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Virginia Appellate Court Discusses When Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act Applies

March 19, 2017

In its opinion filed on February 28, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the decision of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”) that the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (“Act”), [...]

California Appellate Court Denies Increase In Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Attorney Fee Due To Fraud

March 13, 2017

In its unpublished decision filed on February 28, 2017, the Court of Appeals of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Five (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s voiding an amended client retainer agreement entered into by the medical malpractice plaint[...]

$46.5M Arkansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Newborn’s Untreated Jaundice Leading To Brain Damage

March 12, 2017

After a two-week trial, an Arkansas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $46.5 million for the severe permanent brain damage suffered by a newborn caused by untreated jaundice at birth that developed into kernicterus. As a result, the now two-and-a-half-year-old child has l[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $11.3M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Toddler’s Meningitis

March 9, 2017

In its opinion filed on February 28, 2017, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the judgment in the amount of $11,391,640.08 that was entered in favor of the Pennsylvania medical malpractice plaintiff, who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on her own behalf a[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Addresses Sufficiency Of Submission To Medical Review Panel

March 8, 2017

In its decision dated February 22, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appellate Court”) addressed the sufficiency of the medical malpractice plaintiffs’ submission to a medical review panel that involved a birth injury claim (i.e., that the defendant health care providers wait[...]

Newly Proposed Federal Legislation Would Eviscerate Medical Malpractice Victim Rights

March 1, 2017

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved on February 28, 2017 by a vote of 18 to 17 proposed federal legislation, H.R. 1215, that if passed by the full House and Senate and signed into law, would drastically harm medical malpractice victims throughout the United States by sever[...]

$45M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Child Abuse

February 27, 2017

On February 17, 2017, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded a now 12-year-old child $45 million against two emergency room physicians for their failure to diagnose his femur fracture in the then 2-month-old infant that was caused by physical abuse by his father. The New Jersey medical malpra[...]

Surgical Forceps Left In Patient For 18 Years

January 14, 2017

When a 54-year-old Vietnamese man had a stomach ache and sought medical care, little did he suspect that an x-ray would find that the cause of his problems was surgical forceps that were apparently left in his abdomen near his colon during emergency surgery that he had eighteen years earlier followi[...]

Two Convicted New Jersey Chiropractors Sued To Recoup Illegal Medical Payments

January 12, 2017

The State of New Jersey and an automobile insurance company have filed a lawsuit against two convicted, unlicensed New Jersey chiropractors seeking to recover medical payments that they received as a result of an alleged illegal scheme involving them, other chiropractors, a medical doctor, a persona[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Death Of 10-Year-Old

January 10, 2017

On December 22, 2016, the parents of a Colorado ten-year-old boy who died on Christmas Eve in 2014, forty minutes after being sent home from the defendant Colorado hospital’s emergency room, filed their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, a physician at th[...]

Study: Physicians’ Political Views Affect Patient Care

October 15, 2016

In a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Yale University researchers suggested, “Just as a patient may seek out a physician of a certain gender to feel more comfortable, the evidence suggests that a patient may need to make [...]

Texas Supreme Court Holds That Post-Mortem Fraud Claim Is A Health Care Liability Claim

June 7, 2016

In its opinion filed on May 20, 2016, the Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) determined that claims that the defendant hospital improperly obtained approval from the decedent’s widow for a private autopsy were health care liability claims. A Texas jury had decided that the [...]

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