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Nevada Supreme Court Holds Medical Provider May Be Liable For Patient’s Suicide

August 6, 2025

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada stated in its Opinion filed on June 12, 2025: “In the instant medical malpractice action alleged that a medical provider’s negligence in treating his patient caused the patient to die by suicide. The district court granted summary judgment in favo[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds Hospitals Do Not Owe A Fiduciary Duty To Their Patients In Connection With Medical Treatment

May 30, 2024

LaQuinta Whitley-Murray passed away at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center during a sickle cell crisis. Respondent, on behalf of LaQuinta’s estate and heirs, filed a negligence action against appellant Valley Health Systems, which operates Centennial Hills. A Nevada medical malpractice wr[...]

$47M Nevada Medical Malpractice Verdict For Locked-In Syndrome

February 13, 2023

A Nevada medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman who suffered locked-in syndrome due to the medical negligence of the defendants after a five-week trial that ended last week. Because the verdict included $35 million for the woman’s unimaginable pain and suffering (non[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Remands Nursing Home Claim To Determine If It Was For Medical Negligence

January 18, 2023

Nursing Home Claim: Was It Medical Negligence? – In its opinion dated October 27, 2022, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) stated: “In this opinion we both clarify the relationship between Nevada’s professional negligence statutes, NRS Cha[...]

Doctor At Nevada Medical Spa Has License Suspended For Alleged Propofol Misuse

September 4, 2021

The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners (Board) has summarily suspended the licenses to practice medicine of Maryanne DeForest Phillips, M.D., and Tammy Lynn Hankins, PA-C, related to numerous alleged violations of Nevada’s Medical Practice Act that have tak[...]

$29.5M Nevada Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligently Treated Anaphylaxis Leading To Brain Damage

May 1, 2021

On April 9, 2021, a Nevada medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $29.5 million, which included $15 million in compensatory damages for past and future pain and suffering, $12.5 million for future medical expenses, and $2 million for the plaintiff[...]

Nevada Plastic Surgeon Sued For Necrotizing Fasciitis After Procedure Done In His Office

December 8, 2020

A Nevada plastic surgeon with several pending medical malpractice cases against him is being sued by a 23-year-old woman who suffered scarring on 40% of her body due to necrotizing fasciitis that she alleges she acquired during procedures the plastic surgeon performed in his office. The plastic surg[...]

Las Vegas Delayed CPR Brain Damage Medical Malpractice Case Settled During Jury Deliberations

December 22, 2019

A Las Vegas, Nevada medical malpractice jury was in the middle of deliberations when the parties reached a settlement in the Nevada medical malpractice lawsuit that sought $63 million in compensatory damages for a woman who claimed that she suffered serious permanent brain damage because the hospita[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Rules Hospital May Be Liable For Physician’s Medical Negligence Under Theory Of Ostensible Agency

January 7, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 28, 2017 that while the general rule of vicarious liability is that an employer is liable for the negligence of its employee but not the negligence of an independent contractor, an exc[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Hears Medical Malpractice Juror Bias Appeal

November 3, 2013

On October 16, 2013, the Supreme Court of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) heard oral arguments in an appeal of a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendant where one of the jurors had previously exchanged business referrals with the husband of the defendant’s paralegal.[...]

Hospital Rape Case Settled

October 3, 2013

A woman who was allegedly raped by a male certified nursing assistant in a Las Vegas, Nevada hospital in 2008 reached a confidential settlement of her lawsuit against the hospital on September 20, 2013 (the case was scheduled to begin trial on September 23, 2013). The woman was one of six women who[...]

Nevada $500 Million Punitive Damages Verdict For Hepatitis C

April 30, 2013

On April 9, 2013, a Nevada jury returned a punitive damages award in the amount of $500 million against two affiliates of UnitedHealth Group ($270 million against Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million against Sierra Health Services), arising out of a hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada caused by the [...]

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