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$397K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child Born After Tubal Ligation

November 26, 2015

A Maryland couple filed a medical malpractice case in Maryland against an obstetrician-gynecologist who had performed an elective bilateral tubal ligation on the wife after the plaintiffs expressed to the defendant that they could not afford to have a fourth child. Months after the defendant phys[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Teenager’s Required Heart Transplant

June 16, 2015

On May 8, 2015, a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on behalf of a now 16-year-old former student athlete who was required to have a heart transplant, and may need further heart transplants in the future, allegedly due to the negligent failure of [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Allows Testimony Of Defendant Doctor As To Her Habit/Routine In Treating Patients

February 2, 2015

In a case decided on January 28, 2015 by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, it was held that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion when he allowed the Defendant emergency room physician to testify[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Overturns $620,000 Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 14, 2014

In an unreported opinion of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) dated November 5, 2014, which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, the Appellate Court overturned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff in the amount of $620,000 that had been rendered by[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Spine Surgeon (Part Two)

November 16, 2014

In our blog posting on November 15, 2014, we began discussing the Maryland medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendant spine surgeon and his orthopedic practice that was reached by a six-person Maryland medical malpractice jury on November 13, 2014 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, after[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Claim Against Student Phlebotomist Settled

September 2, 2014

In an unreported decision of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court”) that was issued on August 29, 2014, the Court was asked to decide an indemnification issue between the medical malpractice defendants. The alleged facts, however, caught our attention because the underlyin[...]

$5.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Knee Injury Leading To Amputation

May 30, 2014

On May 23, 2014, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in Baltimore City awarded more than $5.2 million to a security guard whose knee injury was misdiagnosed by an emergency room physician and a physician’s assistant, ultimately leading to an above-the-knee amputation. While the jury was delibe[...]

Maryland Physician Discipline Statistics For Fiscal Year 2013

January 21, 2014

The Maryland Board of Physicians Annual Report to the Legislative Policy Committee for Fiscal Year 2013 that was forwarded on November 7, 2013 stated that the Board had issued 1,800 initial medical licenses, 152 reinstated medical licenses, and registered 2,650 unlicensed medical practitione[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Keep Dropping

January 16, 2014

In December 2013, the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”), which insures more Maryland physicians than all other medical malpractice liability companies in Maryland combined, announced a special dividend of 25% for its policyholders for 2014 in a[...]

Maryland’s Highest Court Reinstates $2.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2013

On August 22, 2013, Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $2,874.398 that the intermediate appellate court (the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland) had vacat[...]

Changes To Maryland’s Medical Assistance Lien Regulations For Medical Malpractice Claims

August 12, 2013

Effective June 24, 2013, Maryland made changes to its Medical Assistance (“MA”) lien recovery regulations that set forth the manner in which the amount of the lien will be reduced in medical malpractice and other personal injury claims for attorney’s fees incurred by the MA recipi[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Vacates $28 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 10, 2013

On July 3, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s second highest appellate court, vacated a Baltimore medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $28,301,825 (the Maryland medical malpractice jury originally awarded the plainti[...]

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