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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,[...]

Second Florida Appellate Court Holds Caps On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Unconstitutional

November 23, 2016

In its opinion filed on October 26, 2016, the District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Appellate Court”) agreed with the 2015 opinion of the District Court of Appeal of Florida Fourth District that held that the section 766.118 caps on noneconomic damages are unconstitutiona[...]

$19.7M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Breathing Tube Death

September 5, 2016

On August 31, 2016, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $19.7 million against a Texas physician and the physician’s employer for the catastrophic injuries and death suffered by a former surgical technician as a result of medical negl[...]

Wyoming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Death Shortly After Discharge From Hospital

August 27, 2016

On August 19, 2016, a Wyoming medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of all of the defendants after about two hours of deliberations, finding that the September 2011 death of a 16-year-old paralyzed boy within six hours after being discharged from the defendant hospital was not due[...]

Kentucky Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Resident’s Death After Elopement

July 4, 2016

A Kentucky nursing home neglect case was filed on May 31, 2016 by the executor of the estate of a 95-year-old resident of the defendant nursing home who eloped from the nursing home on January 16, 2016, when the temperature outside had reached 6 degrees above zero, and froze to death on the front la[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Death Following AICD Lead Wire Removal Procedure

July 3, 2016

The husband of a woman who died following alleged medical negligence that occurred during a procedure on June 4, 2014 to remove a lead wire of her automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (“AICD”) filed a federal medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in West Virginia on June[...]

$1.2M Settlement For Paramedics’ Delay In Treating Elderly Woman Who Later Died

June 29, 2016

The City of Columbus, Ohio has agreed to pay $1.2 million to the family of a 76-old-woman who suffered a cardiac arrest and died after paramedics failed to treat her for nearly 25 minutes after she vomited and turned blue while at an MRI facility where she was getting an MRI of her hip. The woman [...]

Washington Mental Hospital Settles Patient On Patient Assault Case

June 23, 2016

A Washington State mental hospital has agreed to settle a Washington medical malpractice case filed against it that alleged that it was negligent when it failed to monitor and protect a patient admitted for observation that led to his suffering a severe assault that was committed by another patient.[...]

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