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New Jersey Appellate Court Holds That Subsequent Treating Physician Cannot Testify As To Standard Of Care

September 2, 2017

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on August 15, 2017 that medical malpractice defendants may not use the plaintiff’s treating doctors to provide expert testimony relating to deviation from the standard o[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

February 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on February 1, 2016, the Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the Indiana medical malpractice plaintiffs, while also affirming the trial court’s denial of the medical malpractice [...]

Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendant

November 18, 2013

In a Georgia medical malpractice case decided on November 14, 2013, the Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held that the trial court was wrong in entering summary judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendant and that the Georgia Court of Appeals was wrong i[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia)

September 15, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia: Idaho TITLE 6, ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES, CHAPTER 10, MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, 6-1012. Proof of community standard of health care practice in malpractice[...]

New Vascular Testing Guidelines

June 18, 2012

The American College of Cardiology, through its Foundation, recently reviewed common indications when ultrasound and physiological testing (defined as “evaluation of the peripheral circulation based on measurement of limb blood pressures with pulse volume recordings or Doppler waveforms, or [...]

South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Surgery

April 14, 2012

On March 9, 2012, after a one-week trial before a South Carolina medical malpractice jury, the surviving husband of a woman who died in November, 2007 just three weeks after surgery, received a medical malpractice verdict in his favor in the amount of $2.4 million. The medical malpractice claim al[...]

Is This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death

April 10, 2012

One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a living liver donor died on the operating room table while giving the gift of life to his brother-in-l[...]

Virginia Dentist Pulled Too Many Teeth

March 16, 2012

A Maryland man in his mid-60s went to a Virginia dentist instead of a Maryland dentist because the Virginia dentist was closer to his girlfriend’s home and the Virginia dentist was also a member of the same church as his girlfriend. So when the man needed to replace a dental crown in 2010, he[...]

The Impact Of Anesthesia Medical Malpractice On Practitioners

March 13, 2012

In an article published in the March, 2012 issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the results of a survey sent to 1,200 randomly selected members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, of which 659 completed and returned the survey, found that 84% of the respondents had been [...]

Mississippi Medical Malpractice Judgment For Botched Abortion

January 21, 2012

Earlier this month, a Mississippi judge entered a default judgment in a medical malpractice case in favor of a woman and her husband for the alleged injuries sustained by the woman when the doctor performing her abortion suddenly stopped the procedure and sent her home, despite the woman h[...]

Large Recent Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Broken Neck

December 1, 2011

At the end of October, 2011, a federal jury in Wyoming awarded a man whose broken neck was not properly diagnosed a record-breaking $9 million (the prior record was reported to be $1.5 million). The jury found that a board-certified emergency room physician and the hospital that employed him breac[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Hospital Negligence

November 29, 2011

A 42-year-old mother of five went to a local New Jersey hospital in 2004 with a low sodium level (hyponatremia) that was a chronic condition for her. The treatment rendered by the hospital resulted in the rapid increase in her sodium levels over the period of 14 hours, allegedly leading to severe a[...]

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