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North Carolina Appellate Court Overturns Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Based On Statute Of Limitations

January 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 15, 2020 in a medical malpractice case alleging that the defendants failed to provide appropriate follow-up care or refer the plaintiff to a specialist after a test showed that[...]

$816,988 North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Spinal Epidural Hematoma After Neck Surgery

January 7, 2020

On December 13, 2019, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury deliberated for three and a half hours before returning its verdict in the amount of $816,988 against an emergency room physician, an orthopedic surgeon, and a hospital. The North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $400,000 in pa[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rejects Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

June 3, 2019

In its opinion filed on May 21, 2019, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held: “There is a split of authority around the country as to whether a patient may recover for the injury of the mere “loss of chance” of a better medical outcome pr[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Shoulder Dystocia Case

May 30, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on May 2, 2017, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held that the trial judge did not commit error in refusing to allow the plaintiff’s biomedical engineering expert, who was not a licensed medical provider, fro[...]

North Carolina Supreme Court Determines Patient’s Arbitration Agreement With Surgeon Was Unenforceable Due To Breach Of Fiduciary Duty

January 30, 2017

In its opinion filed on January 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“North Carolina Supreme Court”) held that an arbitration agreement provided by a surgeon to a new patient who signed it two weeks before his surgery was unenforceable due to the surgeon’s breach of fi[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Noncompliance With Pleading Rule

January 13, 2016

By its decision filed on January 5, 2016, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of a North Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit because the plaintiff had failed to follow a North Carolina Rule that requires that the medical [...]

North Carolina Hospital Loses Appeal Seeking To Hide Incident Report

December 26, 2014

In its opinion filed on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Supreme Court”) held that the defendant hospital was not shielded from providing the medical malpractice plaintiff with the results of its internal investigation into an operating room fire that seriously i[...]

One Dollar North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 30, 2014

On September 25, 2014, after a seven-week medical malpractice trial, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a patient and her surviving husband only $1 against a defendant neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have been negligent in performing surgery on the woman –[...]

Ophthalmologist Malpractice Lawsuit Results In $1.5M Verdict

August 27, 2014

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury found against the defendant ophthalmologist after a trial that concluded on August 19, 2014 in which it awarded the plaintiff damages in the amount of $1.5 million for the total loss of his eyesight in his left eye, for which the ophthalmologist will be [...]

North Carolina Court Of Appeals: Sudden Emergency Doctrine Inapplicable In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 12, 2014

In a North Carolina medical malpractice case it decided on July 1, 2014, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which is North Carolina’s intermediate appellate court, held that the standard of care for healthcare professionals, both at common law and as enunciated in section 90-21.12, is design[...]

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