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Virginia Court Disallows Discovery Of Medical Malpractice Defendant’s Photographs Of Biopsy Slides

June 8, 2020

In a Virginia medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants misdiagnosed the plaintiff with a specific cervical cancer for which she subsequently received treatment, one of the defendants, a pathologist, testified during her deposition that after the lawsuit had been fi[...]

$1,275,000 New Jersey Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Settlement For Misdiagnosed Stomach Cancer

January 22, 2020

A New Jersey medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was recently settled for $1,275,000 for the death of a 34-year-old woman whose stomach cancer allegedly was not diagnosed in time and resulted in her death in 2016. The woman died of stage IV cancer on August 29, 2016. The defendants included a[...]

Former Chief Of Pathology At Arkansas VA Indicted, Including Three Counts Of Involuntary Manslaughter

September 19, 2019

The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Arkansas (“U.S. Attorney”) announced on August 20, 2019 that 53-year-old Robert Morris Levy (“Levy”), who served as the Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medical Services at the Veterans Health Care System[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Orders Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis Case

November 4, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 9, 2018 that the trial court erred in failing to grant summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendants in a case where a surgeon removed a lobe of the plaintiff’s lung after an i[...]

Kansas Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Hospital For Pancreatic Cancer Misdiagnosis, Concealment From Patient

August 21, 2017

On August 1, 2017, a woman who was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer by a hospital pathologist and underwent unnecessary surgery to remove multiple organs due to the misdiagnosis that was concealed from her filed a Kansas medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, the former chair of the ho[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Upholds $1.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Cancer Misdiagnosed As Benign Meningioma

June 7, 2017

The Appellate Court of Illinois Third District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed in its April 24, 2017 opinion, an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $1,727,409.50 to the wife and the estate of a man who died because the defendant neuropathologist who read the biopsy slide[...]

Kansas Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges Pathologist Misdiagnosed Cancer, Leading To Removal Of Healthy Organ

July 14, 2016

A physician employed at a Kansas hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit on July 1, 2016 against his hospital, alleging that the head of the hospital’s pathology department misread a tissue slide as showing cancer that resulted in the patient having a healthy essential organ surgically removed.[...]

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