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Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Defendants In Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress Medical Malpractice Case

December 10, 2025

Ian Hall and Morgan Thomas, a married couple, brought claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress against Thomas’s treating physician based on her use of allegedly extreme and outrageous terminology when consulting with them following the [...]

Ohio Woman Sues Surgeon For Allegedly Operating On Wrong Knee

August 7, 2025

An Ohio woman has sued University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) and its orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Sohn, alleging that Dr. Sohn was supposed to perform an ACL surgical repair on her left knee in 2023 but instead removed a healthy tendon from her right leg. According to the 33-year-old plaintiff[...]

Federal Judge Allows Some Class-Action Claims To Proceed Against UnitedHealth Group For Denying Coverage To Its Customers

April 1, 2025

The Allegations Plaintiffs claim in their class-action lawsuit that UnitedHealthcare (UHC) used an artificial intelligence program, nH Predict AI Model (“nH Predict”), in lieu of physicians to make coverage determinations. nH Predict compares the specific patient with similar patients and recomm[...]

Why Won’t My Doctor Listen To Me?

February 17, 2025

As an experiment, we used AI to ask the question “Why Won’t My Doctor Listen To Me?” and the following is the response we received. A doctor might not seem to be listening to you for a variety of reasons, including time constraints, communication style differences, not fully u[...]

Why Won’t My Doctor Call Me Back?

September 25, 2024

Many patients report two situations with their doctors that bother them the most: (1) arriving for a doctor’s appointment on time only to be told that the doctor “is running late,” which results in the patient sitting in the waiting room for over an hour beyond their scheduled appo[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Must Prove Intent In Criminal Cases Against Physicians Charged With Illegally Prescribing Opioids

July 4, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Government Must Prove Intent In Criminal Cases Against Physicians Charged With Illegally Prescribing Opioids: The United States Supreme Court stated in its June 27, 2022 opinion: “In each of these two consolidated cases, a doctor was convicted under §841 for dispensin[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Medicaid Act Permits A State To Seek Reimbursement From Settlement Payments Allocated For Future Medical Care

June 20, 2022

In its opinion filed on June 6, 2022, the United States Supreme Court held that the Medicaid Act permits a State (in this case, Florida) to seek reimbursement from settlement payments allocated for future medical care. Medicaid requires participating States to pay for certain needy individuals’ me[...]

Health Insurer Denies Prior Authorization That Delays Ordered MRI, Resulting In Loss Of Leg (And Loss Of Life)

June 15, 2022

A 47-year-old woman complained to her physician that she had pain in her leg. She had six weeks of physical therapy, which did not help. A medical specialist then ordered an MRI in light of her continuing leg pain complaints over the period of six months. Her health insurance company denied authoriz[...]

Texas Appellate Court Applies Heightened Standard Of Care In Dismissing Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

March 7, 2021

In a Texas medical malpractice case decided by the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, at Austin (“Texas Appellate Court”) on February 10, 2021, the plaintiff argued that the trial court erred in determining that the medical care the defendants provided to treat her post-C-section he[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff Filed His Medical Malpractice Lawsuit One Day Too Soon

August 7, 2020

In the case that the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) decided in an unpublished opinion on June 11, 2020, the Michigan medical malpractice plaintiff served the defendants with a notice of intent (“NOI”) to file a medical malpractice claim pursua[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Claim Because Trial Court Erroneously Precluded Expert Testimony

May 30, 2020

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on March 27, 2020, held: “Because Plaintiffs introduced sufficient competent expert testimony that Dr. Galinsky breached the standard of care and Plaintiffs’ failure to prove causation was c[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Affirms That Mother’s Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Claim Was Filed Too Late

May 3, 2020

The Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”), in its opinion rendered on April 30, 2020, held that the Kentucky medical malpractice plaintiff, who suffered a fourth-degree laceration during childbirth that led to the diagnosis of a rectovaginal fistula two weeks later, allege[...]

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