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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Against Quest Diagnostics

May 11, 2019

In its opinion filed on May 1, 2019, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s granting defendant Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.’s (“Quest Diagnostics”) request to abate and dismiss the plaintiff&[...]

New York Appellate Court Orders Defendant Hospital To Produce Audit Trail

May 10, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) stated in its Decision & Order dated March 20, 2019: “[a]though [the defendant hospital] argued that the audit trail may contain information that would not be[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Applies One Satisfaction Rule In Affirming Dismissal Of Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

May 8, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, in its opinion filed on April 29, 2019 stated, “When multiple tortfeasors contribute to a plaintiff’s injuries, the plaintiff may choose how to structure his or her litigation[...]

Today’s 3,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

May 7, 2019

Today, we celebrate a great achievement – our 3,000th consecutive daily blog posting! Yes, for 3,000 days in a row, we have posted to the blog on our website, www.medicalmalpracticelawyers.com. All of our past (and future) blog postings are fully searchable by word or phrase – it’s[...]

$24.5M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Death Shortly After Giving Birth

May 6, 2019

On April 17, 2019, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $24.5 million in favor of the family of a 34-year-old mother of three older children who died shortly after giving birth to her fourth child. The Florida medical malpractice jury deliberated for about two hou[...]

$3.8M California Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman In Coma Since 2015

May 4, 2019

The family of a woman who was 33-years-old when she suffered cardiac arrest in the defendant hospital’s emergency room on February 25, 2015, and has been in a coma ever since, has agreed to settle the California medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed in October 2016, for $3.8 million. The [...]

Missouri Appellate Court Rules That Two Medical Malpractice Policy Limits Applied To Medical Malpractice Settlement

May 2, 2019

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division One (“Missouri Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on April 23, 2019, held that “the undisputed facts in this case demonstrate Appellants’ claims are subject to two Liability Limits under the terms of the Policy.” [...]

$22.5M Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Settlement For 6-Week-Old’s Brain Damage

April 29, 2019

The Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund reportedly has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a Wisconsin medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a resident physician who was providing anesthesia services during surgery on a 6-week-old boy at UW Health’s American Family Chil[...]

$110M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Properly Treat Asthma Attack

April 26, 2019

On April 12, 2019, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $110.6 million in favor of a 48-year-old New York medical malpractice plaintiff who suffered a massive brain bleed that left her with slurred speech and confined to a wheelchair due to the defendants’ [...]

$12.25M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pathologist’s Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Due To Slide Mix Up

April 19, 2019

Earlier in April 2019, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $12.25 million for the plaintiffs in an Iowa medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a pathologist mixed up the slides of tissue samples taken from the plaintiff and from a man who had prostate cancer[...]

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Are A Curse To Both Health Care Providers And Patients

April 16, 2019

Kaiser Health News (KHN) recently reported in an article entitled Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong the results of “a months-long joint investigation by KHN and Fortune has found that instead of streamlining medicine, the government’s EHR [Electronic Health Re[...]

$2.35M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delayed Diagnosis Of Aortic Aneurysm

April 8, 2019

On March 6, 2019, three defendant physicians agreed to settle a medical malpractice case in which they were alleged to have failed to timely diagnose and treat a hospital patient’s aortic aneurysm in the emergency department, which led to his death. The defendant emergency room attending physi[...]

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