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$6.5 Million Lyme Disease Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 17, 2023

Earlier this year, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a local hospital and in favor of a 25-year-old man whose Lyme disease was not timely diagnosed or treated, leading to Lyme carditis and to his death eight days after his Lyme disease was finally diagnosed. The man had g[...]

Maine Supreme Judicial Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hand Surgeon

March 23, 2019

In its decision filed on March 12, 2019, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a Maine medical malpractice jury’s award of $2 million to a man who had surgery on his right wrist that the jury found to have been negligently performed and the defendant surgeon negligently failed to timely di[...]

$2M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Hand Surgery

November 29, 2017

On October 27, 2017, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded $2 million to the plaintiff in his medical malpractice lawsuit against his hand surgeon and the hospital where he had his hand surgery. The plaintiff’s Maine medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that the defendant hand surgeon had br[...]

$300K Dental Malpractice Verdict Against Maine Dentist

November 21, 2017

On October 16, 2017, a Maine dental malpractice jury found in favor of a dental patient who suffered a serious infection requiring substantial medical treatment after the defendant dentist extracted two of his teeth in late December 2011. Three days after the extractions, on January 3, 2011, the pla[...]

Connecticut Physician Denied Maine Medical License Due To Alleged Sexual Misconduct With Patients

June 12, 2015

A Connecticut physician who had applied for a permanent Maine medical license has been denied his request due to four claims of alleged sexual misconduct with former patients in Maine who have filed lawsuits against the physician. The physician, who is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabil[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Insurer Announces Large Dividend And Rate Reduction

August 12, 2014

Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (“Medical Mutual”), the dominant medical malpractice insurance company in Maine that insures approximately 3,000 Maine physicians as well as more than 20 Maine hospitals (about 63% of the medical malpractice insurance market in Maine), announced[...]

Maine Psychiatric Hospital Sued By Pregnant Worker Stabbed By Patient

May 24, 2014

A 27-year-old female Maine mental health worker filed a federal lawsuit on May 19, 2014 for the injuries she suffered on March 16, 2013 when she was repeatedly stabbed by a patient who was known to the facility to be violent, alleging that her employer failed to protect her. The plaintiff was 18 wee[...]

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