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Maryland’s New Physician Advertising Law

October 8, 2012

Maryland enacted a new law regarding advertising by physicians that became effective on October 1, 2012. The new law can be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Health Occupations Article, Section 14-503, and is entitled “Advertising.” The intent of Section 14-503 is described as [...]

Court Says Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Request Was Filed Too Late

September 29, 2012

In a recently filed Maryland medical malpractice appellate court decision that will make some Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff attorneys cringe, the highest appellate court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), decided an appeal more than six years a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Of 7-Year-Old

September 26, 2012

It has been reported that a Maryland medical malpractice claim involving the death of a 7-year-old boy who died in 2009 as a result of alleged medical malpractice arising from hernia repair surgery performed by an urologist on December 18, 2008 has been settled for an undisclosed sum. The medical [...]

Maryland Surgery Center Closed Due To Infections

September 22, 2012

A cosmetic surgery center located in Baltimore County, Maryland that refers to itself as a “med spa” was forced to close on September 19, 2012 by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DHMH”) and the Baltimore County Department of Health after three of its lip[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

September 8, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $21 Million For Botched Delivery

August 2, 2012

On July 31, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $21 million ($18 million for future medical expenses, $2 million for future lost wages, and $1 million in non-economic damages) to a now-9-year-old child and his parents after a two-week, hotly contested trial that focused on t[...]

Update Concerning Man Charged In New Hampshire Hepatitis C Outbreak

July 28, 2012

In an update to our blog posting on July 22, 2012 entitled, “New Hampshire Med Tech Charged In Hep C Outbreak,” it has been revealed that the man allegedly responsible for causing a hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire that infected more than 30 patients was fire[...]

$20.9 Million Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict After Newborn’s Shoulder Dystocia

July 8, 2012

On June 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded the family of a newborn $20.9 million for the baby’s permanent paralysis of his left arm allegedly due to the delivering obstetrician pulling too hard on the baby’s head during delivery, thereby causing left obstetrical brachi[...]

$55 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 27, 2012

On June 25, 2012, after more than 11 hours of deliberations, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the parents of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage, cerebral palsy, mental and physical disabilities, acute renal failure, and other serious injuries as a res[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mutilated Genitals

June 21, 2012

A federal medical malpractice jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were allegedly mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that a local hospital failed to diagnose for over 58 hours. The award in the amount of $1.4 million for noneconomic damages will be auto[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Cardiac Catheterization

June 3, 2012

On May 7, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1.2M in favor of a woman who had undergone a cardiac catheterization (a procedure whereby a doctor inserts a wire tool and catheter through the patient’s groin and manipulates the catheter up the descendi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice: Why Are Hospitals Referring Malpractice Victims To Lawyers?

May 25, 2012

It has been reported that three of Maryland’s largest health care systems routinely attempt to refer victims of medical malpractice that occurred in their hospitals to local medical malpractice lawyers who are on lists of Maryland medical malpractice lawyers that the health care systems mainta[...]

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