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$1.6M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed

April 8, 2023

$1.6M Malpractice Verdict Affirmed: The Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Virginia Appellate Court”) upheld a $1.6 million medical malpractice verdict against an emergency room physician in its Memorandum Opinion dated February 7, 2023. The plaintiff had suffered a traumatic brain injury (T[...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Brain Hemorrhage Medical Malpractice Case

June 4, 2022

The decedent, who was 36 years old, arrived at the emergency department of the defendant Lutheran Medical Center (“Lutheran”) at 1:12 a.m. on July 5, 2012, complaining of a migraine headache lasting for one day. She was examined by the defendant David N. Barabe and discharged later that [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Directed Verdict For Emergency Room Doctor

July 24, 2021

In its decision dated July 2, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) reversed the directed verdict entered in favor of the defendant emergency room doctor and his employer in a Georgia medical malpractice case where the plaintiff had to have her leg amputated a[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital And Nurse In Heart Attack Medical Malpractice Case

July 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on June 16, 2021: “there is evidence suggesting that the patient warranted care his treating physician did not provide to him. Experts testified that Moss should have been placed on the Level II t[...]

$13.5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Amputation Due To Misdiagnosis

June 11, 2021

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded an Army veteran and his wife $13.5 million on May 27, 2021 after a six-day trial, specifying that $10 million was being awarded for pain and suffering and an additional $3.5 million for future medical expenses and lost wages. The New York medical malpracti[...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Jury Misconduct Involving Premature Deliberations

April 26, 2020

The South Carolina Supreme Court, in its opinion dated March 11, 2020, stated, “it is clear Killian’s [a juror’s] conduct severely hampered the fundamental fairness of the trial, and that the circumstances here demonstrate prejudice. Carmichael [another juror] testified that Killia[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Involving Discrepancy Between ER Doc’s And Radiologist’s Interpretation Of X-Ray

April 18, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its February 21, 2020 Memorandum Decision, upheld an Indiana medical malpractice jury’s defense verdict in a case where the ER doctor interpreted a patient’s chest x-ray as normal and later a radiologist interpre[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Negligence Led To 19-Year-Old’s Death From Aortic Dissection

March 26, 2020

The parents of a 19-year-old who died from an aortic dissection filed a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore on March 20, 2020 against a hospital located in Western Maryland and a physician and a physician’s assistant working in the hospital’s[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Medical Malpractice Plaintiff To Add Federal EMTALA Claim

March 13, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on February 18, 2020 that the trial court properly denied the Indiana medical malpractice plaintiff’s request to amend his medical malpractice complaint to add an additional count alleging a feder[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Emergency Room PA After Patient Lost Her Leg

July 28, 2019

On Friday, July 12, 2019, after a five-day jury trial, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury deliberated for three and a half hours late into the night before determining that an emergency room physician assistant did not breach the standard of care when he attempted to surgically drain a drug ad[...]

$1.75M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Late Diagnosed Aortic Dissection

July 12, 2019

On June 25, 2019, after a one-week trial and seven hours of deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the total amount of $1.75 million ($500,000 in economic damages, $500,000 in noneconomic damages to the surviving wife, $250,000 in nonec[...]

$3.4M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

June 14, 2019

On May 31, 2019, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after three days of deliberations in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $3.38 million for the death of their 21-month-old daughter in September 2014 because her strangulated small intestine was not diagnosed in time [...]

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