Who Will Pay The $190M Johns Hopkins Settlement?
July 31, 2014
Last week, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (“Hopkins”) announced that it had reached a $190 million settlement (which had received preliminary court approval but still needed final court approval) with over 8,000 patients of the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Medical Center who were se[...]
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What Are MCOs, HMOs, and PPOs?
June 26, 2014
In a recent Maryland appellate court decision that invalidated a large Maryland medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the Maryland Court of Appeals discussed the differences among Health Maintenance Organizations (“HMOs”), Preferred Provider Organizations (“PPOs[...]
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Maryland Stent Claim Settled
May 17, 2014
A Maryland medical malpractice case against a former cardiologist and a local hospital in Maryland that had been filed in September 2012 was dismissed as a result of a settlement order that was entered on April 30, 2014. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The former doctor is presently [...]
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$2.1M Maryland Medical Malpractice Mesh Verdict
April 14, 2014
After a one-week Maryland medical malpractice jury trial and two days of jury deliberations, the jury awarded the medical malpractice plaintiff approximately $2.1 million on April 2, 2014, which will be reduced to $1.3 million after applying Maryland’s cap (limit) on noneconomic damages. The[...]
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Maryland Actos Trial Underway
September 6, 2013
On September 3, 2013, a Baltimore City jury trial began in which the plaintiff alleges that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of the bladder cancer that led to the death of a former U.S. Army translator in 2012. Actos is manufactured by Asia’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Takeda P[...]
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