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Massachusetts Appellate Court Discusses Use Of Internet Web Pages In Medical Malpractice Case

September 18, 2015

In its decision filed on September 10, 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided whether certain materials obtained from the Internet qualify as published treatises, periodicals, or the like within the meaning of the “learned treatise” exception to the hearsay rule in a Ma[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds JNOV For Medical Malpractice Defendant

September 14, 2015

In its decision filed on September 3, 2015, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) upheld the trial court’s granting judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in favor of one of the medical malpractice defendants following a mistrial after the Mississip[...]

$3.5M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Heart Attack

August 23, 2015

On August 14, 2015, after a three-week trial and two hours of jury deliberations, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3.5 million, for which two of the defendant physicians are responsible for $1.75 million (the jury also awarded $1.7[...]

Arkansas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed After Arrestee’s Death

July 15, 2015

On July 8, 2015, a medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in Arkansas against a hospital emergency room physician, alleging that the physician’s medical negligence led to the drug overdose death of an Arkansas man who had been brought to the emergency room for evaluation after being arrested fo[...]

$6.6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Heroin Addict Paralyzed By Hospital Negligence

March 21, 2015

On March 11, 2015, after five days of trial and two days of jury deliberations, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury found a local hospital responsible for a man’s permanent paralysis following his discharge from its Emergency Department in 2010. The man was a heroin addict when he went to[...]

$2.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome

March 13, 2015

On March 10, 2015, in a conservative Maryland jurisdiction (Anne Arundel County, where Maryland’s capital, Annapolis, is located), a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,535,869 in favor of the now 23-year-old female plaintiff. The plaintiff was 19 years [...]

Defendant Physician’s Medical License Problems Held Irrelevant In Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case

December 25, 2014

In its decision issued on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) held that the defendant physician’s medical license problems were not admissible in the case it was deciding because evidence of collateral misconduct to show a person’s pro[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Woman’s Death In ER

December 24, 2014

In October 2014, the family of a woman who died after being mistreated for a heart attack in a hospital emergency room in Louisiana filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the physician who had treated the woman in the emergency room and the hospital where the alleged medical negligence took p[...]

Medical Malpractice Reforms Protecting ED Physicians Have Had Little Effect On The Practice Of Medicine

October 25, 2014

In a research study published on October 16, 2014 in The New England Journal of Medicine, it was reported that in three U.S. states that had passed medical malpractice reform legislation to require a greater showing of medical negligence in order for patients injured by emergency room physicians [...]

Medical Malpractice Reforms Have Gone Too Far – A Recent Wisconsin Case

October 8, 2014

A Wisconsin trial judge deciding post-trial motions filed by the parties in a Wisconsin medical malpractice case issued his October 3, 2014 Decision and Order finding that Wisconsin’s cap on noneconomic damages in the amount of $750,000 is unconstitutional as it applies to this case, under [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case

September 23, 2014

In its decision dated September 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) reinstated a Nevada medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court because the plaintiff’s expert affidavit attached to her medical malpractice complai[...]

Alabama Hospital Sued Twice Last Week For Medical Malpractice

July 24, 2014

An Alabama hospital had a bad week last week: it was named as a medical malpractice defendant in two separate cases filed on behalf of two men who had been shot and allegedly suffered injuries as a result of medical negligence at the hospital. One of the men died from his wounds (his family alleges [...]

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