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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Podiatrist’s Win In Medical Malpractice Case

April 27, 2021

In its non-precedential decision filed on April 9, 2021, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) held: “the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying Appellant’s weight of the evidence claim. Appellant has waived her challenge to Dr. Boberg�[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reinstates $2,391,620 Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 30, 2019

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”), in its opinion dated September 26, 2019, reinstated a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $2,391,620 in favor of the plaintiff, who alleged that she suffered injuries whil[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Evidence Of Risks Of Surgery In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 20, 2019

In its decision filed on June 18, 2019, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Western District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) stated in a medical malpractice appeal, “While evidence that a specific injury is a known risk or complication does not definitively establish or disprove negli[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Quest Diagnostic’s Standard Operating Procedures Are Confidential In Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 25, 2017

In a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleges that Quest Diagnostics misdiagnosed the decedent’s cancer, the non-precedential decsion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) filed on October 3, 2917 stated: “the evide[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Discusses Jury Bias In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

November 6, 2017

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in its non-precedential decision filed on October 6, 2017, affirmed the defense verdict entered in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case where a juror was employed by a company that did business with doctors and therapists who had privileges at the defendant hos[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Consent Forms Admissible In Medical Malpractice Case To Show Knowing Refusal For Treatment

August 6, 2017

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) affirmed in its July 18, 2017 decision that the trial court did not commit error in admitting into evidence during the Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death trial the consent for treatment forms signed by a Jehovah’s Witn[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Nonsuit In Legal Malpractice Case Involving Medical Malpractice Case

May 11, 2017

In its non-precedential written decision filed on March 27, 2017, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) affirmed the nonsuit of the plaintiff’s legal malpractice lawsuit filed against her former medical malpractice lawyer that alleged that the defendan[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Defendant’s Refreshed Recollection At Trial

February 4, 2017

In an unpublished opinion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) dated January 24, 2017, the Appellate Court affirmed the Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the defendant emergency room physician, finding that the defendant’s refres[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Allows Orthopedic Surgeon To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case Against Podiatrist

April 15, 2016

In its opinion filed on March 30, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s dismissal of a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case filed against a podiatrist, holding that the plaintiff’s orthopedic expert was qualified to testify a[...]

$6.2M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 2-Year-Old

May 25, 2015

On May 20, 2015, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned a plaintiffs’ verdict in the amount of $6.2 million, after almost four weeks of trial, against the defendants pediatric surgeons, hospital, and health care systems arising out of the death of a two-year-old child in 2009. The[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Newborn’s Brachial Plexus Injury

January 18, 2015

A woman was 22 years old when she gave birth to her second child, a son, in June 2012 (her first baby was a girl, who was born healthy following a normal vaginal delivery). The woman’s second child suffered serious and permanent birth injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence dur[...]

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