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$1.25M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Nurse Practitioner’s Delayed Diagnose Of Endometrial Cancer

February 19, 2025

On October 30, 2024, a Massachusetts medical malpractice lawsuit against a nurse practitioner who allegedly negligently delayed the diagnosis of endometrial cancer in a 55-year-old patient was resolved during meditation after the woman’s primary care physician had been deposed. The amount of t[...]

Is My Doctor Responsible For Their Nurse Practitioner’s Malpractice?

January 20, 2025

In many states, nurse practitioners (NPs) are required to be supervised by physicians: however, twenty-seven states have eliminated the requirement that NPs be supervised by physicians (for example, Kansas (since 2022), New York (since 2022), and Utah (since 2023) no longer require supervision for a[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Due To Unsigned Affidavit

August 8, 2023

Missouri Medical Malpractice Law Court Affirms Dismissal Of Case Due To Unsigned Affidavit: Section 538.225, which governs the requirements for filing medical malpractice claims, states: “In any action against a health care provider for damages for personal injury or death on account of the re[...]

$18 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer In 22-Year-old

July 27, 2022

$18 Million Verdict For Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer: After a two-week trial that ended on July 22, 2022, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $18 million in favor of a now 26-year-old woman whose breast cancer went undiagnosed because her health care provider [...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Finds No Fraudulent Concealment, Applies Statute Of Repose To Medical Malpractice Claim

June 6, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 11, 2020 in a Tennessee medical malpractice case, “Based on the undisputed facts, we conclude that Ms. Tucker’s claims against these defendants are barred by the statut[...]

Federal Appeals Court Remands District Court’s Medical Malpractice Verdict For Proper Consideration of Plaintiff’s Comparative Negligence

December 1, 2019

In its opinion dated November 7, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) remanded a federal judge’s nearly $30 million medical malpractice verdict under the Federal Tort Claims Act in favor of the plaintiff, finding that the fede[...]

$6.1M Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 19-Year-Old In ER

April 6, 2019

An Oklahoma medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs on March 21, 2019, awarding the family of a 19-year-old who died as a result of hospital medical malpractice in the emergency room $6,190,000 for the teenager’s wrongful death. The Underlying Facts While attending college du[...]

$20.6M Minnesota Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Postpartum Death

September 18, 2017

A Minnesota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on August 28, 2017 for the death of a 30-year-old mother who had given birth to her first child in the hospital, and six days later died as a result of sepsis that was undiagnosed in the hospital’s emergency r[...]

Nurse Practitioner Malpractice Statistics

October 5, 2013

A large medical malpractice insurance company recently studied 1,800 reported adverse incidents and claims involving nurse practitioners that were closed between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2011 and subsequently reviewed and analyzed 200 of the claims against nurse practitioners that re[...]

Nurse Practitioner Malpractice And Physician Assistant Malpractice Claims

January 6, 2013

There are 86,500 certified physician assistants (“PAs”) in the United States currently, which is a 100% increase from ten years ago. The number of nurse practitioners (“NPs”) has increased from 111,000 in 2003 to about 155,000 currently. PAs are allowed to prescribe medicat[...]

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