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$2.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Aortic Rupture Leading To Death

April 14, 2024

In September 2023, a Massachusetts medical malpractice wrongful death claim was settled for $2.5 million. The plaintiff had alleged that a hospital radiologist reported as normal an abnormal CT scan that showed a hematoma around the patient’s aorta. As a result of the radiologist’s wrong[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$15.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist For Permanent Paralysis

August 31, 2022

$15.5 Million Verdict Against Neurosurgeon And Radiologist: Earlier in August 2022, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15.5 million against neurosurgeon Mark A. Fulton, M.D., whom the jury determined to have failed to diagnose and subsequently treat a patient&#[...]

$28.5M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Settlement For Missed Pediatric Brain Tumor

June 14, 2022

A $28.5 million settlement was recently reached in a South Carolina medical malpractice case that alleged that a radiologist failed to identify a malignant tumor on an MRI brain scan of a 14-year-old student-athlete in 2015 after he started having shooting pains in the back of his skull, incidents o[...]

New York Appellate Court Holds Lavern’s Law Did Not Apply To Plaintiff’s Misdiagnosis Of Cancer Claim

May 16, 2022

Plaintiff’s New York medical malpractice complaint alleged that on May 16, 2014, defendant radiologist reviewed a CT scan of plaintiff’s abdomen and pelvis, which revealed nodular densities in the right lower lobe of the lung. The defendant recommended a dedicated CT scan of the chest to[...]

$1.2M Colorado Legal Malpractice Verdict For Missed Statute Of Limitations In Medical Malpractice Case

February 9, 2020

A Colorado jury has awarded a woman who claimed her Colorado medical malpractice lawyer failed to file her medical malpractice case before the statute of limitations expired $1.2 million in damages against her former lawyer. The woman further claimed that her lawyer attempted to cover up his failure[...]

Analysis Of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Radiologists

December 21, 2019

The Doctors Company, which is the largest medical malpractice insurer owned by physicians in the United States, has issued a report entitled “Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Closed Claims Study” in which it reports on the findings of its analysis of 596 claims (written demands fo[...]

$11.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Radiologist’s Failure To Diagnose Toddler’s Myocarditis

June 19, 2019

On June 6, 2019, after a two-week trial, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 11-year-old child in the amount of $11.5 million for the defendant radiologist’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose her enlarged heart in a chest x-ray taken in the defen[...]

Maine Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Radiologist Who Negligently Misread CT Scan

June 12, 2019

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court (“Maine Appellate Court”), in its decision filed on May 30, 2019, affirmed the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant radiologist in a Maine medical malpractice case where the plaintiff claimed the radiologist negligently [...]

$5M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologists For Failure To Diagnose Chiari Malformation

May 20, 2019

On April 8, 2019, a New York medical malpractice jury in Queens County, New York announced its unanimous verdict in the amount of $5 million in favor of the plaintiff against two radiologists whom the plaintiff alleged had failed to report an abnormality on two successive MRI scans of the brain (Chi[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Upholds New Trial For Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

April 21, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Ohio (“Ohio Appellate Court”) upheld a lower court’s grant of a new trial to the Ohio medical malpractice plaintiff in its opinion filed on April 11, 2019, stating: “Based on the inconsistencies in [the defense expert’s] testimony relating to [th[...]

Colorado Supreme Court Holds Plaintiff Must Prove Collectibility In Legal Malpractice Case

February 20, 2019

In its opinion filed on January 28, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado (“Colorado Supreme Court” ) held that in a legal malpractice action based on the defendant attorney’s alleged failure to timely file the plaintiff’s underlying medical malpractice case before[...]

Oregon Supreme Court Rules Treating Radiologists’ Testimony Regarding Imaging Studies Not Impermissible Expert Testimony

October 9, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Orgeon Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 23, 2018 that the questions that the Orgeon medical malpractice plaintiff asked two radiologists employed by the defendant radiology group about what they saw in the plaintiff’s imagin[...]

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