Pennsylvania medical malpractice attorney Archives

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Improper Opening Statement Requires New Trial

November 26, 2025

On April 6, 2021, 72-year-old Ronald Lewis underwent open vascular surgery at Reading Hospital for the purpose of repairing abdominal aortic aneurisms. Dr. Robert Q. Luo performed the surgery, and soon after it was completed,Lewis reported severe pain, swelling, and discoloration in his left foot th[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Allegedly Failed To Properly Diagnose Patient’s Impending Stroke

April 3, 2025

Fifty-five-year-old David Rimsek was rushed to Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital in mid-January 2025 because he was having a right-sided sharp headache, pain that would not go away, nausea, vomiting, and left-sided tingling. Penn Highlands Mon Valley is a designated primary stroke center, advertisi[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Rules Expert’s Notes Not Discoverable In Medical Malpractice Case

February 6, 2025

Plaintiffs in a Pennsylvania medical lawsuit alleged that the defendant hospital and others negligently monitored the plaintiff while providing anesthesia during a surgery on August 28, 2017. They further alleged that the defendants failed to monitor and maintain the plaintiff’s blood pressure[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $3,364,017.40 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misinterpreted EKG

August 3, 2019

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”), in its Memorandum Opinion filed on July 19, 2019, affirmed a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3,364,017.40, stating, “It is undisputed that in 2014,[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Against Quest Diagnostics

May 11, 2019

In its opinion filed on May 1, 2019, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) reversed the trial court’s granting defendant Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc.’s (“Quest Diagnostics”) request to abate and dismiss the plaintiff&[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Rules Spilling Of Acid On Child Would Be Medical Malpractice Claim, Not Ordinary Negligence

September 3, 2018

The August 9, 2018 non-precedential decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) ruled that the plaintiff’s allegation that a dermatology physician’s assistant’s (“PA”) alleged spilling of acid on a seven-year-old’s s[...]

Pennsylvania Superior Court Declares PA Wrongful Birth Law Unconstitutional

November 19, 2012

On November 14, 2012, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania declared that the Pennsylvania statute prohibiting causes of action for wrongful birth and wrongful life (42 Pa.C.S.A. § 8305) was unconstitutional because the manner in which § 8305 was enacted violated the “single-subject rule” cont[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Brain Injury After Surgery

June 23, 2012

On June 19, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $1.1 million for an 11-month-old who suffered brain injury shortly after surgery to remove his tonsils, adenoids, and to place tubes in his ears. The surgery was recommended to treat the little boy’s sleep apnea, which caused h[...]

Large Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Heart Condition

June 5, 2012

On May 31, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded the five young surviving children of a 38-year-old man $6.4 million as a result of alleged medical malpractice that resulted in the man’s death. The $6.4 million verdict included $5.5 million for the loss of guidance, tutelage[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Cases Level Off After Six Years Of Decline

May 15, 2012

On May 7, 2012, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a report regarding medical malpractice cases filed during calendar year 2011 as compared to the prior six years. For 2011, there were 1,528 medical malpractice cases filed compared to 1,491 for 2010. In 2009, there were 1,533 medical malpractic[...]

Pennsylvania Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 18, 2012

On February 17, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a former Pennsylvania prison inmate $312,000 for the injuries he sustained as a result of the alleged medical malpractice committed by a for-profit company that had contracted with the State Correctional Institution in Albion, Pe[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Expands Medical Malpractice Recoveries

February 10, 2012

On December 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision in a medical malpractice case in which it considered “whether a cause of action for negligent infliction of emotional distress, hereinafter NIED, exists where the emotional distress results from a “negligent breach of[...]

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