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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case, Overturning Tribunal’s Decision

January 5, 2026

On July 6, 2020, the decedent, a fifty-eight year old man, presented to the emergency department at Cape Cod Hospital (CCH) via ambulance because he was unable to use his left arm. He reported that he had fallen approximately two weeks prior and did not experience pain until one week afterward. Dr. [...]

$3M Upstate New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Perirectal Abscess In ER

December 16, 2025

An upstate New York medical malpractice jury awarded a 49-year-old woman $3 million ($1 million for past pain and suffering and $2 million for future pain and suffering) on October 10, 2025 in her medical malpractice case against a hospital for the alleged failure to diagnose an abscess when she wen[...]

$35M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Infection Leading To Necrotizing Fasciitis After Cosmetic Surgery

March 30, 2025

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $35 million for a patient who had elective cosmetic surgical procedures after which she developed an infection that was not timey or appropriately diagnosed or treated, leading to sepsis and the patient deteriorating into a co[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Supervising Physicians Not Liable For Negligent Acts Of Their Physician Assistants

April 17, 2023

Supervising Physicians Not Liable For Negligent Acts Of Physician Assistants: In its opinion dated February 24, 2023, the Court of Appeals of Georgia held: “the language of the PAA [Physician Assistant Act] does not expressly impose vicarious liability on supervising physicians for the neglige[...]

California Supreme Court Rules $250K MICRA Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Physician Assistants

February 26, 2022

In its opinion dated February 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of California (“California Supreme Court”) held that California’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases “applies to a physician assistant who has a legally enforceable agency relationship wit[...]

$3.2M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

July 21, 2021

On May 29, 2021, a Missouri medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict of almost $3.2 million in favor of the parents of a one-year-old who died three hours after he was seen in an urgent care clinic at CoxHealth Hospital in Branson, Missouri, on June 5, 2017. The urgent care clini[...]

California Appellate Court Eviscerates $4.25M Noneconomic Damages Award In Medical Malpractice Case To $250,000

May 5, 2020

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Two (“California Appellate Court”), in its published opinion filed on March 24, 2020, slashed the California medical malpractice trial court’s award of noneconomic damages in the amount of $4,250,000 [...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Emergency Room PA After Patient Lost Her Leg

July 28, 2019

On Friday, July 12, 2019, after a five-day jury trial, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury deliberated for three and a half hours late into the night before determining that an emergency room physician assistant did not breach the standard of care when he attempted to surgically drain a drug ad[...]

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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