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Indiana Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Hospital Sexual Assault Claim

December 11, 2016

On November 23, 2016, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant hospital after an eight-day trial, finding that the hospital was not responsible for the two sexual assaults of a woman in its psychiatric unit that occurred in 2008 that were perpetrated by anot[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Kidney Biopsy Case

November 20, 2016

In it decision filed on November 10, 2016, the Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial District Sixth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) affirmed an Illinois medical practice defense verdict, stating that in reviewing a medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the defen[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Alleged Ultrasound Negligence

September 22, 2016

After a recent four-day medical malpractice jury trial, a Florida jury took only two hours to return its verdict in favor of the defendant Florida OB/GYN and his medical practice. The plaintiff, who sought $8 million in compensatory damages from the defendants, alleged that the defendant had failed[...]

Wyoming Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Death Shortly After Discharge From Hospital

August 27, 2016

On August 19, 2016, a Wyoming medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of all of the defendants after about two hours of deliberations, finding that the September 2011 death of a 16-year-old paralyzed boy within six hours after being discharged from the defendant hospital was not due[...]

South Dakota Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

August 15, 2016

On August 1, 2016, a South Dakota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defense, clearing the defendant surgeon of a claim of medical negligence leading to his patient’s death. The South Dakota medical malpractice jury deliberated for over four and a half hours before h[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Clears Defendant Doctors For Hospital Patient’s Death

July 31, 2016

On July 21, 2016, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant pulmonologist and the defendant ENT, finding that they had not breached the standard of care in their treatment of a 56-year-old man who they had examined in the hospital only hours before he suffered[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Jury Finds Radiologist Negligent But His Negligence Did Not Contribute To Patient’s Death

July 8, 2016

On June 24, 2016, a New Mexico medical malpractice jury determined that the defendant radiologist breached the standard of care when he failed to recognize a cancerous tumor on a patient’s spine but the jury also determined that the radiologist’s negligence was not the cause of the 44-ye[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Hospital Death

May 21, 2016

On April 20, 2016, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a hospital physician in a Florida medical negligence lawsuit that alleged that the failure to diagnose a woman’s infection was the cause of her death. The hospital where the woman had died had settled the Fl[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Anesthesiologist

April 16, 2016

On April 1, 2016, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict favor of the defendant anesthesiologist after ninety minutes of jury deliberations following a trial that lasted one week. The Maryland medical malpractice jury found that the anesthesiologist did not breach the standard of c[...]

Plaintiff’s Facebook Postings Doomed Her Indiana Medical Malpractice Case

March 19, 2016

An Indiana woman sued her ophthalmologists, claiming that their care of her fell below the standard of care and resulted in her blindness. The 27-year-old plaintiff testified during the five-day Indiana medical malpractice trial that she became legally blind due to the defendants’ negligence.�[...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Jury Rejects Wrongful Birth Claim

February 14, 2016

On February 11, 2016, after a nine-day trial, a Montana medical malpractice jury rejected the plaintiffs’ wrongful birth claim in which the Montana couple alleged that they would have terminated the pregnancy had they been offered a genetic test for cystic fibrosis that would have disclosed t[...]

PA Superior Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict: When A Win Is A Loss

January 15, 2016

On January 6, 2016, in a non-precedential decision, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Court”) affirmed the trial court’s denial of the plaintiffs’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and their motion for a new trial, finding that the trial court properly deter[...]

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