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Today We Celebrate Our 2,500th Consecutive Daily Medical Malpractice Blog Posting

December 23, 2017

When we started blogging nearly seven years ago, we did not plan to post blogs every day, for 2,500 consecutive days. We could not have fathomed that there would be 2,500 topics related to medical malpractice that would keep us busy posting, day in and day out. In deciding what the subject should be[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Applies General Verdict Rule In Affirming Nearly $7.9M Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 18, 2017

The December 1, 2017 majority opinion of the Appellate Court of Illinois First District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) upheld the $7,884,761.76 medical malpractice judgment entered against the medical malpractice defendants despite finding that the trial court erroneously denied the defend[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Decides Claim Involving Injury To 86-Year-Old In ICU Caused By Hot Coffee Was A Health Care Liability Claim

October 31, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Knoxville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on September 28, 2017 that the trial court did not err in dismissing the plaintiff’s lawsuit alleging that an 86-year-old patient who was recovering from surgery in the intensive [...]

$40M Rhode Island Medical Malpractice Verdict For Loss Of Leg Due To Medical Negligence

September 25, 2017

An eight-person Rhode Island medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $40 million on September 21, 2017 in favor of a 62-year-old man who lost his leg due to medical malpractice at Rhode Island Hospital, which amount will be increased to $62 million when interest is added in. T[...]

$12.5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Negligent Heart Surgery On Newborn

August 9, 2017

A Pennsylvania hospital and several physicians have reached a medical malpractice settlement with the family of a severely injured newborn that will pay a minimum of $12.5 million. The settlement will result in an initial cash payment in the amount of $8.3 million, with the medical malpractice defen[...]

$5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Hip Replacement Surgery

August 7, 2017

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on July 21, 2017 in an amount just over $5 million after a two-week trial, finding that the defendants’ medical negligence involving a man’s hip replacement surgery resulted in his death. The man had [...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says Physician’s Obligation To Obtain Informed Consent Is Non-Delegable

July 13, 2017

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held in a case it decided on June 20, 2017 that a physician’s duty to provide information to a patient sufficient to obtain her informed consent is non-delegable: “we hold that a physician canno[...]

$870K Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Removal Of Wrong Testicle

July 6, 2017

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a 54-year-old man $870,000 as a result of his surgeon removing the wrong testicle. The defendant surgeon was supposed to remove the man’s right testicle, which was atrophied and scarred due to a previous injury and was painful and half the size o[...]

Drug And Medical Device Companies Paid $8,180,000,000 To 631,000 Physicians For Travel, Research, Speaking Fees, And Meals In 2016

July 5, 2017

Open Payments is a federal program, required by the Affordable Care Act, that collects information about the payments drug and device companies make to physicians and teaching hospitals for things like travel, research, gifts, speaking fees, and meals. It also includes ownership interests that physi[...]

Texas Physician, Pharmacist, And Patient Recruiter Sentenced For Oxycodone Conspiracy

April 23, 2017

A 77-year-old physician, a 51-year-old pharmacist, and a 63-year-old man described as a patient recruiter, all of whom are Houston, Texas residents, were sentenced to federal prison on April 3, 2017 for their respective roles in an illegal conspiracy involving prescription oxycodone pills in the Hou[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Paid On Behalf Of U.S. Physicians Declined By 55.7%

March 30, 2017

A study published online on March 27, 2017 in the respected medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that medical malpractice claims paid on behalf of physicians in the United States fell by 55.7% from 1992 to 2014. However, the mean compensation amounts paid for physician medical malpractice cl[...]

$28.9M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Wilson’s Disease

March 24, 2017

On March 3, 2017, a Missouri medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against her primary care physician in the amount of $28,911,000.00 after a nine-day trial of the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim that the defendant physician negligently failed to dia[...]

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