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… Read More
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Minnesota Appellate Court Holds Plaintiff’s Experts Were Unqualified To Render Opinions In Medical Malpractice Case
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… Read More
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$8.9M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Midwife For Birth Injury
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… Read More
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Minnesota Appellate Court Establishes Firm Deadline For Medical Malpractice Expert Reports
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… Read More
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Minnesota Nursing Home Faulted For Resident’s Scalding Death
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… Read More
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Minnesota Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death Of Teenager
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…. Read More
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Minnesota Nursing Home Resident Choked On A Sandwich And Died
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,… Read More
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Minnesota Nursing Home Medication Error Leads To Resident’s Death
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… Read More
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Minnesota Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Following Discectomy
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… Read More
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Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Post-Operative Blindness And Deafness
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… Read More
