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Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

January 26, 2026

In October 2018, the decedent was 63 years old and suffered from hypertension, diabetes, renal disease requiring dialysis, and peripheral vascular disease. She had already been hospitalized for extended periods on multiple occasions during 2018 when she was admitted to Beaumont Hospital Farmington H[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died From Malpractice Too Speculative

May 21, 2023

Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died Too Speculative: The decedent child was born at the defendant hospital on June 12, 2014. He allegedly had visible vesicles (fluid-filled sacs or blisters) on his skin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants should have recognized that the vesicles were signs[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Orders Second New Trial In Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis Medical Malpractice Case

July 29, 2019

For the second time in a Maryland medical malpractice breast cancer misdiagnosis case, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) overturned a Maryland medical malpractice jury’s verdict (this time overturning a jury verdict in favor of the defendants; th[...]

Federal Appeals Court Holds U.S. Not Entitled To Recover Future Portion Of Medical Malpractice Judgment If Victim Dies Prematurely

September 14, 2018

In a federal medical malpractice case in which a federal judge found the United States liable for a doctor at a federal health facility for causing the plaintiffs’ son to suffer severe and life-altering injuries at the time of his birth, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circ[...]

Connecticut Court Grants Additur In Medical Malpractice Case

June 5, 2015

The Connecticut Superior Court Judicial District of Hartford has granted the plaintiff’s motion for additur in a Connecticut medical malpractice case, adding $20,861.57 in economic damages to the jury’s verdict, because the jury failed to award the stipulated costs of medical care and f[...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Loss-Of-Chance In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 13, 2013

In its decision filed on May 31, 2013, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that in a medical malpractice action, a patient may recover damages when a physician’s negligence causes the patient to lose a chance of recovery or survival. The Minnesota Supreme Court held, “Because we conclude that M[...]

Doctors Rebuke Value Of Caps On Medical Malpractice Damage Awards

August 18, 2012

In an article appearing on August 1, 2012 in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of doctors and other health professionals expressed their opposition to the arbitrary caps (limits) on damages that many U.S. states have imposed on the amount of the recoveries that victims of medical malpra[...]

Report On Vermont’s Medical Malpractice Proposed Reforms

February 4, 2012

On January 30, 2012, the “Medical Malpractice Reforms Report and Proposal of the [Vermont] Secretary of Administration” (“Report”) was forwarded to the Vermont Legislature to address medical malpractice reform issues/proposals in Vermont. First, Some Vermont Medical Malpract[...]

California’s Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Limits Valid Claims And Benefits Bad Doctors

January 19, 2012

California has one of the lowest medical malpractice damages caps in the United States — $250,000. This cap limits potential medical malpractice claimants from finding medical malpractice lawyers willing to take their cases, no matter how valid the claims and the seriousness of the injuries,[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Places High Value On Life

December 22, 2011

An 87-year-old woman suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease died as a result of dehydration and renal failure in a West Virginia nursing home, allegedly due to medical malpractice at the negligent nursing home where she had been a patient for only 20 days. The medical malpractice l[...]

One Of The Largest Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdicts

November 30, 2011

Kansas is known to be one of the most conservative jurisdictions for jury verdicts in medical malpractice cases (when we say “conservative,” we mean low jury verdicts). However, there is one Kansas medical malpractice verdict that stands out from the rest. In the case MLM, by and through[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In The United States – What Is The Reality?

September 18, 2011

An often-repeated statistic is that medical malpractice (preventable medical errors) in the United States causes approximately 98,000 deaths per year and is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Despite these statistics, there are very few medical malpractice claims filed relative [...]

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