Minnesota medical malpractice lawyers Archives

Minnesota Appellate Court Holds No Claim For Emotional Injury For Destruction Of Sperm Intended For Fertility Treatments

October 21, 2026

A laboratory under contract to preserve sperm for use in a married couple’s medically assisted effort to conceive a child destroyed the sperm before the designated contract termination. The couple sued the laboratory seeking emotional damages for alleged medical malpractice. The district court dis[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Experts Qualified To Testify In Birth Injury Case

May 27, 2026

Early one morning in November 2020, mother arrived at a hospital of Allina Health System experiencing contractions. The hospital admitted mother, and by 9:40 a.m., mother entered the second stage of labor and began pushing. Thirty minutes later, when child’s head was near crowning, obstetrician Dr[...]

Minnesota Assisted Living Resident Died After Falling And Slowly Asphyxiating, As Staff Stood By

January 24, 2026

An incident report dated March 30, 2025, at 5:33 p.m., indicated ULP-D had been in the assisted living dining room, getting coffee and spoke with residents. Dietary staff (DS)-E informed ULP-D R1 fell off his scooter and was lying across his scooter with his neck being pinched between his scooter an[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Experts’ Differential Diagnosis Methodology Failed To Rule Out Other Causes Of Infant’s Injury

September 2, 2025

Shortly after he was born in May 2013, an echocardiogram revealed that Antonio Ray Seals Jr. (Seals) had a number of medical complications. These included a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with a left to right shunt—a hole in Seals’s heart. Seals also had a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), whic[...]

Minnesota Trial Court Reduces Damages Awarded In Wrongful Conception Medical Malpractice Case

August 26, 2025

In early May 2023, Plaintiffs served their Complaint bringing a claim for medical malpractice against Minnesota Urology P.A. (“MN Urology”). The Complaint alleged that malpractice resulted in Ms. Szlachtowski’s unplanned pregnancy and pled the right to recover various categories of “[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Healthy Kidney Removed Instead Of Diseased Spleen

May 23, 2025

A Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit filed on May 16, 2025 alleges that the Plaintiff’s healthy left kidney was wrongfully removed during surgery that was intended to remove her diseased spleen. The lawsuit states, in part: Rappaport v. Callahan, M.D., Hennepin County District Court, Case N[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To Comply With Expert-Review Affidavit Requirements

March 29, 2025

In a Minnesota medical malpractice action, the plaintiff must serve two affidavits if expert testimony is necessary to prove their claims. Minn. Stat. § 145.682, subd. 2. The first is an affidavit of counsel stating that they reviewed the case with an expert and that, in the expert’s opinion, the[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Applies Specific Personal Jurisdiction To Keep Medical Malpractice Case In Minnesota Court

February 7, 2025

There are two types of personal jurisdiction: general personal jurisdiction and specific personal jurisdiction. General personal jurisdiction relates to contacts unrelated to the litigation including domicile or continuous and systemic contacts with the forum state. Specific personal jurisdiction fo[...]

Minnesota Wrongful Conception Lawsuit Filed

January 6, 2025

A man underwent a vasectomy in 2018 after which a nurse advised him that the post-vasectomy semen sample he provided was negative, but in fact it was positive. His wife became pregnant four years later and gave birth to a healthy child. They then filed a Minnesota wrongful conception lawsuit in 2023[...]

Minnesota Jail Malpractice Case Filed For Death Of Inmate

August 5, 2024

The family of 37-year-old Nickolas Norberg has filed a lawsuit against Stearns County jail and the jail’s health care provider, CentraCare, alleging that medical providers and jail staff failed to properly assess and treat Norberg and ignored his pleas for help following his arrest on October [...]

Minnesota Supreme Court Holds Amount Of Proof Of Causation Necessary In Medical Malpractice Cases Is The Same As In Ordinary Negligence Cases

July 19, 2024

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Laws Minnesota Statutes section 145.682 (2022), subdivision 2, establishes requirements “[i]n an action alleging malpractice, error, mistake, or failure to cure . . . against a health care provider” in which “expert testimony is necessary to establish a prima faci[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Interventional Radiologist Not Qualified To Testify To Standard Of Care Applicable To Vascular Surgeon

July 6, 2024

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in its nonprecedential decision filed on April 29, 2024 involving a Minnesota medical malpractice case alleging that a vascular surgeon committed medical malpractice in his surgical treatment of the plaintiff’s popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES), i[...]

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