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Virginia Supreme Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert Qualified To Give Her Opinions

April 5, 2018

In its opinion filed on February 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Virginia (“Virginia Supreme Court”) ruled that the circuit court abused its discretion when it refused to qualify the Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff’s only proposed expert witness under Code § 8.01-581.20. In a ca[...]

$1.8M North Carolina Medical Malpractice Settlement For Failure To Timely Re-Intubate After Untimely Removal From Ventilator

April 3, 2018

The family of a 30-year-old woman who died after she suffered profound and irreversible brain damage because she was removed from a ventilator too soon following surgery, and attempts to re-intubate her were too late and unsuccessful, have agreed to settle their North Carolina medical malpractice cl[...]

New Study Finds Medical Malpractice Allegations Against Nurse Practitioners Similar To Physicians

April 2, 2018

A recent study entitled “Nurse Practitioner Closed Claims Study” involving 67 closed medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners (“NP”) from January 2011 through December 2016 that was published by The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractic[...]

$6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failing To Order MRIs In Undiagnosed Liver Cancer Case

April 1, 2018

A Philadelphia medical malpractice jury took two-and-a-half hours after a six-day trial that ended on March 6, 2018 to award the estate of a 65-year-old man who died of late-diagnosed liver cancer and his surviving wife the total sum of $6 million. The Philadelphia medical malpractice jury allocated[...]

$24.7M Hawaii Medical Malpractice Verdict By Federal Judge

March 31, 2018

A federal judge in Hawaii awarded a woman and her family $24,743,668.53 in damages in a federal medical malpractice case brought in Hawaii federal court pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, arising out of the treatment the woman received at Tripler Army Medical Center in 2013 when she went to th[...]

Texas Appellate Court Discusses “Wilful And Wanton Negligence” Requirement In Emergency Care Medical Malpractice Cases

March 29, 2018

The Court of Appeals Second District of Texas Fort Worth (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion delivered on March 8, 2018 that the trial court erred by granting summary judgment on the Texas medical malpractice defendants’ no-evidence motion for summary judgment [...]

Lack Of Candor By Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney Leads To New Trial In New Jersey

March 28, 2018

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its opinion approved for publication on March 8, 2018 that the defendant’s medical malpractice attorney’s failure to discharge his duty of candor to the court and to the plaintiff’[...]

$5.7M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Failure To Diagnose Suicide Risk

March 27, 2018

Earlier this month, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $215,000 for economic damages and $5.5 million for noneconomic damages (pain and suffering) against a hospital that allegedly failed to properly diagnose and treat a suicidal p[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Holds Ordinary Negligence Jury Instruction Improper In Medical Malpractice Case

March 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 5, 2018 that a very strong case of medical malpractice does not become a case of ordinary negligence simply due to the egregiousness of the medical malpractice, and the Georgia Court of Appeals erre[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Hospital Nurse High On Meth Caused Baby’s Brain Damage

March 19, 2018

The parents of a baby who suffered brain damage while in the hospital have filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit in which they allege that a hospital nurse was high on methamphetamine when he negligent dislodged the baby’s breathing tube while giving him a bath, which resulted in the bab[...]

Neurosurgeon In Kenya Operated On Brain Of Wrong Patient

March 17, 2018

Wrong patient surgery or wrong site surgery doesn’t just occur (rarely) in the United States. A neurosurgeon in Kenya recently operated on the brain of the wrong patient and the error was not discovered until more than two hours into the delicate operation, when the neurosurgeon was unable to [...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Holds Affidavit From Expert In Related Field Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

March 14, 2018

The South Carolina Supreme Court held in its decision issued on February 28, 2018 that the South Carolina medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert affidavit from a doctor who is not certified in or does not practice in the same area of medicine as the defendant doctor, but otherwise possesses sp[...]

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