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West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Chemo Drug Caused Patient’s Death

February 17, 2021

A West Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit alleges that a 41-year-old West Virginia man who had been recently diagnosed with rectal cancer was improperly treated with a chemotherapy drug that is known to worsen patients’ preexisting heart disease, causing his death. The patholo[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Urgent Care Clinic Failed To Diagnose Foot Fracture

September 1, 2019

A West Virginia man who suffered a serious foot injury at work when a 1,000 pound pipe fell on his foot has filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against an urgent care clinic, alleging that its physician failed to diagnose and treat his foot fracture, leading to delay in treatment injur[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Enforces Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Signed By Successor Attorney-In-Fact

August 25, 2018

The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 30, 2018 that a successor attoney-in-fact appointed in a durable power of attorney (“DPOA”) executed by a nursing home resident may bind the resident to an arbitrati[...]

$5.7M West Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Vocal Cord Paralysis From Thyroidectomy

October 21, 2017

Earlier this month a West Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5,788,977.36 in favor of the 41-year-old plaintiff who suffered vocal cord paralysis following a thyroidectomy that the plaintiff alleged was due to the defendant surgeon negligently failing to protect[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Sides With Hospital In Newborn’s Death Claim

January 9, 2016

On January 7, 2016, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury took one and a half hours after a three and a half day trial to find that a local West Virginia hospital was not medically negligent in the death of a newborn baby just a few days after his birth in 2012 due to undiagnosed Hypoplastic Le[...]

West Virginia Legislature Moving Forward With Expanding Medical Malpractice Limits

February 16, 2015

The West Virginia Legislature is quickly moving forward with its efforts to expand and extend West Virginia’s restrictive medical malpractice liability laws to further insulate and protect a growing list of health care providers whose negligence harms West Virginians, at the expense of[...]

New Trial Motion Denied For $2M Vaginal Mesh Verdict Against Bard

February 5, 2015

On January 20, 2015, the judge who oversaw the first federal transvaginal mesh trial against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”) that resulted in a $2 million jury verdict for the plaintiffs ($250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages) in federal court in West Virgin[...]

$38M Settlement Approved Following $91.5M West Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Jury Verdict

October 28, 2014

On October 20, 2014, a West Virginia judge gave final approval to a settlement reached in a nursing home negligence case in which a jury had awarded $91.5 million to the plaintiffs in 2011. The judge approved the distribution of the $38 million settlement funds as follows: $20.5 to the family member[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Filed For 4-Year-Old’s Undiagnosed Ruptured Spleen

September 1, 2014

The parents of a four-year-old child filed a West Virginia medical malpractice case on July 16, 2014 against a physician, a radiology practice, and a local hospital, alleging that their medical negligence in failing to diagnose their son’s ruptured spleen led to his serious injuries. The fam[...]

$91.5M Nursing Home Malpractice Verdict In West Virginia Challenged

March 8, 2014

On March 5, 2014, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (“the Court”), West Virginia’s highest court, heard oral arguments with regard to the appeal of a nursing home malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $91.5 million that was rendered in 2011. $80 million of the verdict[...]

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