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Former Sarasota Pain Doctor Sentenced In Health Care Fraud Kickback Conspiracy

June 25, 2023

Doctor Sentenced In Health Care Fraud: On December 7, 2022, U.S. District Judge William H. Jung sentenced Dr. Steven Chun (59, Sarasota) for conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks and bribes. Chun was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900, the pro[...]

Florida Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Involving Dispute Over Expert Qualifications

January 3, 2023

The District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Florida Appellate Court”) stated in its September 23, 2022 opinion: “Because Ms. Martinez’s expert affidavit satisfies the “same specialty” requirement and because she provided the expert affidavit prior to[...]

Florida Doctor Summarily Suspended For Failing To Pay Medical Malpractice Settlement

October 28, 2022

Doctor Suspended For Failing To Pay Malpractice Settlement: A Florida internal medicine doctor who specialized in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine had his Florida medical license suspended for failing to pay a $70,000 medical malpractice wrongful death settlement. The Underlying Medical [...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$15.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist For Permanent Paralysis

August 31, 2022

$15.5 Million Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist: Earlier in August 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15.5 million against neurosurgeon Mark A. Fulton, M.D., whom the jury determined to have failed to diagnose and subsequently treat a patient&#[...]

$7.6M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation Caused By Medical Negligence

May 24, 2022

In mid-May 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a former firefighter who suffered an above the knee amputation of his right leg after a doctor misdiagnosed a bacterial infection as a sprain. The May 19, 2022 verdict after an eight-day trial resulted in the retire[...]

Florida Doctor Suspended For 90 Days After Patent Died Following Liposuction

January 27, 2022

A Florida internal medicine and cardiovascular disease doctor had his medical license suspended after a patient on whom he performed liposuction died as a result of complications she suffered from the procedure. The extent of the doctor’s training for performing liposuction procedures on patie[...]

$6.5M Florida Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict Against Cardiologist

November 29, 2021

Following a two-week trial in September 2021, a Florida medical malpractice wrongful death jury found a cardiologist liable for the death of his 39-year-old patient, awarding $6.46 million. The plaintiff alleged that the cardiologist negligently diagnosed the woman with congestive heart failure, sep[...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms Trial Court’s Rejection Of Defense Race-Neutral Explanation For Striking Juror

April 13, 2021

The Florida Third District Court of Appeal (“Florida Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on March 24, 2021, upheld a Florida medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff, finding no error with the trial court’s refusal to permit the exercise of a defense peremptory challen[...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms University’s Immunity For Its Employee’s Alleged Medical Negligence

November 20, 2020

The Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on October 28, 2020, affirmed that the University of Miami d/b/a Miller School of Medicine (“University”) was entitled to sovereign immunity pursuant to section 768.28, Florida Statu[...]

Florida Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Mental Health Malpractice Claim Arising From Parkland School Shooting

September 16, 2020

In its May 27, 2020 opinion, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Florida Appellate Court”) stated, “Florida law does not recognize a duty of mental health providers to warn third parties that a patient may be dangerous. This is because of “the i[...]

Florida’s Wrongful Death Statute Precludes Parents Of Dependant Adult Special Needs Child From Suing For His Dental Malpractice Death

May 29, 2019

The loving parents of a 39-year-old special needs son who was dependent on them cannot recover for his wrongful death as a result of dental malpractice because Florida’s wrongful death statute preculdes the parents of an adult child from recovering for their losses as a result of an adult chil[...]

Ex-NFL Football Player Files $180M Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleging Unnecessary, Career-Ending Knee Surgery

December 12, 2018

On November 6, 2018, a former NFL football player filed a $180M medical malpractice lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit In And For Orange County, Florida against a well-known orthopedic surgeon claiming that the defendant recommended and performed unnecessary knee surgey on th[...]

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