New Jersey medical malpractice verdict Archives

$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 Medical Malpractice Defendant Liable For 100% Of Verdict Despite Jury Finding Him 60% At Fault

November 24, 2025

After a New Jersey medical malpractice trial in which a jury found defendant Dr. Joseph Popovich (Popovich) liable for sixty percent of plaintiffs’ damages, he moved to mold the verdict to reduce his liability consistent with Burt v. W.Jersey Health Sys., 339 N.J. Super. 296 (App. Div. 2011). [...]

$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 [...]

$2M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Tendon Repair Surgery

June 7, 2025

On January 21, 2025, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,040,000 in favor of a man who suffered nerve injury and required further surgery after undergoing a torn tendon repair surgery. The New Jersey medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that during the Feb[...]

$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 Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke Victim With Factor V Leiden

May 31, 2020

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated March 12, 2020, held, “Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to plaintiff, and granting him all reasonable inferences, we conclude that plaintiff presented sufficient e[...]

$17M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Brain Damage Verdict For Child Taken Off Ventilator Too Soon

November 11, 2017

A New Jersey medical malpractice jury found in favor of a now 16-year-old in the amount of $17 million on October 26, 2017, after a six-week medical malpractice trial, unanimously (8 to 0) finding that when she was 7-years-old and in the defendant hospital following surgery, she was removed from a v[...]

$6M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Paramedic For Wrongful Death

October 13, 2017

On September 26, 2017, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded over $6 million to the estate of a 20-year-old woman who died seven days after giving birth to a premature baby, after finding that the paramedic who transported the woman from home to the hospital failed to properly intubate her o[...]

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