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New York Appellate Court Holds Lavern’s Law Did Not Apply To Plaintiff’s Misdiagnosis Of Cancer Claim

May 16, 2022

Plaintiff’s New York medical malpractice complaint alleged that on May 16, 2014, defendant radiologist reviewed a CT scan of plaintiff’s abdomen and pelvis, which revealed nodular densities in the right lower lobe of the lung. The defendant recommended a dedicated CT scan of the chest to[...]

$465K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Kidney Cancer

October 23, 2017

On October 17, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $465,000 to the estate of an 87-year-old man and his wife of 65 years for the failure to diagnose his kidney cancer for two years. After the man’s kidney cancer was finally diagnosed in 2015, he lived for only six wee[...]

South Carolina Appellate Court Reverses Directed Verdict For Physician In Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

September 30, 2017

The South Carolina Court of Appeals stated in its opinion filed on September 14, 2017, “In this highly technical field, where there may not be clear markers indicating by what method a cancer spreads, it was an error of law to direct a verdict in favor of Respondents because Dr. Singer [the [...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

September 3, 2017

A Georgia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that on December 16, 2013 she had a chest x-ray taken as part of her clearance for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm and that the radiologist who read the chest x-ray identified a 7 mm nodule on her left lung for which he recommende[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Determines Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Prove Causation

August 30, 2016

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, held in its unreported opinion filed on August 17, 2016 that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had failed to establish that the 19-day delay from a radiologist’[...]

$28M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Kaiser Permanente For Failure To Order Timely MRI

April 3, 2015

A Los Angeles medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $28,215,278 in favor of a young woman who suffered catastrophic injuries that the jury found was due to the medical negligence of Kaiser Permanente, after a hard-fought medical malpractice trial that lasted four weeks. The yo[...]

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