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Kentucky Appellate Court Addresses Medical Malpractice Empty-Chair Defense, Reverses Defense Verdict

August 16, 2017

The so-called empty-chair defense is a trial tactic in a multiparty case whereby one defendant attempts to put all the fault on a defendant who plea-bargained or settled before trial or on a person who was neither charged nor named as a party. In its published opinion rendered on July 28, 2017, th[...]

Oregon Supreme Court Recognizes Loss Of Chance Of Recovery Claim In Medical Malpractice Cases

May 13, 2017

In its opinion filed on May 11, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Oregon Supreme Court”) held, as a matter of first impression, that a medical negligence claim based on a loss-of-chance theory of injury in the circumstances presented is cognizable under Oregon common law ([...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

April 30, 2017

In its opinion delivered on March 29, 2017, the Arkansas Court of Appeals “(Appellate Court”) ruled that there was no error committed by the trial judge during a medical malpractice jury trial, and therefore affirmed the jury’s defense verdict. The Arkansas medical malpractice [...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Doctors Failed To Diagnose Pill Lodged In Patient’s Throat, Leading to Death

April 29, 2017

A recently filed New Hampshire medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the multiple defendant doctors failed to diagnose that an 80-year-old woman had a pill lodged in her throat despite numerous visits to her medical providers, allowing the pill to burn a hole into her pulmonary artery, causing[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Case Alleges ER Misdiagnosis Led To Quadriplegia

January 29, 2017

A Missouri medical malpractice case has been filed on behalf of a man and his wife, alleging that the defendant hospital and defendant physician negligently failed to properly diagnose the man when he was treated in the defendant hospital’s emergency room, which resulted in him developing perm[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Death Of 10-Year-Old

January 10, 2017

On December 22, 2016, the parents of a Colorado ten-year-old boy who died on Christmas Eve in 2014, forty minutes after being sent home from the defendant Colorado hospital’s emergency room, filed their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, a physician at th[...]

$20M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Lawyer’s Misdiagnosed Brain Aneurysm

November 28, 2016

On November 21, 2016, an Illinois judge approved a $20 million medical malpractice settlement reached during an Illinois medical malpractice trial that began on October 28, 2016, for the serious brain injury suffered by a 50-year-old attorney in 2012 after he suffered a stroke two days after being e[...]

$1.5M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Emergency Room Negligence Leading to Death

October 29, 2016

On October 20, 2016, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury rendered a verdict in the amount of $1,500,000 in favor of the estate of a 41-year-old man whom the jury found to have been the victim of emergency room malpractice that led to his untimely death. The defendant was the for-profit corpora[...]

$3.7M Florida Medical Malpractice Arbitration Award For Pregnant Woman’s Death

August 26, 2016

On August 2, 2016, a Florida medical malpractice arbitration panel found that the defendant hospital’s medical negligence caused the death of a pregnant woman who had gone to its emergency room with breathing problems. The medical malpractice arbitration panel awarded the woman’s child, [...]

New York Hospital Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Patient Needlessly Lost His Leg

July 16, 2016

A New York medical negligence lawsuit that was recently filed in the federal court in Brooklyn against a local hospital alleges that a series of unnecessary and unreasonable delays in treating a man who arrived in the emergency department after having been struck by a car and suffering a serious leg[...]

$4.58M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Emergency Room Physician

June 15, 2016

In mid-May 2016, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after fifteen days of trial, finding that the defendant emergency room physician negligently misdiagnosed a 33-year-old married nurse, who was the mother to three minor children, as suffering from a migr[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Missed Hernia Led To Man’s Death

May 27, 2016

A medical malpractice case filed against a Pennsylvania hospital and others alleges that the negligent failure of at least five doctors to properly assess the medical condition of a man who came to the hospital’s emergency room complaining of constipation and abdominal pain led to his death ni[...]

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