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Michigan Appellate Court Rules Estate’s Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Was Filed Too Late

September 13, 2022

In a case decided by the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) in an unpublished opinion dated December 21, 2021, the Michigan Appellate Court stated, “This case concerns the interplay among: (1) the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims, M[...]

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict

June 28, 2022

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict: After a three-day trial and ninety minutes of jury deliberations, a Michigan dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in mid-April 2022. The jury awarded $1.375 million for past pain and suffering and related damages, i[...]

University Of Michigan Announces $490M Settlement With Sexual Abuse Plaintiffs

February 11, 2022

The University of Michigan announced on January 10, 2022 that approximately 1,050 claimants who have alleged sexual abuse by the late University of Michigan physician Robert E. Anderson will receive $460 million in settlement of their claims, and an additional $30 million is reserved for future clai[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Pain Management Specialist Not Qualified To Testify Against Anesthesiologist

December 16, 2021

In its unpublished opinion dated November 4, 2021, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held that “the trial court erred by failing to strike plaintiff’s expert witness, Dr. Savala, as he was not qualified to give standard-of-care testimony against [...]

Michigan Pain Doctor Convicted In $100 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

November 8, 2021

A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted a Michigan doctor on September 22, 2021 for his role in masterminding and executing a complex scheme to defraud Medicare and other health insurance programs by administering medically unnecessary spinal injections in exchange for prescript[...]

Michigan Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule To Revive Misread Mammogram Medical Malpractice Case

September 6, 2021

The Michigan Supreme Court, in its decision dated July 30, 2021, held that under Solowy v Oakwood Hosp Corp, 454 Mich 214 (1997), discovering the existence of a medical malpractice claim requires knowing a possible cause of the underlying injury. In the case it was deciding, which was still at the p[...]

Medical Malpractice Or Ordinary Negligence? Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Nursing Home In Choking Death Case

August 3, 2021

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its unpublished opinion dated June 17, 2021: “Turning to plaintiff’s remaining claims, these essentially entail an allegation of negligence premised on the theory that despite defendants’ awareness th[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Discusses Effect Of Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy On His Medical Malpractice Case

December 5, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated October 15, 2020: “it is undisputed that plaintiffs claimed an exemption for this medical malpractice claim when they filed their petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without obje[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Primary Care Physician Not Liable For Patient’s Pregnancy Loss

September 20, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated August 13, 2020, affirmed that the plaintiff failed to establish in her Michigan medical malpractice case that her primary care physician’s failure to contact an OB/GYN that the pl[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Battery And Negligent Supervision Claims Arising From Surgical Removal Of Ovary Were Medical Malpractice Claims

September 3, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated July 23, 2020 that the plaintiff’s battery and negligent supervision claims regarding the allegedly unauthorized removal of her ovary during surgery were sounded in medical mal[...]

$130.5M Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Brain Injury To Two-Month-Old Baby

October 13, 2018

On September 25, 2018, after a three-week trial, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded $130,571,897 to a child who suffered a severe and permanent brain injury due to the lack of oxygen during a medical procedure that resulted in the child suffering cerebral palsy. The Michigan medical malprac[...]

Defense Verdict In Michigan Cauda Equina Syndrome Medical Malpractice Case

July 24, 2018

On June 21, 2018, a Michigan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant neurosurgeon in a Michigan medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff claimed that the defendant neurosurgeon negligently failed to timely diagnose and treat his cauda equina syndrome, leading t[...]

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