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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2018

December 31, 2019

An analysis of medical malpractice payouts for 2018 from the data collected by the National Practitioner Data Bank found that total amount of medical malpractice payouts increased by 2.91% in 2018 ($4,031,987,700). The average medical malpractice payout in 2018 was $348,065. There were 11,584 medica[...]

$9.6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Cervical Cancer In Nine-Year-old

December 29, 2019

A Berks County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $9.6 million to a now 15-year-old girl whose cervical cancer was not timely diagnosed. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial lasted eight days before the jury deliberated for two days prior to rendering its verdict against the defend[...]

Misdiagnosis Of Testicular Cancer Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled Against Kaiser Permanente

November 15, 2019

A Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against Kaiser Permanente has reportedly been settled for a confidential amount. The Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit that was filed in October 2017 by a 25-year-old man’s widow alleged that Kaiser Permanente and two [...]

$2.35M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Too Large Breathing Tube During Surgery Leading To Vocal Cord Injury And Death

October 15, 2019

A Georgia medical malpractice jury deliberated for four days after a nearly two-week trial before delivering its verdict on September 26, 2019 that cleared three of the defendants of medical malpractice but found one defendant physician and his employer liable for failing to properly treat an elderl[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Patient Did Not Consent To Knee Surgery Performed But Jury Found No Harm

October 12, 2019

The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District Division One State of California (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on September 24, 2019 that “[w]hile in many cases, even most, a patient subjected to an unwanted surgery will easily be able to prove[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Finds No Error In Refusing To Strike For Cause Five Medical Malpractice Jurors Who Preferred A Higher Standard Of Proof

August 30, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 7, 2019, “Based on the record before us, we find that the trial court did not act illogically or arbitrarily when it denied [the plaintiff’s] for-cause challenges to the five indiv[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Lawyers To Pursue Claim Against Hired Expert

June 26, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on June 4, 2019 that the plaintiffs’ medical malpractice attorneys were entitled to pursue a breach of contract claim against a medical expert hired to testify i[...]

Delaware Supreme Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Against Hospitalists’ Employer Where its Employees Were Not Sued

April 18, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 8, 2019: “we conclude that Greco [Greco v. University of Delaware, 619 A.2d 900 (Del. 1993)] should be overruled to the extent that it held that, if a plaintiff has failed to su[...]

New Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine And Autism

March 16, 2019

A study published on March 5, 2019 in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study” was designed to evaluate whether the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine increases the risk for autism in children,[...]

$20.6M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Man Who Became Paralyzed Due To Hospital Medical Negligence

March 1, 2019

A now 64-year-old Illinois man has settled his Illinois medical malpractice case that alleged that he became paralyzed because the defendants failed to timely diagnose and treat his ruptured aneurysm. As a result of the misdiagnosis, the man unnecessarily became paralyzed, he had to have several toe[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Discusses Liability For Unauthorized Disclosure Of Confidential Medical Information

November 20, 2018

In its opinion filed on November 1, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) discussed the liability of a medical practice for its employees’ unauthorized access to and disclosure of a patient’s confidential medical information. The plaintiff’s com[...]

$400K Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Vermont Surgeon For Lack Of Informed Consent

September 6, 2018

In early August 2018, a federal medical malpractice juy in Vermont returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $400,000 against a Vermont surgeon whom the jury determined failed to advise the plaintiff regarding alternatives to the surgical procedure that resulted in the plaintif[...]

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