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Indiana Appellate Court Rules Negligent Credentialing Claim Requires Underlying Medical Malpractice Claim

January 19, 2024

Jonathan Cavins was a pediatrician who was convicted of two counts of felony child molesting, one count of felony sexual misconduct with a minor, and two counts of felony child seduction for his commission of sexual acts on several male teenage patients, including John Doe II, while he was employed [...]

Study Describes Role Of Hospital Diagnostic Errors That Lead To ICU Admissions Or Death In The Hospital

January 16, 2024

A study published on January 8, 2024 in JAMA Network entitled Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care investigated how often diagnostic errors happen in adult patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) or die in the hospital, what ca[...]

$850K Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death From Too Much Propofol During Colonoscopy

November 24, 2023

On May 5, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice claim was settled for $850,000 for the death of a woman who was given too much propofol over too short a period of time during a colonoscopy procedure, resulting in her death. The woman had been on dialysis for more than two years. She also had diabetes[...]

Illinois Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleges Physician, Walgreens Responsible For Patient’s Death Due To Toxic Amount Of Prednisone

November 5, 2023

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a physician who prescribed a patient a toxic amount of Prednisone and against Walgreens, which filled and then refilled the erroneous Prednisone prescription, for the patient’s death allegedly due to the overdose of Prednisone. The patient report[...]

Texas Supreme Court Rules Drug-Testing Company Owed No Duty To Tested Employee

October 29, 2023

An issue recently decided by the Supreme Court of Texas was whether a third-party entity hired by an employer to collect and test an employee’s biological samples for drugs owes the employee a common-law duty to perform its services with reasonable care. The Supreme Court of Texas held in its opin[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Finds Claim Against Residential Treatment Facility Covered Under Medical Malpractice Act

October 22, 2023

Shane Willingham alleged in his breach of contract complaint, “In the early morning of July 25, 2020, an Anderson Center employee located Plaintiff in the room of a female resident. On this and prior occasions the two had had sex. Their relationship should have been impossible had The Anderson[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Against Emergency Department Trainees

October 14, 2023

Patients brought to hospital emergency departments are often unable to choose the medical staff that will treat them. In true emergency situations, it is unrealistic to assume that a patient or the family who arrives with the patient will be able to ask questions regarding the qualifications and exp[...]

Medical Malpractice Reports By State 2022

October 8, 2023

Becker’s ASC Review reported the following medical malpractice report statistics by U.S. state for 2022 through the first three months of 2023 based on data from the National Practitioner Data Bank: Source National Practitioners Data Bank The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a web-bas[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Rules State Immune From Lawsuit Alleging Failure To Report Results Of Routine Newborn Testing

October 1, 2023

N.J.S.A. 26:2-110 and -111, as they existed in June 2001 at the time of Jayson Sugden’s birth, required the New Jersey Department of Health to test all infants born in New Jersey for “hypothyroidism, galactosemia, phenylketonuria, and other preventable biochemical disorders which may cau[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Tribunal’s Decision, Allows Hospital Fall Claim

September 23, 2023

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Massachusetts Appellate Court”) Memorandum And Order Pursuant To Rule 23 dated June 2, 2023 held: “The findings of the tribunal are to be replaced by the decision of this court that the offer of proof of the plaintiff, if properly s[...]

3M Announces Settlement Of Combat Arms Earplug Litigation Claims

September 1, 2023

3M Announces Settlement Of Combat Arms Earplug Litigation Claims: On August 29, 2023, 3M announced that it has reached an agreement with the court-appointed negotiating plaintiffs’ counsel to resolve the Combat Arms Earplug litigation against Aearo Technologies (Aearo) and 3M. Under the agree[...]

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Medical Malpractice Case

August 24, 2023

Defense Verdict In Pediatric Necrotizing Pancreatitis Case: In June 2023, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after four hours of deliberations and a four-day trial in favor of the defendant gastroenterologist who was the attending physician for a nine-year-old patient who went i[...]

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