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$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 Applies Virginia Law In Affirming Liposuction Maryland Malpractice Verdict

July 16, 2023

Background Facts Maryland Appellate Court Applies Virginia Law: The plaintiff underwent a six-and-a-half hour liposuction procedure in Virginia by a cosmetic surgeon who resided in Maryland. The plaintiff suffered a severe infection that she contended through her experts was introduced into her abdo[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation In Affirming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

October 14, 2022

Court Discusses Intervening And Superseding Causation: Intervening Cause Section 441 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts defines an intervening force as a force “which actively operates in producing harm to another after the actor’s negligent act or omission has been committed.” Importantly, [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable For Actions Of Trauma Surgeon

July 31, 2022

Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable : Under the doctrine of apparent agency, an entity may be found vicariously liable to a third party for the negligence of its apparent agent if (1) the entity represents, or acquiesces in the appearance, that an individual is its agent; (2) the third party rel[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$2.4 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Breast Cancer Treatment

June 30, 2022

On June 27, 2022, a Circuit Court for Baltimore County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.4 million ($143,305.96 for past medical expenses and $2,256,694.04 in non-economic damages, which will be reduced pursuant to Maryland’s cap on non[...]

$9.9M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Colon Cancer Leading To Death

June 9, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiff in a trial that concluded in May 2022 in a case of medical negligence filed against a primary care practice that allegedly failed to diagnose a patient’s colon cancer over a period of five years despite continuing compl[...]

$5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 25, 2022

A Maryland medical malpractice jury in Howard County, Maryland has awarded the plaintiff in excess of $5 million for permanent damage sustained to her pancreas as a result of an allegedly botched diagnostic procedure that the defendant gastroenterologist had performed in 2014. The Maryland medical m[...]

$742,660 Maryland Wrongful Birth/Negligent Sterilization Verdict

May 9, 2022

During the evening on April 14, 2022, a Montgomery County, Maryland wrongful birth/negligent sterilization medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after four full days of trial in favor of the parents against the OBGYN defendant. The Underlying Facts One doctor (Defendant One) in a shared pati[...]

$1.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn

September 30, 2021

On September 24, 2021, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded the parents of a stillborn child $1.5 million after five days of trial and two days of jury deliberations. The portion of the Maryland birth injury jury’s verdict for noneconomic damages will be reduced to $943,750, pursuant to[...]

$1.5M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict In Maryland For LAAM Procedure

September 13, 2021

On July 26, 2021, a federal medical malpractice jury in Maryland returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.5 million. The verdict included past medical expenses in the amount of $529,571.04, past lost wages in the amount of $41,500.00, and noneconomic damages in the amount o[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon

March 20, 2021

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the Plaintiff’s medical malpractice verdict in its unreported opinion dated March 15, 2021, finding that the trial court did not abuse its discret[...]

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