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Kansas Supreme Court Overturns Statutory Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Personal Injury Cases

June 15, 2019

In it opinion dated June 14, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) overturned Kansas’ statutory cap on noneconomic damages in personal injury cases, holding: “Section 5 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights declares, “The right of t[...]

Kansas Nursing Home Inspections Woefully Inadequate

May 12, 2018

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (“Department”) is responsible for inspecting nursing homes in Kansas in order to insure compliance with state and federal regulations. The Department is also responsible for investigating Kansas nursing home complaints and for inspe[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Hospital For Pancreatic Cancer Misdiagnosis, Concealment From Patient

August 21, 2017

On August 1, 2017, a woman who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by a hospital pathologist and underwent unnecessary surgery to remove multiple organs due to the misdiagnosis that was concealed from her filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, the former chair of the ho[...]

Kansas Nursing Home Sued For Resident’s Choking Death

March 18, 2016

During late February 2016, the family of a Kansas nursing home resident who choked to death after being allowed to snack on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, despite being on a restricted diet (pureed foods and thickened liquids only), filed a federal lawsuit against the nursing home and others, f[...]

Internal Audits Question Cancer Doctor’s Competency

September 20, 2014

A cancer doctor who worked from 1993 until 2011 at a Kansas medical practice owned by approximately seventy physicians, and now works at another physician-owned cancer center in Wichita, Kansas, was the subject of internal audits beginning in 2010 that addressed whether the oncologist treated [...]

$2.88M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide After Pain Management Injections

April 11, 2014

A 40-year-old physically active Kansas man had chronic lower back pain for which he sought steroid injections intended to alleviate his pain. He first had epidural steroid injections into his back in May 2008 that were performed at a pain management clinic run by Board-certified anesthesiologists. W[...]

Kansas Neurosurgeon Consents To Two-Year License Suspension

April 2, 2014

Pursuant to a Consent Order dated February 14, 2014, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, which is the sole and exclusive administrative agency in the State of Kansas authorized to regulate the practice of the healing arts (“Board”), suspended the Kansas medical license of a neuros[...]

Kansas Senate Distrusts Its Citizens To Decide Medical Malpractice Cases

February 23, 2014

On February 19, 2014, the Kansas Senate passed Senate Bill 119 that would require that Kansas medical malpractice claims be initially filed with a three-member panel that would determine if the defendant(s) breached the applicable standard of care in rendering (or failing to render) medical care [...]

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