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New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Defendants In Stroke Malpractice Case

April 4, 2026

The plaintiff filed a New York medical malpractice action on behalf of the decedent seeking damages for his wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering allegedly caused by defendants’ delay in detecting and properly treating decedent’s stroke following his admission to defendant St. Elizabet[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In tPA Stroke Case

November 15, 2022

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In tPA Stroke Case: In its Decision & Order dated August 17, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held: “the plaintiffs raised triable issues of fact as to whether Nandakumar departed from the accepted standard of care in his neurological[...]

Study Finds Delay In Treating Ischemic Stroke Causes Loss Of 2.2 Hours Of Healthy Life For Every One Second Of Delay

May 15, 2021

A study published in JAMA Neurology on May 3, 2021 entitled, “Healthy Life-Year Costs of Treatment Speed From Arrival to Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients With Ischemic Stroke A Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data From 7 Randomized Clinical Trials” concluded: “In this stud[...]

North Carolina Supreme Court Declines To Adopt Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Cases

December 22, 2020

The Supreme Court of North Carolina (“North Carolina Supreme Court”) declined to adopt the loss of chance doctrine in medical malpractice cases in its opinion filed on December 18, 2020. The North Carolina Supreme Court stated, “we are asked to change our existing jurisprudence reg[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke Victim With Factor V Leiden

May 31, 2020

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated March 12, 2020, held, “Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to plaintiff, and granting him all reasonable inferences, we conclude that plaintiff presented sufficient e[...]

$7.9M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiologists For Woman’s Stroke

July 28, 2017

On July 3, 2017, a Miami-Dade County, Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,991,000 in favor of a 77-year-old woman who suffered a debilitating stroke affecting her left side after her cardiologists stopped her blood-thinning medication, Coumadin. The plaintiff&[...]

Missouri $6.4 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke

July 16, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $6.4 million on July 5, 2013 for a stroke the man suffered in 2007. The basis for the man’s medical malpractice lawsuit was his primary care physician’s failure to diagnosis and treat his bacterial infection that led to a str[...]

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