Missouri medical malpractice verdict Archives

$48.1M Missouri Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 16, 2025

On March 25, 2025, a Missouri medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $48.1 million in favor of the parents of a baby that suffered profound injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence during his birth. The Missouri birth injury jury awarded $28.1 million i[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Overturns Punitive Damages Award In Opioid-Prescribing Medical Malpractice Case

September 26, 2024

Gregory Frost (“Frost”) claimed he became addicted to opioids due to the negligence of PCRMC Medical Group, Inc., d/b/a Phelps Health Medical Group (“Medical Group”). A jury found that Frost incurred compensatory damages in the amount of $200,000, that comparative fault for said damages was [...]

$8.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Permanent Bowel Injury Due To Delay In Treatment

April 30, 2024

In 2016, the plaintiff had surgery on her lower back. That night, her daughter found her unconscious on the floor of her bathroom. The plaintiff was transported by ambulance to the emergency room, where she complained of severe abdominal pain. As her condition continued to worsen, she was sent to th[...]

$3.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

July 21, 2021

On May 29, 2021, a Missouri medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict of almost $3.2 million in favor of the parents of a one-year-old who died three hours after he was seen in an urgent care clinic at CoxHealth Hospital in Branson, Missouri, on June 5, 2017. The urgent care clini[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Judgment Reduced From $12.8 M To $9.6M

May 11, 2020

A Missouri medical malpractice jury had awarded $12,820,990 to a 57-year-old man in his Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors and others for the injuries the man sustained that the jury determined in November 2017 were due to medical negligence in failing to timely diagnose and tr[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Upholds $12.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failire To Timely Diagnose Mesenteric Ischemia

October 14, 2019

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Four (“Missouri Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on October 1, 2019, affirmed a Missouri medical malpractice jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $14,245,545 that was reduced to $12,820,990 because the jury[...]

Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Involving Department of Veterans Affairs Ends In Defense Verdict

October 11, 2018

On September 10, 2018, a federal judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri found in favor of the defendant, The United States, in a federal tort claim action involving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The plaintiff had alleged in his Federal Tort Claims[...]

$28.9M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Wilson’s Disease

March 24, 2017

On March 3, 2017, a Missouri medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against her primary care physician in the amount of $28,911,000.00 after a nine-day trial of the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim that the defendant physician negligently failed to dia[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Denies Post-Judgment Interest On Medical Malpractice Verdicts

October 17, 2016

In its opinion filed on October 4, 2016, the Supreme Court of Missouri (“Missouri Supreme Court”) held that the plaintiff was not entitled to post-judgment interest on the Missouri medical malpractice verdict in his favor in the amount of $883,000 (the Missouri medical malpractice jury a[...]

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