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Maine Supreme Judicial Court Affirms $12M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hand Surgeon

March 23, 2019

In its decision filed on March 12, 2019, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a Maine medical malpractice jury’s award of $2 million to a man who had surgery on his right wrist that the jury found to have been negligently performed and the defendant surgeon negligently failed to timely di[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms $9.4M Orthopedic Surgery Malpractice Verdict

March 11, 2019

In its Opinion filed on February 26, 2019, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division One (“Missouri Appellate Court”) affirmed a $9.4 million orthopedic surgery medical malpractice verdict. The Missouri medical malpractice jury had awarded the plaintiff $4,451,875 in compen[...]

$14M Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Stroke Following Cardiac Cathetherization

March 5, 2019

A now 22-year-old woman won her Seattle, Washington medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital and a physcians’ group that alleged that she suffered a stroke shortly after a cardiac catheterization procedure performed at the defendant hospital that was not diagnosed and treated in a timely[...]

Delaware Supreme Court Affirms $3M Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

February 27, 2019

In its decision filed on February 4, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) affirmed a $3 million Delaware birth injury medical malpractce verdict involving a brachial plexus injury suffered by the baby during delivery. The Underlying Facts The plaint[...]

$2.5M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death During Laser Extraction Of Pacemaker

February 26, 2019

On February 22, 2019, an Illinois medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million in favor of the plaintiffs after one hour of jury deliberations to compensate the family of a man who died as a result of the laser extraction procedure used to remove his pac[...]

$4.8M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed And Untreated Spinal Infection Leading To Paralysis

February 16, 2019

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife in excess of $4.8 million on January 25, 2019 after a two-week trial and three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. The jury awarded $183,673 per year for the next 18 years for the man’s medical expenses, $1.23 million for past a[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Affirms Nearly $29M Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 21, 2019

In its opinion issued on January 15, 2019, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) affirmed the $28,911,000 jury verdict in favor of the Missouri medical malpractice plaintiff but reversed the trial court’s determination of the interest rate to be applied to the po[...]

$2.4M Mississippi Medical Malpractice Verdict Against OBGYN For Negligent Treatment Of Ruptured Uterus During Labor

October 4, 2018

On August 31, 2018, a Mississippi medical malpractice jury awarded the plaintiff $2.4 million in compensatory damages against a local OBGYN, who had his hospital privileges suspended in February 2018. The incident for which the Mississippi jury found the defendant OBGYN liable had occurred in 2014. [...]

Idaho Supreme Court Affirms $3.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2018

In its opinion filed on September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (“Idaho Supreme Court”) affirmed an Idaho medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3,775,864.21 (the Idaho medical malpractice jury determined that the plaintiff and her husb[...]

Maryland Court Of Special Appeals Discusses Frye-Reed Test In Affirming Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 19, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, affirmed a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death verdict in its opinion filed on August 29, 2018. The Underlying Facts The decedent was admitted to the def[...]

$32.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Judgment Upheld Where Physician Failed To Document Medical Condition

August 24, 2018

On July 31, 2018, a Massachusetts appellate court upheld a $32.5 million Massachusetts medical malpractice judgment against a physician who failed to document her patient’s incidental medical condition in her medical record. As a result of the negligent failure to document the condition in the[...]

$12M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict In Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Case

August 19, 2018

On July 19, 2018, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $12 million in a medical malpractice case against a radiologist and two family practice physicians for their alleged medical negligence in failing to diagnose a patient[...]

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