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Maryland Medical Malpractice Discovery Rule

June 4, 2024

Discovery Rule For a Maryland medical malpractice claim to accrue under the discovery rule, a prospective plaintiff must have notice of the nature and cause of his or her injury. An injury occurs when the negligent act is coupled with some harm to create a legally cognizable wrong. Thus, a prospecti[...]

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 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[...]

$8.3M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Perforation During Surgery

April 12, 2024

In late March 2024, after an eight-day trial, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $8.3 million in favor of the family of a 53-year-old man who underwent surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center on May 29, 2019 during which the surgeon unknowingly per[...]

$3.38M Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Against Radiologist For Missed Cancer

March 1, 2024

Last week a Wicomico County, Maryland medical malpractice six-person jury awarded $3.38 million against defendants Peter Libby, M.D. and Peninsula Radiological Associates in favor of Mary Raver and her husband, Timothy, for the defendants’ alleged breach of the standard of care owed to Mary Ra[...]

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[...]

$9 Million Maryland Nursing Home Bedsore Verdict

August 26, 2023

$9 Million Bedsore Verdict: A Baltimore County Maryland nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict in favor of a nursing home resident who developed bedsores at a local nursing home where he had been a resident for about six months after he suffered a stroke. The six-person jury awarded $8 mi[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Plaintiff An Opportunity To Prove Common Law Marriage In Pennsylvania

June 2, 2023

Court Allows Plaintiff Opportunity To Prove Common Law Marriage: Margaret Conway died on April 12, 2017, due to colon cancer. In February 2021, Thomas Zadnik filed a wrongful death complaint against Dr. Ambinder and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Ambinder’s employer. The Maryland medical malpractice [...]

Maryland Eye Bank Keeps Its $606,415.49 Verdict In Contaminated Eyewash Case After Appeal

April 6, 2023

Eye Bank Keeps Its $606415.49 Verdict: In its published opinion dated February 15, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated: “In this appeal, we consider whether the district court erred in awarding summary judgment to plain[...]

$850,000 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Caused By Pulmonary Embolism

February 24, 2023

$850,000 Verdict For Pulmonary Embolism Death: A Maryland medical malpractice jury in a conservative jurisdiction has awarded $850,000 to the plaintiffs in a case involving the failure to timely prevent pulmonary embolism (PE) in the hospital, which led to a man’s death. The verdict included m[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Prison Medical Malpractice Case Against Corizon Correctional Health Care

February 14, 2023

Malpractice Case Against Corizon Correctional Health Care Dismissed: The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland affirmed the dismissal of a prison medical malpractice case filed against Corizon Correctional Health Care because of improper service or process, in its unreported opinion dated December 2,[...]

$792,000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Timely Diagnose Lyme Disease

February 1, 2023

$792000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict: Following a two-week trial before a Baltimore medical malpractice jury, and after two hours of deliberations, the jury returned its verdict in the amount of $792,000 in favor of a 32-year-old African American man who suffered serious complications from [...]

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