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$5.7M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

September 9, 2025

Christopher Yates was awarded $5.7 million for the wrongful death of his wife, Kim Yates, by suicide. The Kansas medical malpractice jury determined that two defendants were at fault for the woman’s death due to medical negligence. Yates’ medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit alleged th[...]

Kansas Supreme Court Tie Vote Benefits Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

May 25, 2024

Jeannine Williams-Davidson went to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka to have an adrenal gland removed, but Dr. Nason Lui removed part of her pancreas instead. Another procedure and an extended hospital stay were required. Thehospital allegedly charged Williams-Davidson for both surgeries, her extra h[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges 10-Year Misdiagnosis Of Woman’s Multiple Sclerosis Led To Devastating Injury

February 5, 2024

On November 8, 2023, a Kansas woman filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against Saint Luke’s Health System and its physicians alleging that their medical negligence in failing to diagnose her multiple sclerosis led to her disease being untreated for 10 years. The woman’s Kansas medica[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Against Surgeon Who Removed Wrong Organ

October 10, 2023

Jeannine Williams-Davidson underwent surgery to remove her left adrenal gland at Stormont-Vail Hospital. The surgeon who performed the operation misidentified her pancreas as her adrenal gland and removed a portion of the pancreas instead. Jeannine required further surgery and ongoing medical treatm[...]

3-Year-Old Died During Routine Dental Procedure In Kansas

September 11, 2021

The family of a three-year-old child who died during a routine dental procedure in a Kansas dental office has filed a Kansas dental malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against those the family allege are responsible for the death of their precious child. According to the timeline alleged in the lawsu[...]

Private Autopsy Company Sued For Fraud, Owner Indicted

January 21, 2021

National Autopsy Service, which is based in Topeka, Kansas and is owned by Shawn Parcells (“Parcells”), was sued in mid-December 2020 by the family of a 68-year-old man (“decedent’) who died in a hospital and whose death the family believes was caused by medical malpractice. [...]

All 62 Residents Of Kansas Nursing Home Contracted COVID-19 — 10 Died

October 22, 2020

All 62 residents of a Norton, Kansas nursing home contracted COVID-19. Ten residents died. One remains hospitalized. The remaining 51 continued to be cared for at the nursing home. Some of the nursing home’s staff tested positive for COVID-19. The rest of the staff were being tested. Source As[...]

Kansas Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Filed One Day Late

April 27, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 19, 2019: “because no evidence in the record supports [the plaintiff’s] factual assertion that her counsel timely submitted the same petition as the one eventually file stampe[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Says Statute That Eliminated Wrongful Birth Claims Is Constitutional

July 17, 2018

The Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 15, 2018 that “K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 60-1906 is constitutional since a cause of action for wrongful birth was unavailable when our Constitution was adopted and thus does not implica[...]

Kansas Senate Seeks Medical Malpractice Cap Increase And Other Reforms

March 1, 2014

The Kansas Senate has taken the initial step to increase the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in all personal injury actions, including medical malpractice cases, that was enacted in 1988 but had not increased since then despite inflation. The original Kansas cap on noneconomic damages in medic[...]

Kansas Inmate Medical Malpractice Settlement

December 22, 2012

On December 17, 2012, the Shawnee County, Kansas Commissioners approved a $150,000 settlement to the survivors of an inmate who died in November 2009 while imprisoned in its jail. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2012 by the prisoner’s aunt and mother against the [...]

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