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Tennessee Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case

March 1, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on February 9, 2018 in a Tennessee medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff appealed the dismissal of her claim on the basis of the expiration of the statute of limitations and the[...]

$43M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital And Its Doctor On Probation

February 14, 2018

A Texas medical malpractice jury awarded $43.32 million against a hospital and a doctor at the hospital who had been placed on probation by the Texas Medical Board, because the doctor allegedly misdiagnosed and mistreated a hospital patient, causing the plaintiff to suffer severe harm. The Texas med[...]

New York Appellate Court Finds Sufficient Evidence Of Causation In Misdiagnosis Of 9-Year-Old’s Appendicitis

December 20, 2017

In its Memorandum and Order filed on December 7, 2017, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that the New York medical malpractice plaintiffs had submitted sufficient evidence during trial with regard to causation and damages t[...]

Defendant Physician’s Medical License Problems Held Irrelevant In Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case

December 25, 2014

In its decision issued on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) held that the defendant physician’s medical license problems were not admissible in the case it was deciding because evidence of collateral misconduct to show a person’s pro[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.8M In Death Case

August 19, 2014

On August 12, 2014, an Ohio medical malpractice jury, after a two-week trial, awarded the estate of a 30-year-old man who never woke up after surgery, $900,000 for loss of companionship and $900,000 for metal anguish, for a total of $1.8 million. The medical malpractice defendants against whom the [...]

Study Finds 12 Million In U.S. Misdiagnosed Every Year; One-Half Are Potentially Harmed

April 18, 2014

In a study published on April 16, 2014 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Quality & Safety, researchers estimated that 12 million people in the United States are misdiagnosed in an outpatient clinic setting each year (the researchers calculated the incidence of new cases of misdiagnosis i[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against ER Doc For Death of 6-Year-old

February 25, 2014

On February 24, 2014, a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against an emergency room physician and others for the death of a 6-year-old who had been misdiagnosed in the emergency room, was sent home, and died four hours later. The parents’ medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the [...]

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