Medical Malpractice Case Because Plaintiff’s Expert Unqualified

May 21, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its decision dated March 4, 2020 that the New York medical malpractice defendants were entitled to summary judgment because the plaintiff’s medical expert,[...]

Emergency Medicine Malpractice Laws In The United States – Protecting Physicians But Harming Patients

November 5, 2019

The American Medical Association states on its website, “A physician who specializes in Emergency Medicine focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in[...]

Florida Emergency Room Physician Who Prevailed In Medical Malpractice Case Sues The Plaintiff’s Lawyer

May 22, 2019

A Florida emergency room physician who ultimately prevailed in a Florida medical malpractice case filed against him by the surviving husband of a woman he treated in a hospital emergency room in 2007 who died 12 hours after being discharged from the ER is suing the plaintiff’s Florida medical [...]

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

December 6, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion delivered on November 16, 2018 that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s report sufficiently identified the applicable standard of care and the link between the defendant hospital’s nur[...]

$1.3M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Missed Heart Attack In 23-Year-Old

December 2, 2018

On November 20, 2018, after a ten-day trial, a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death jury found an emergency room physician and his employer liable for the death of a 23-year-old patient who had gone to the emergency room complaining of chest pain. Despite an abnormal EKG and other symptoms of[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Settles Medical Malpractice Case Involving Death of 11-Month-Old, For $6.5M

April 25, 2018

On April 13, 2018, a Pennsylvania judge signed off on a $6.5 million medical malpractice settlement involving the death on an 11-month-old child whose serious intestinal condition went undiagnosed and untreated by a Pennsylvania hospital until it was too late to save his life. The toddler’s pa[...]

Texas Freestanding ER Sued For Medical Malpractice For Death Of 4-Year-Old

December 4, 2017

On November 8, 2017, the distraught parents of a four-year-old child who died shortly after being seen in a Texas freestanding emergency room filed a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the for-profit corporate owner of the facility, alleging that the medical misdiagnosis of the[...]

$15M Arizona Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrong Medication Leading To Vegetative State

November 19, 2017

In October 2017, an Arizona medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million in favor of a 42-year-old woman who was allegedly given inappropriate medication in the defendant hospital emergency room that led to her suffering a heart attack later that night at home during wh[...]

$3.5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman’s Death Due To Undiagnosed Heart Condition

August 23, 2017

On February 6, 2012, a 41-year-old woman went to the defendant hospital’s emergency room, complaining of severe pain in her left shoulder that radiated down her left arm. She was admitted to the hospital and a cardiac evaluation was ordered due to her symptoms. As part of the cardiac evaluatio[...]

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