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Maryland Appellate Court Holds Hospital Entitled To Statutory Immunity For Psychiatric Patient’s Murder Of Another Person 11 Days Later

July 31, 2020

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unreported opinion filed on July 24, 2020 that the defendant hospital in a Maryland wrongful death case in which a psychiatric patient killed another person eleven days after absconding from the hospital wa[...]

15-Year-Old Psychiatric Patient Fatally Stabbed Hospital Patient Recovering From Surgery In Another Room

April 30, 2020

It has been reported that on March 18, 2020, a 15-year-old psychiatric patient in his hospital room at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore City, Maryland, suddenly ran past the hospital employee assigned to watch him and attacked a 74-year-old woman who was in a nearby room recove[...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules In Favor Of Psychiatric Hospital

September 15, 2018

The Massschusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided in its August 14, 2018 opinion, in a psychiatric malpractice case in which the plaintiffs alleged that by releasing a patient eleven days after his commitment when there was a likelihood of serious harm to all persons who came in contact with him that[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Hospital Sexual Assault Claim

December 11, 2016

On November 23, 2016, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant hospital after an eight-day trial, finding that the hospital was not responsible for the two sexual assaults of a woman in its psychiatric unit that occurred in 2008 that were perpetrated by anot[...]

Kansas Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Case Involving Suicide To Proceed

April 9, 2016

In its unreported decision filed on March 18, 2016, the Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Appellate Court”) reversed the dismissal of a Kansas medical malpractice case involving the suicide of a 28-year-old man who committed suicide shortly after being discharged from a st[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Allows Bystander To Medical Malpractice To Claim Emotional Distress

May 1, 2015

In its decision released on April 28, 2015, the Connecticut Supreme Court decided whether, and under what circumstances, a bystander emotional distress claim may be brought in connection with an injury arising from alleged medical malpractice and what degree of emotional distress a bystander mus[...]

Florida Hospital Sued For Psychiatric Malpractice

July 16, 2014

On July 10, 2014, a psychiatric medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against a Florida hospital for the death of a 32-year-old psychiatric patient who was strangled by another psychiatric patient with a history of violence and who had been placed in the same hospital room. The man who was strangled[...]

Medical Malpractice In California Mental Hospitals

May 18, 2012

Five years ago, the federal government sued the State of California in order to force changes at four California state mental hospitals. The allegations included the overuse of patient restraints, the overuse of medications on patients, and poor patient safety. The lawsuit resulted in the federal [...]

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