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$15M Indiana Medical Malpractrice Verdict For Misread CT Scan

July 28, 2018

On June 15, 2018, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $15 million ($14 million for the patient and $1 million for her husband) against a radiology group for a radiologist’s negligent misreading of the wife’s CT scan that mi[...]

$29.5M Iowa Medical Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Death From Allergic Reaction To Contrast Dye

July 9, 2018

An Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $29.5 million in favor of the family of a woman who died on June 9, 2015 as a result of an allergic reaction to the contrast dye administered to her during a CT scan. The June 13, 2018 Iowa medical malpractice verdict included [&[...]

$135M Detroit Medical Malpractice Verdict For Permanent Paralysis After Scoliosis Surgery

July 6, 2018

A 10-year-old girl had rods surgically implanted in her spine in 2010 to treat scoliosis that were allegedly improperly implanted and thereby led to problems with her limbs, bowel, and bladder that were not timely diagnosed or properly treated. As a result, she became a quadriplegic. A Detroit medic[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Overturns $10M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 7, 2018

On May 18, 2018, the Supreme Court of Alabama overturned a $10 million medical malpractice verdict, concluding that “the facts related to the jury regarding prior acts and omissions by WBMC [the defendant hospital] were entirely irrelevant for the purpose of curative admissibility, were highly[...]

$100K Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Sponge Left In Patient

April 29, 2018

An Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded $100,000 in an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death case against a surgeon who admittedly left a surgical sponge in a patient after performing surgery. The patient died fifteen months after the surgery and her family claimed in its Ohio medical malpractice[...]

$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[...]

$18M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman Paralyzed Due To Medical Negligence

March 30, 2018

On March 6, 2018, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $18 million in favor of the 58-year-old plaintiff who walked into a hospital but left in a wheelchair, having suffered paralysis that she alleged was due to the medical negligence of the medical providers resp[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reduces Medical Malpractice Verdict For Future Damages By $15M Because Plaintiff Died During Jury Deliberation

February 23, 2018

The Illinois Appellate Court, Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) in its decision filed on February 6, 2018 held that the Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $22 million to the plaintiff must be reduced by $15 million, the portion of the award for future damages, [...]

$645K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Elective Back Surgery

February 15, 2018

On January 12, 2018, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that a 64-year-old man died from heart complications following elective back surgery in October 2013 that was intended to address an injury [...]

$8.5M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrongful Removal Of Thyroid Gland

February 12, 2018

On January 17, 2018, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $8.5 million in favor of the plaintiff involving a claim that the defendant surgeon performed unnecessary thyroid removal surgery on her that left her with permanent injuries. The 18-year-old woman had a[...]

Defense Verdict For Abortion Doctor Who Left Part Of Baby’s Skull In Woman’s Uterus

February 1, 2018

On January 22, 2018, a Colorado medical malpractice jury found in favor of an abortion doctor who performed a late-term abortion on the plaintiff and left more than a half of the baby’s skull imbedded in her uterus. The 79-year-old late-term abortion doctor was accused of negligently performin[...]

Rhode Island Supreme Court Vacates Trial Court’s Granting Of New Trial To Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

January 22, 2018

The Rhode Island Supreme Court held in its decision dated January 9, 2018 that the trial judge had erred in granting a new trial to a Rhode Island medical malpractice plaintiff where the jury found the defendant physician negligent but that his negligence was not the proximate cause of the plaintiff[...]

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