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$1.3M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Missed Heart Attack In 23-Year-Old

December 2, 2018

On November 20, 2018, after a ten-day trial, a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death jury found an emergency room physician and his employer liable for the death of a 23-year-old patient who had gone to the emergency room complaining of chest pain. Despite an abnormal EKG and other symptoms of[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Medical Malpractice Case Against Johns Hopkins Hospital Was Filed Too Late

September 10, 2018

In its unreported opinion filed on August 14, 2018, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had filed her Maryland medical malpractice claim after the relevant statute of limitations for medical malpractic[...]

$1.23M Maryland Verdict For Man Thrown From Wheelchair In Medical Transport Vehicle

September 9, 2018

On June 8, 2018, a Maryland jury returned its verdict in favor of a wheelchair-bound man who was being transported by a medical transport company when he was thrown to the floor of the vehicle after the vehicle hit a snowbank, because the man was not properly strapped in the vehicle by the transport[...]

Maryland’s High Court Holds Kennedy Kreiger Institute Potentially Liable For Injuries Suffered By Nonparticipants In Lead Paint Study

August 16, 2018

In its 4-to-3 opinion filed on Agust 13, 2018, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (Maryland’s highest appellate court) addressed the issue of whether a duty of care extends from a medical research institute to a child, who was not a participant in a research study that sought to investigate the [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Requirements For Medical Malpractice Certificate Of Qualified Expert

July 2, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) issued a reported opinion on June 28, 2018 in which it held that the failure of the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff’s certificate of qualified expert to specifically identify the health care providers who [...]

$295K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misaligned Hip Prosthesis

May 31, 2018

Earlier this month, a Prince George’s County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of almost $295,000 in favor of the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff who had to undergo total hip replacement surgery only eighteen days after his initial hip prosthesis surg[...]

$4,377,438 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict In Federal Court Under Federal Tort Claims Act

May 26, 2018

On May 23, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (“federal court”) awarded the total sum of $4,377,438 to a young man who suffered permanent kidney damage that will require kidney transplants in the future due to the medical negligence of various doctors at [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Holds Trial Court Erred In Allowing Medical Malpractice Jury To Consider Plaintiff’s Alleged Pre-Treatment Negligence

April 27, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) discussed in its reported opinion dated April 26, 2018 whether the purported negligence of a plaintiff, which precedes the medical treatment by the defendant, may be raised by the defendant as contributory negligence i[...]

Maryland Judge Awards $2.5M In Punitive Damages To Doctor Intentionally Humiliated By Maryland Board Of Physicians

February 18, 2018

A Maryland Circuit Court judge awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages against certain defendants whom the judge found by clear and convincing evidence had acted with actual malice toward the plaintiff doctor and his family members with regard to an order of the Maryland Board of Physicians (“[...]

$645K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Elective Back Surgery

February 15, 2018

On January 12, 2018, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a 64-year-old man died from heart complications following elective back surgery in October 2013 that was intended to address an injury [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Hospital’s Discovery, Expert Disclosure Violations

January 28, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, in its unpublished opinion dated January 17, 2018, affirmed the Maryland medical malpractice jury’s defense verdict, finding that the trial judge had not e[...]

Maryland Hospital Faces Class Action Lawsuit Filed By Patients Of OB-GYN Who Used Fake Name

January 8, 2018

A Maryland hospital has been sued in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 100 women who were patients of an OB-GYN at the hospital who used a fake name to obtain hospital privileges and to treat patients that included gynecological examinations and delivering babies. The plaintiffs al[...]

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