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Kentucky Appellate Court Holds University of Kentucky Entitled To Immunity For Medical Malpractice Claim

January 25, 2025

Caitlin Huff was transported from Georgetown Community Hospital to University of Kentucky (“UK”) in May 2022 because she exhibited symptoms requiring a higher level of care than was available at Georgetown Community Hospital. She had difficulty walking, had severe back pain and leg numbn[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Failure To File Certificate Of Merit Fatal To Claim

May 13, 2024

The Supreme Court of Kentucky, in its opinion filed on February 15, 2024, held: “we hereby affirm the Court of Appeals’ holding that all claimants, whether represented by counsel or not, are required to file a certificate of merit and that Sanchez failed to do so. Additionally, this Court mu[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants Where Plaintiff Failed To Qualify Its Expert To Render Causation Opinion

September 9, 2022

In its unpublished opinion rendered on June 3, 2022, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) affirmed a trial court’s granting summary judgment to the defendants in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff’s medical expert was a nurse [...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms Res Ipsa Loquitur Did Not Apply In Medical Malpractice Case

April 11, 2019

In an unpublished opinion rendered on March 29, 2019, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held that the Kentucky medical malpractice plaintiff had “failed to present any affirmative evidence that [the defendant hospital] breached the standard [...]

Kentucky Senate Republicans Push For Medical Review Panels

February 9, 2015

Late last week, the Republican-controlled Kentucky Senate passed a medical malpractice reform bill that would add an additional layer and burden to those seeking justice for medical malpractice committed in Kentucky. In what the foes of the Kentucky medical malpractice reform effort call unnecess[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Orders Production Of Medical Malpractice Incident Report

August 25, 2014

The Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) rendered its decision on August 21, 2014 in a case where the defendant hospital claimed a federal confidentiality privilege to refuse to provide the medical malpractice plaintiff with a copy of the incident report written by a surg[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendant’s License Status Inadmissible

March 26, 2014

A Kentucky woman alleged that a radiologist misread three CT scans of her lungs and failed to identify and report lesions, one in either lung, that ultimately resulted in the delay of her lung cancer diagnosis. The woman’s experts testified at trial that the lesions were identifiable as [...]

Kentucky Lawmakers Looking To Pass Unnecessary Medical Malpractice Laws

January 30, 2014

Some Kentucky lawmakers, with the backing, support, and legislative push of a vocal and powerful coalition of financially-interested health care groups, are setting their sights on pushing forward with their agenda of imposing unnecessary medical malpractice “reforms” that will benefit[...]

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