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Maryland Supreme Court Discusses Using Nurses As Qualified Experts In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 29, 2025

Under the Maryland Health Care Malpractice Claims Act (“HCMCA” or “Act”), unless the sole issue in a claim is lack ofinformed consent, a claimant must file a “certificate of a qualified expert … attesting to departure from standards of care, and that the departure from standards of care [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case

July 27, 2025

Linda Newton died at Harford Memorial Hospital (“Hospital”) after falling into septic shock. Her estate (“Estate”) alleged that she died as a result of medical malpractice on the part of a radiologist, Haleema Javid, M.D., who read an x-ray taken when she presented to the Hospital with abdom[...]

Federal Court Enters Summary Judgment For Maryland Nursing Home

June 12, 2025

Plaintiff is the daughter of Louise Longus (“Decedent”). Decedent underwent a below the knee amputation at a hospital in Washington, D.C. On January 7 or 8, 2017, Decedent was transferred to Fairland Center (the “Facility”) for rehabilitation. While Decedent was at the Facility, Decedent tol[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms $1.2M Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict, Turning Aside Claims Of Judge’s Racial Bias

April 25, 2025

A Maryland medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in a medical malpractice wrongful death case, finding that one defendant doctor, who was white, was not negligent, and that the other defendant doctor, who was black, was negligent and that his negligence led to the patient’s[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Revives Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

March 6, 2025

Appellants Fatou Jabbi and Lamin Kanteh, Individually and as Parents and Next Friends of their child T.R., sued defendants/appellees Adventist Healthcare, Inc., Tamara Pottillo, and Lisa Godette for injuries suffered by T.R. related to Ms. Jabbi’s care prior to T.R.’s birth. Ms. Jabbi, then 24 w[...]

Bill Introduced In Maryland House of Delegates To Repeal Cap On Noneconomic Damages

January 23, 2025

On January 8, 2025, House Bill 113 was introduced and read for the first time, which if passed by the Maryland Legislature and signed into law by the Maryland Governor, would repeal Maryland’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases and other personal injury cases. The current [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Not Entitled To File Supplemental Certificate Of Qualified Expert

November 12, 2024

Supplemental Certificates of Qualified Experts (CQEs) in Maryland medical malpractice cases are governed by CJP § 3-2A-06D, which provides in relevant part: (b)(1) Within 15 days after the date that discovery is required to be completed, a party shall file with the court a supplemental certificate [...]

Maryland Supreme Court Applies Lex Loci Delicti Doctrine In Finding That Virginia’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

October 7, 2024

In its Opinion filed on July 31, 2024, the Supreme Court of Maryland held that the Appellate Court of Maryland properly applied Virginia substantive law in accordance with the doctrine of lex loci delicti. Pursuant to that doctrine, which requires the application of the substantive law of the state [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Related Specialties, Informed Consent, Internal Rule As Standard Of Care In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

May 15, 2024

In a published opinion of the Appellate Court of Maryland filed on March 1, 2024, the appellant was seen in the emergency room with complaints of her right foot being cool and pale, with symptoms increasing when leg elevated. The emergency medicine doctor found pedal pulses but ankle brachial index [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Holds Nurse May Qualify As Expert In Nursing Home Pressure Ulcer Case

April 26, 2024

Background Facts The wife and children of decedent, Everett Robinson, filed a Maryland medical malpractice claim against Canton Harbor Healthcare Center, a skilled nursing facility, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. With their complaint, the Robinsons provided a required certificate of qualif[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Agrees That Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Experts’ Opinions Be Stricken

April 19, 2024

Under a Daubert-Rochkind analysis, expert testimony is evaluated by a flexible inquiry into an expert’s reliability, focusing on the expert’s principles and methodology as opposed to their conclusions. The Supreme Court of Maryland has endorsed a non-exclusive list of factors that trial courts s[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Holds Injury From Medical Student Failing To Follow Patient’s Instruction Is Medical Malpractice Claim

February 29, 2024

The Appellate Court of Maryland, in its Per Curium unreported opinion filed on January 4, 2024, stated: Brian Keith Waugh, appellant, sued Dimensions Health Corporation, appellee, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, alleging medical malpractice. Waugh alleged that, while having his bl[...]

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