New Jersey medical malpractice lawyers Archives

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Establish Causal Connection In Liver Cancer Case

October 4, 2026

The Superior Court of New Jersey held in its July 23, 2026 Per Curiam: “the trial court granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiff’s complaint after concluding that plaintiff’s medical expert, Santa Nandi, M.D., failed to establish a sufficient c[...]

$10.5M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For Multiple Failures To Timely Diagnose Lung Cancer

September 30, 2026

It has been reported that Summit Medical Group will pay $10.5 million to settle the New Jersey medical malpractice wrongful death claims arising out of the alleged failure of four of its physicians to timely diagnose lung cancer in a patient over a three-year period, who subsequently died from the d[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Pro-Se Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To File Affidavit Of Merit

April 9, 2026

On July 16, 2024, plaintiff, as a self-represented litigant, filed a handwritten New Jersey medical malpractice complaintagainst defendants. In the accompanying Case Information Statement (CIS), plaintiff checked the “yes” box, indicating her assertion of a professional malpractice claim[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Case Should Not Be Transferred To New Jersey

March 24, 2026

Elizabeth Duxbury (“Elizabeth”) and Brian Duxbury (“Brian”) alleged that while treating Elizabeth, Rothman Urgent Care referred her to Dr. Axelrod for further treatment. Elizabeth saw Dr. Axelrod at the Egg Harbor, New Jersey location of The Rothman Institute of New Jersey (“RINJ”) on Ju[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Immunity For New Jersey Officials Regarding Nursing Home COVID-19 Claims

March 20, 2026

In March 2020, New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy issued an executive order declaring the COVID-19 pandemic a public health emergency. Three weeks later, New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Judith M. Persichilli issued a directive to implement the executive order. To ensure hospital bed c[...]

$3.36M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For 11 Unnecessary Surgeries On Leg

July 30, 2025

On March 28, 2025, a New Jersey woman who was left disfigured after eleven unnecessary surgeries on her left leg settled her claims against the surgeon and the surgery center where the unnecessary surgeries took place (as well as its CEO), for $3.36 million. The defendant surgeon settled the claims [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Possible Common Law Cause Of Action For Violation Of New Jersey Declaration of Death Act

May 28, 2025

While hospitalized at Hackensack University Medical Center, decedent Pamela Wright was declared brain dead and died shortly after defendants removed her from life-supporting devices. Plaintiff Jermaine Spence (Wright’s son) instituted suit against defendants individually and as the administrat[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Holds Non-Party In Medical Malpractice Case Should Not Be On Verdict Form, But Is Subject To Allocation Of Fault

May 1, 2025

After the death of Crystal Walcott Spill, her estate and beneficiaries brought a New Jersey wrongful death suit against doctors who treated her. Spill was under the care of Jenny T. Diep, M.D., a rheumatologist based in New York. Spillalso received unrelated care from Jacob E. Markovitz, M.D., a gyn[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Explains Same Specialty Medical Expert Requirement In Medical Malpractice Cases

March 8, 2025

The New Jersey Supreme Court held in its January 22, 2024 decision in a New Jersey medical malpractice case: “When a defending physician practices in more than one specialty and the treatment involved falls within any of that physician’s specialty areas, then an AOM from a physician speciali[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Own Testimony Doomed Her Case

January 15, 2025

Plaintiff Judy Woody appealed from the trial court’s order of judgment dismissing her New Jersey medical malpractrice complaint. Plaintiff had filed a complaint against defendants Horatio Daub, M.D. and Virtua Family Medicine Center, alleging Daub deviated from the standard of care for failing[...]

$11M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Perforated Esophagus Following Surgery

December 23, 2024

A New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded a 66-year-old woman who suffered a perforated esophagus that was not timely diagnosed postoperatively $10 million, and her late husband $1 million for his loss of consortium, on September 10, 2024. The jury found the defendant medical practice negligent [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Reinstates Attorney’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleging Her Wrongful Involuntary 12-Day Commitment To Hospital’s Psychiatric Unit

November 3, 2024

Background Facts On June 14, 2020, plaintiff’s sister had plaintiff, an attorney, transported to Hackensack University Medical Center’s (HUMC) emergency room for treatment of right hip pain that prevented her from ambulating. During her treatment at the hospital, information was erroneou[...]

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