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Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert’s Testimony Properly Excluded In Birth Injury Case

September 23, 2022

Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert’s Testimony Properly Excluded: The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed in its unreported opinion dated September 14, 2022 that “while a sufficient fac[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Transfer Of Medical Malpractice Case Based On Forum Non Conveniens

April 8, 2021

In its unreported opinion dated March 18, 2021, Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), affirmed the transfer of a Maryland medical malpractice case originally filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City to t[...]

Maryland Corporate Lawyer Dies During Her Own Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Trial

September 3, 2019

A 39-year-old corporate lawyer was in the middle of her own two-week Maryland medical malpractice trial when she died of breast cancer on August 31, 2019. The well-respected lawyer, who was also a regent for the University System of Maryland, alleged in her Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that [...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Finds No Error In Instructing Medical Malpractice Jury As To General Negligence

February 9, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it gave standard general instructions on negligence and foreseeability in addition[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Case Remanded To Determine If Dismissal Was Appropriate For Failure To File Supplemental Certificate

August 8, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in an unreported opinion filed on August 2, 2018, remanded to the circuit court a Maryland medical malpractice case where the plaintiff failed to timely file a supplemental certificate and the circuit court thereafter[...]

New Maryland Law Requires Board Of Physicians To Create Physician Profiles Accessible To The Public

October 19, 2017

Effective October 1, 2017, the Maryland State Board of Physicians (“MBP”) is required to create and maintain a public practitioner profile for each licensed physician and provide appropriate and accessible links to the profiles from the Board’s website. In addition to specified discipl[...]

$460K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Leading To Death

May 22, 2017

A Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $460,000 in favor of the wife and six adult children of a 79-year-old man whose lung cancer was misdiagnosed for years until it was at stage IV. The man died two years after he was finally diagnosed, which was five years after a [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Striking Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert

October 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on September 28, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed the trial court’s striking of the plaintiff’s medical malpractice expert because the expert failed to sat[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Death Claim Settled Against Former Physician

June 3, 2015

It has been reported that a former Maryland physician, who lost his Maryland medical license last year after it was discovered that he had previously been convicted of rape in Florida, has settled a Maryland medical malpractice case (Maryland wrongful death case) filed against him by the family of [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Keep Dropping

January 16, 2014

In December 2013, the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”), which insures more Maryland physicians than all other medical malpractice liability companies in Maryland combined, announced a special dividend of 25% for its policyholders for 2014 in a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Ectopic Pregnancy

July 24, 2013

On July 18, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $513,129.00 for the loss of her fallopian tube due to a certified nurse midwife’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy. The jury deliberated for 90 mi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $15.6 Million In Birth Injury Case

June 1, 2013

On May 30, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $15.6 million after three weeks of trial and almost three hours of jury deliberations for the brain damage resulting in severe learning disabilities and developmental delays suffered[...]

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