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Michigan Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Claim Involving Nurse Practitioner

April 22, 2024

Background Facts In June 2019, Steven John Ahearn (decedent) underwent a surgical procedure called a lumbar laminectomy. During this procedure, the surgeon, who was not a party to the Michigan medical malpractice case, placed a drain tube in decedent to allow for the drainage of postoperative fluids[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Discusses Effect Of Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy On His Medical Malpractice Case

December 5, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated October 15, 2020: “it is undisputed that plaintiffs claimed an exemption for this medical malpractice claim when they filed their petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without obje[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Nurse Practitioner With Regard To Timeliness Of Medical Malpractice Claim

December 14, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated November 21, 2019, reversed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant nurse practitioner (“NP”), finding that there was a genuine issue of material fact as to w[...]

New Study Finds Medical Malpractice Allegations Against Nurse Practitioners Similar To Physicians

April 2, 2018

A recent study entitled “Nurse Practitioner Closed Claims Study” involving 67 closed medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners (“NP”) from January 2011 through December 2016 that was published by The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractic[...]

Hawaii Medical Malpractice Case Settled For Unnecessary Death Of 8-Year-Old

September 27, 2017

A Hawaii medical malpractice case filed after the unnecessary death of an 8-year-old second grader from Hilo, Hawaii was recently settled by the U.S. government for $850,000 (the health care clinic where the child was treated was a federally qualified health center for which the U.S. government was [...]

Does The Increasing Prevalence Of Nurse Practitioners (NP) Providing Primary Care Affect Patient Safety?

June 27, 2017

There are more than 234,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) licensed in the United States, and they practice in every state and in the District of Columbia, according to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). 89.2% of NPs are certified in an area of primary care (62.4% are certified in p[...]

Texas Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Report Deficient

April 19, 2017

In its Memorandum Opinion dated March 30, 2017, the Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi – Edinburg (“Appellate Court”) remanded the Texas medical malpractice case to the trial court to determine whether to grant the plaintiff a thirty-day extension to cure [...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit For Suicide Death

March 2, 2017

The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) issued a decision on February 23, 2017 in which it held that the trial court had erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital attending physician and the defendant outpatient[...]

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