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Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment For Defendants In Medical Malpractice Case

July 27, 2025

Linda Newton died at Harford Memorial Hospital (“Hospital”) after falling into septic shock. Her estate (“Estate”) alleged that she died as a result of medical malpractice on the part of a radiologist, Haleema Javid, M.D., who read an x-ray taken when she presented to the Hospital with abdom[...]

$1.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer In Smoker

June 15, 2025

A Massachusetts medical malpractice claim involving a 68-year-old woman with a 20-year history of smoking, whose diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer was allegedly delayed for at least 25 months due to the medical negligence of her primary care physician (PCP) and a radiologist who allegedly fail[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For 28-Year-Old’s Death From Misdiagnosed Aortic Dissection

May 7, 2025

A 28-year-old man went to the emergency room of an Illinois hospital on April 27, 2023 with complaints of chest pain, blurred vision, dizziness, lightheadedness, and difficulty breathing. He told the medical staff that his symptoms began two days prior, that he started vomiting the day before his ER[...]

$7.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Blindness

December 10, 2024

On September 27, 2024, an Erie County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury determined that a 23-year-old woman’s blindness was due to the medical negligence of the radiologist who allegedly misread her head CT scan in November 2020. The woman had gone to the hospital and was admitted for thr[...]

$3.38M Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Against Radiologist For Missed Cancer

March 1, 2024

Last week a Wicomico County, Maryland medical malpractice six-person jury awarded $3.38 million against defendants Peter Libby, M.D. and Peninsula Radiological Associates in favor of Mary Raver and her husband, Timothy, for the defendants’ alleged breach of the standard of care owed to Mary Ra[...]

$1 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer

June 11, 2023

$1 Million Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer: A federal medical malpractice lawsuit alleging the delayed diagnosis of a woman’s invasive breast cancer by a Veterans Affairs radiologist filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Di[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Hospital Responsible For Medical Malpractice Verdict Based On Apparent Agency

December 13, 2017

In its opinion filed on November 8, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) affirmed that the defendant hospital was responsible for a share of the $750,000 verdict the Tennessee medical malpractice jury returned in favor of the plaintiff, holdi[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony Not Admissible

June 12, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 13, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in favor of the defendants in a Michigan medical malpractice wrongful death case because the plainti[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Orthopedic Surgeon Not Liable To Patient For Failure To Diagnose Lung Cancer

June 3, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on May 10, 2017 that the defendant orthopedic surgeon’s duty of care as an orthopedic surgeon did not extend to the alleged departure[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Radiologist Who Missed Brain Tumor

June 28, 2016

A Huntington, West Virginia couple have filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against a radiologist and the radiology practice that employed him, alleging that the radiologist missed a brain tumor on a brain scan that he read that led to the untreated brain cancer growing until it could [...]

$11.7M Boston Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer

July 11, 2014

In June 2014, a Boston medical malpractice jury found in favor of a Boston woman whose lung cancer was allegedly misdiagnosed (undiagnosed) by a hospital radiologist, leading to the insidious spread of the cancer throughout her body and her painful death in August 2008 at the age of 47, leaving behi[...]

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