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$25.4 Million Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Anoxic Brain Injury At Birth

June 21, 2022

A medical malpractice jury in Missouri awarded $25.4 million against a Kansas City, Missouri doctor for her alleged medical negligence that led to a baby suffering permanent brain damage due to the lack of oxygen at birth. The jury’s verdict will be reduced to approximately $20.7 million due t[...]

Wrong-Side Surgery Defendant Claims PREP Act Immunity

June 1, 2021

A Missouri spine surgeon who was sued for medical malpractice in January 2021 has responded that he is immune from the medical malpractice lawsuit pursuant to the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) that was activated to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The defendant spine su[...]

Missouri Supreme Court En Banc Remands Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Claim Of Negligent Credentialing

April 28, 2020

In its opinion dated December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) held: “Without evidence showing a reasonable investigation into the surgeon’s background and qualifications would have revealed he was unqualified to perform laparoscopic cholecystect[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Says Frozen Pre-Embryos Are Property, Not Children

November 24, 2016

In its opinion filed on November 15, 2016, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District (“Appellate Court”) held that the parties’ pre-embryos that had been frozen as part of an in vitro fertilization process when they were married were marital property of a special character, an[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Denies Post-Judgment Interest On Medical Malpractice Verdicts

October 17, 2016

In its opinion filed on October 4, 2016, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) held that the plaintiff was not entitled to post-judgment interest on the Missouri medical malpractice verdict in his favor in the amount of $883,000 (the Missouri medical malpractice jury a[...]

$507K Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Needle Left In Patient During Trigger Point Injection

September 17, 2016

A Missouri medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $507,000 after a four-day trial. The defendants were a physician and her medical practice that operated a pain management clinic where the 62-year-old plaintiff sought pain management treatment due to[...]

$17.6M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Opioid Abuse

July 22, 2016

After a one-week medical malpractice jury trial in St. Louis, Missouri that ended in a verdict for the plaintiffs on June 28, 2016, the jury awarded the plaintiff husband $1.4 million and the plaintiff wife $1.2 million against a physician and his employer, finding that they were negligent in prescr[...]

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