New Hampshire medical malpractice lawyers Archives

New Hampshire Department Of Justice Calls For Greater Transparency For Board Of Medicine

July 17, 2023

Calls For Greater Transparency For Board Of Medicine: The New Hampshire Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reviewed the practices and procedures of the New Hampshire Board of Medicine (“BOM”) during the two-plus decade period from approximately 1994 through 2019 (the “Review[...]

New Hampshire Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record, Including Many Deaths

December 25, 2022

Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record: The Boston Globe reported in a two-part investigative series about a New Hampshire hospital that allegedly shielded a cardiac surgeon despite the surgeon having one of the worst, if not the worst, med[...]

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson To Settle Opioid Claims

December 13, 2022

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson: The New Hampshire Attorney General announced on September 1, 2022 that a settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals/Johnson & Johnson was reached to settle the state’s opioid claims against the company. The company has[...]

New Hampshire Supreme Court Affirms Mental Health Patient’s Rights Were Violated

June 3, 2021

In its opinion dated May 11, 2021, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire (“New Hampshire Supreme Court”) stated: “The plain and ordinary meaning of RSA 135-C:28, I, RSA 135-C:29, I, RSA 135-C:29-a, and RSA 135-C:31, I, read in light of the purpose of RSA chapter 135-C and in the conte[...]

New Hampshire Effort To Modify Unfair Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

October 30, 2013

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee recently voted 9 to 7 to support changing New Hampshire’s “early offer” law in medical malpractice claims that health care lobbyists pushed through the New Hampshire Legislature in 2012. Despite the New Hampshire Governor’s veto[...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Jury Rejects Unanimous Medical Malpractice Panel Decision

June 18, 2013

Earlier this month, a New Hampshire medical malpractice jury rejected the unanimous decision of a New Hampshire medical malpractice panel that had found in favor of a cardiologist and his cardiology practice after they were sued for medical malpractice by the parents of a 37-year-old man who died[...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice “Early Offer” Bill Vetoed

June 24, 2012

On June 20, 2012, New Hampshire’s Governor John Lynch vetoed the nation’s first “early offer” bill that would have made medical malpractice victims responsible to pay the legal fees of defendant health care providers if they rejected an “early offer” to settle t[...]

“Early Offer” Laws: An Attack On Medical Malpractice Victims

June 9, 2012

One of the many attacks by the medical profession, their medical malpractice insurance companies, and their lobbyists on the rights of medical malpractice victims is known as “early offer” laws. “Early Offer” Laws An “early offer” law typically provides a medi[...]

New Hampshire Midwife Settles Medical Malpractice Claims

January 11, 2012

A Concord, New Hampshire midwife, who had voluntarily given up her New Hampshire state license in June, 2010, settled a medical malpractice case filed against her that alleged that her medical negligence caused a newborn to suffer permanent and severe brain injuries that resulted in cerebral pal[...]

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