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$5.5M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Cancer By Pathologist

March 21, 2023

$5.5M Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis: On March 17, 2023, a California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,461,993 in favor of the 50-year-old emergency room nurse and mother of a severely disabled daughter, who alleged that the defendant pathologist negligently failed [...]

California Supreme Court Rules $250K MICRA Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Physician Assistants

February 26, 2022

In its opinion dated February 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of California (“California Supreme Court”) held that California’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases “applies to a physician assistant who has a legally enforceable agency relationship wit[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defense In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case Where Man Died From Aortic Dissection Eight Hours After Discharge From ER

July 15, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Eight (“California Appellate Court”), in its June 1, 2020 published opinion, stated: “The trial court granted summary judgment to a hospital in a lawsuit brought by the family of an emergency room pat[...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Compel Arbitration Of Nursing Home Wrongful Death Claims

June 22, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated April 29, 2020, “although defendant [nursing home] moved to compel both plaintiffs to arbitrate all of their claims, includin[...]

California Appellate Court Holds Discovery Rule Applies To Medical Battery Claims

September 24, 2019

The Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division Five (“California Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 30, 2019 that the discovery rule applies to medical battery claims. Battery A battery is any intentional, unlawful and harmful contact [...]

$3.8M California Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman In Coma Since 2015

May 4, 2019

The family of a woman who was 33-years-old when she suffered cardiac arrest in the defendant hospital’s emergency room on February 25, 2015, and has been in a coma ever since, has agreed to settle the California medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed in October 2016, for $3.8 million. The [...]

California Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Failure To Perform Timely Cesarean Delivery Of Distressed Baby

June 14, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned a defense verdict on May 25, 2018 in a California birth injury medical malpractice case where the parents-to-be claimed that two doctors delivering their full-term baby failed to timely perform a Cesarean section delivery after the fetal heart monitorin[...]

$8.4M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Report Child Abuse

November 8, 2017

A California medical malpractice jury awarded a now 6-year-old boy $8.4 million on October 18, 2017, for the severe physical and emotional injuries he suffered as a result of alleged child abuse by family members when he was seven-weeks-old that was not timely reported to the proper authorities, lea[...]

$417M Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder Ovarian Cancer Verdict

August 22, 2017

A California jury returned its verdict on August 21, 2017 in the amount of $417 million in favor of a woman who had used Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder for decades and later developed ovarian cancer. The California jury’s verdict included $70 million in compensatory damages and an additiona[...]

21 California Doctors Charged In $40M “Snake Oil” Scheme

June 16, 2017

On April 20, 2017, the California Department of Insurance and the Orange County District Attorney announced that 21 California doctors, two pharmacists, and the two owners of medical billing and management companies have been charged with participating in a $40 million fraudulent medical billing a[...]

California Appellate Court Discusses Loss Of Earning Capacity Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

October 8, 2016

In its opinion filed on September 29, 2016, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Second Division (“Appellate Court”) held in a California medical malpractice case involving negligently performed gallbladder surgery that the jury must fix a plaintiff’[...]

Federal Judge Awards $9.8M For Birth Injury

November 10, 2015

After an eight-day medical malpractice trial before a U.S. District Court judge in Sacramento, California, the judge ruled on October 28, 2015 that an obstetrician who worked at a federally-funded health care facility was medically negligent when he waited too long before delivering the plaintiff&[...]

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