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Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Dye Used During Catheterization

June 7, 2012

During early May, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in Baltimore City returned a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of the two surviving sons of a woman who had a fatal allergic reaction to the dye used during her cardiac catheterization procedure. The two son[...]

New Jersey $6.3 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Abdominal Surgery

June 6, 2012

On June 1, 2012, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $6.3 million in favor of a 48-year-old woman who in February, 2007 had surgery involving her ovaries that ended up injuring her bowel that was not recognized until after the surgery was completed. As a resul[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Death During A Threesome

June 4, 2012

A Georgia medical malpractice jury on May 29, 2012 awarded $3 million to the survivors of a 31-year-old husband/father of two after a seven-day trial involving allegations that the man’s cardiologist committed medical malpractice that caused or contributed to his death that occurred during a t[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Cardiac Catheterization

June 3, 2012

On May 7, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1.2M in favor of a woman who had undergone a cardiac catheterization (a procedure whereby a doctor inserts a wire tool and catheter through the patient’s groin and manipulates the catheter up the descendi[...]

U.S. Medical Malpractice Payments Reported By Physicians For 2001 – 2011

June 2, 2012

The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) has issued a report on various aspects of the medical malpractice payments reports that were filed with the NPDB by physicians who made medical malpractice payments from 2001 through 2011. Our two previous blog postings addressed some of th[...]

NPDB Medical Malpractice Payments Statistics For 2001 – 2011

June 1, 2012

The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) has published the official medical malpractice payments statistics for the U.S. for 2001 through 2011. The statistics are for medical malpractice payments made on behalf of “physicians,” which include medical doctors (MDs), physi[...]

Official Medical Malpractice Insurance Statistics For 1991 through 2011

May 31, 2012

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) recently released its Countrywide Summary Of Medical Malpractice Insurance Calendar Years 1991 – 2011 for the entire United States. As stated on its website, the NAIC “is the U.S. standard-setting and regulatory [...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Fall From Operating Room Table

May 30, 2012

On May 22, 2012, a Connecticut medical malpractice case was filed on behalf of an elderly woman who had a pacemaker implanted in a Connecticut hospital during February, 2010, after which she fell from the operating room table, causing her to suffer a traumatic brain injury, a fractured pelvis, a f[...]

$120 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 29, 2012

On May 25, 2012, a Bronx, New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of approximately $120 million against three local hospitals and a neurologist (the jury found one hospital to be 50% liable, another hospital to be 40% liable, the third hospital to[...]

Our Thoughts On Memorial Day 2012

May 28, 2012

On this Memorial Day 2012 in the United States, we wish to offer our sincere and ever-lasting thanks and appreciation to our men and women who have served, and continue to serve, our great country. Without the sacrifices, courage, passion, and dedication of our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, b[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Reform Proposal

May 26, 2012

Earlier this week, the Michigan Senate debated a medical malpractice reform proposal that would make it more difficult for the innocent victims of medical malpractice to recover damages from those who commit medical malpractice in Michigan. Senate Bill No. 1116 provides that a health care professi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice: Why Are Hospitals Referring Malpractice Victims To Lawyers?

May 25, 2012

It has been reported that three of Maryland’s largest health care systems routinely attempt to refer victims of medical malpractice that occurred in their hospitals to local medical malpractice lawyers who are on lists of Maryland medical malpractice lawyers that the health care systems mainta[...]

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