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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 Defense Attorney Says Jurors Are Stupid

December 9, 2013

After a Maryland medical malpractice jury found his physician-client to have been negligent and that the physician’s negligence caused a newborn to suffer a severe and permanent brain injury for which the jury returned a multi-million dollar verdict, the defendant physician’s attorney i[...]

$3.75M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delay In Diagnosing Lung Cancer

November 29, 2013

On November 25, 2013, a Montgomery County Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3.75 million in favor of the family of a 74-year-old man whose lung cancer diagnosis was delayed by 20 months after his primary care physician failed to properly follow up regarding a l[...]

Who Employs The Doctor Who Treats You In The Hospital?

November 27, 2013

When you go to the hospital to receive medical care for an acute or chronic condition, you often do not have a choice of the doctors who will treat you. When you arrive at the hospital emergency room, you probably have never been treated in the past by the doctor who treats you and you probably h[...]

“It’s Just Business” For Maryland Outpatient Surgery Center

November 11, 2013

The former medical director and founder of a Maryland outpatient surgery center filed a lawsuit against his former partners after he was terminated from his exclusive contract to provide anesthesia services at the center. The anesthesiologist was one of 25 physician-owners of the outpatient surgery[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Decides Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case Was Timely Filed

October 22, 2013

On October 18, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”) held that the Legislature did not intend to define “wrongful act” so as to render a wrongful death claim contingent on the decedent’s ability to timely file a tort claim prior to death in a medic[...]

Maryland Expands Board of Physicians Powers

October 8, 2013

As a result of a new Maryland law that became effective on October 1, 2013, the Maryland State Board of Physicians (“Board”) is now authorized to issue cease and desist orders to physicians and others that it regulates to stop specific acts, such as prescribing controlled dangerous su[...]

Contributory Negligence Dooms Maryland Jury’s $1.765M Actos Award

September 28, 2013

On September 26, 2013, after less than one day of jury deliberations following four weeks of trial, a Baltimore jury calculated its award in the total amount of $1,765,000 in favor of the plaintiffs in their product liability lawsuit against the large pharmaceutical company Takeda Pharmaceuticals[...]

Fireworks During Maryland ACTOS Trial

September 25, 2013

The Maryland wrongful death jury trial against the manufacturer of the diabetes drug Actos that began on September 3, 2013 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (only the second state Actos case to go to trial in the United States) is expected to conclude late next week yet it has resulted in [...]

Maryland Hospital Immune For Its Failure To Involuntarily Admit Patient

September 11, 2013

On September 5, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”) held that a Maryland hospital was entitled to statutory immunity from any liability when it decided not to involuntarily admit an individual so long as it acted in good faith and with reason[...]

$346,272 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Death

August 31, 2013

On August 28, 2013, a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland awarded $346,272 to the family of a veteran who died on October 11, 2007 as a result of medical malpractice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. The 59-year-old veteran had been discharged to home from the VA Medical[...]

Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 16, 2013

Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]

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