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Minnesota Appellate Court Remands Mental Health Provider Malpractice Lawsuit For Suicide/Familicide

March 13, 2021

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Court of Appeals”) held in its opinion filed on February 16, 2021, “Because Short’s mental-health provider owed a duty of care to him as a matter of law, and because genuine issues of material fact exist as to whether Short’s [...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Holds Physician-Patient Relationship Not Necessary For Medical Malpractice Claim

June 9, 2019

The State of Minnesota Supreme Court (“Minnesota Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 17, 2019 that a physician-patient relationship is not a necessary element of a claim for professional negligence (medical malpractice). A physician owes a duty of care to a third party whe[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Holds Plaintiff’s Experts Were Unqualified To Render Opinions In Medical Malpractice Case

June 4, 2019

In its unreported opinion filed on May 20, 2019, the State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”) overturned the jury’s $2.5 million verdict in favor of the plaintiff in her Minnesota medical malpractice case, holding that the plaintiff’s experts were unq[...]

$8.9M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Midwife For Birth Injury

October 19, 2018

A Minnesota medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiff on September 28, 2018 for the serious and permanent injuries suffered by her 10.5 pound baby as a result of the defendant midwife underestimating the size of the baby and allowing the mother to attempt a vaginal delivery. The nurse[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Establishes Firm Deadline For Medical Malpractice Expert Reports

May 15, 2018

The Minnesota Court of Appeals held in its opinion filed on April 30, 2018 that under the expert-review statute, Minn. Stat. § 145.682 (2016), plaintiffs must file an affidavit of expert identification in medical malpractice cases within 180 days of the “commencement of discovery.” For [...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Faulted For Resident’s Scalding Death

May 14, 2017

The Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Health Facility Complaints has issued an Investigative Report finding a local Minnesota nursing home guilty of nursing home neglect because it failed to provide a safe environment and adequate supervision for a resident who wandered into the facilityR[...]

Minnesota Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death Of Teenager

February 12, 2017

In mid-January 2017, the parents of a teenager who died after having her wisdom teeth extracted by a Minnesota dentist filed a Minnesota wrongful death lawsuit against the dentist, alleging that dental malpractice led to the death of their child. An investigation by the Minnesota Board of Dentistry [...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Resident Choked On A Sandwich And Died

September 20, 2016

The Minnesota Department of Health (“Department”) recently reported on its investigation into the death of a Minnesota nursing home resident who was on a special diet when she grabbed a sandwich because she was not properly supervised by the nursing home staff, stuffed the sandwich int[...]

Minnesota Nursing Home Medication Error Leads To Resident’s Death

April 14, 2016

A resident of a Minnesota nursing home was given ten-times the ordered dose of morphine by a nursing home employee, leading to the resident’s death within one hour and forty five minutes after receiving the deadly dose. The nurse who had administered the wrong dose of morphine allegedly had qu[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Following Discectomy

September 24, 2015

A Minnesota medical malpractice trial that began on September 15, 2015 involves the death of a 44-year-old former Minnesota police officer who died on March 27, 2014 following a discectomy and disc fusion surgery that was performed on March 20, 2014. The Minnesota medical malpractice wrongful deat[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Post-Operative Blindness And Deafness

September 9, 2015

In July 2015, a Minnesota couple filed a Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit in federal court against a local hospital system for the alleged medical negligence of the defendant’s surgeon and anesthesiologist during post-operative care of the husband that allegedly resulted in his severe i[...]

Minnesota Malpractice Case For Cancerous Pancreas Transplanted Into Patient

January 9, 2015

In an unpublished opinion released on November 29, 2014, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit involving the transplantation of a pancreas from a donor who unknowingly had cancer into a woman who subsequently cont[...]

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