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$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 [...]

$1.6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice

May 27, 2022

On May 12, 2022, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict for the plaintiff after a three-day trial and less than three hours of deliberations in the amount of $1.6 million for past and future suffering following a botched surgical procedure. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice [...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Res Ipsa Loquitur Doctrine And Direct Evidence Are Not Mutually Exclusive

January 25, 2022

In its opinion dated December 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Middle District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) stated in a medical malpractice case it was deciding: “res ipsa loquitur boils down to this: Under certain circumstances a plaintiff may turn to the jury and ask[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Granting Of New Trial In Medical Malpractice Case Was Abuse Of Discretion

January 15, 2022

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Eastern District (“Pennsylvania Supreme Court”) held in it opinion dated December 22, 2021 in a medical malpractice case: “the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a mistrial based on a single, unanswered question proposed to an expe[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Upholds $10M Wrongful Death Verdict And $10M Survival Claim Verdict

October 24, 2021

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) upheld a Pennsylvania medical malpractice verdict in the total amount of $20 million ($10 million awarded for the wrongful death claim and $10 million awarded for the survical claim) in its opinion filed on September 30,[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancer Misdiagnosis Led To Unnecessary Prostate Removal Surgery

October 16, 2021

A Pennsylvania man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a mix-up in the preparation and reading of slides from his prostate biopsy caused him to be misdiagnosed as having cancer. He alleges that the biopsy tissue from another patient was wrongfully identified as his and therefore he[...]

U.S. Sues UMPC And Its Surgeon For Overlapping Surgeries

October 2, 2021

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Pennsylvania announced on September 2, 2021 that the United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh Physicians, and James Luketich, M.D. based on a t[...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Restricts Discovery For Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

September 12, 2021

The case decided by the Pennsylvania Supeme Court on August 17, 2021 concerned discovery in a Pennsylvania medical negligence lawsuit in which the patient suffered complications following surgery at a hospital. The issue was whether certain portions of the hospital’s credentialing file for the doc[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Sends Nursing Home Survival Claim To Arbitration

August 23, 2021

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated in its non-precedential opinion filed on July 30, 2021 in a nursing home wrongful death case: “there is nothing in the record to indicate the POA Agreement was invalid … Frank thus had express authorit[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Favor Of Drug Rehab Facility

July 28, 2021

A medical malpractice jury in Pennsylvania returned a defense verdict on June 8, 2021 in favor of the defendant drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that had been sued with regard to the death of a 23-year-old, 316-pound male inpatient who had been admitted for Oxycodone and Xanax addictions. Th[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms No Insurance Coverage Under Employment Practices Insurance For Patient Claims Involving Therapist

July 2, 2021

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated in its Opinion filed on June 17, 2021: “This is an appeal from an order dismissing an insurance coverage action brought by Penn Psychiatric Center, Inc. (Insured) against United States Liability Insurance Co[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Was Unconscionable

April 29, 2021

In denying a nursing home’s motion to enforce an arbitration against one of its residents, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated in its non-precedential Decision field on March 5, 2021: “the Facility offered a classic contract of adhesion [...]

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