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Doctor Involved In Operating Room Death Of Alabama Man Indicted

August 22, 2026

The Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit announced that a Walton County Grand Jury has returned an indictment charging Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky with second-degree manslaughter in the August 2024 death of a 70‑year‑old man from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The indictment follows an[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Common Knowledge Exception Did Not Apply In Surgical Malpractice Case

January 20, 2025

The pro se medical malpractice plaintiffs in a New Jersey medical malpractice case alleged that the defendant medical professionals deviated from the standard of care by failing to postpone surgery and obtain cardiac clearance given plaintiff’s pre-existing conditions, failing to conduct perti[...]

Georgia Surgeon Still Operates Despite Recent $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict, Settlements, And Pending Cases

May 10, 2021

A Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) surgeon who was the subject of a recent $3 million medical malpractice verdict also settled a medical malpractice case in December 2019 and has two pending medical malpractice cases against him (one filed in March 2019 and another that was filed in May 2020) [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Battery And Negligent Supervision Claims Arising From Surgical Removal Of Ovary Were Medical Malpractice Claims

September 3, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated July 23, 2020 that the plaintiff’s battery and negligent supervision claims regarding the allegedly unauthorized removal of her ovary during surgery were sounded in medical mal[...]

$10.5M Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Sponge Left During Bypass Surgery

January 23, 2020

A Kentucky medical malpractice jury recently awarded $10.5 million against the defendant hospital for a woman who had to have a left leg partial amputation that resulted from a sponge left in her during bypass surgery in 2011. About four years after the bypass surgery, the woman found out that the s[...]

Delaware Supreme Court Holds Joint Tortfeasor Release Involving Physician In Medical Malpractice Case Also Released The Defendant Hospital

December 9, 2019

In its opinion filed on December 2, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) held: “Since the release provides that the plaintiff’s claim is reduced by “the greater” of Dr. Principe’s pro rata share of responsibility, whatever that amount [...]

Utah Supreme Court Finds Utah Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Too Late Under UGIA

September 6, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Utah (“Utah Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on August 15, 2019 that despite the Utah medical malpractice plaintiff’s argument that a notice of claim she filed in September 2016, regarding the medical services she received no later than 20[...]

$135M Detroit Medical Malpractice Verdict For Permanent Paralysis After Scoliosis Surgery

July 6, 2018

A 10-year-old girl had rods surgically implanted in her spine in 2010 to treat scoliosis that were allegedly improperly implanted and thereby led to problems with her limbs, bowel, and bladder that were not timely diagnosed or properly treated. As a result, she became a quadriplegic. A Detroit medic[...]

Texas Supreme Court Reverses $1.9M Medical Malpractice Verdict Where Inexperienced Resident Injured Patient During Surgery

June 15, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) issued an opinion on May 25, 2018 that overturned a $1.9 million Texas medical malpractice verdict because the issues of whether the defendant attending surgeon was negligent in involving and supervising an inexperienced resident surgeon[...]

Neurosurgeon In Kenya Operated On Brain Of Wrong Patient

March 17, 2018

Wrong patient surgery or wrong site surgery doesn’t just occur (rarely) in the United States. A neurosurgeon in Kenya recently operated on the brain of the wrong patient and the error was not discovered until more than two hours into the delicate operation, when the neurosurgeon was unable to [...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Affirms That Medical Malpractice Complaint Was Filed Too Late

March 10, 2018

On February 21, 2018, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Massachusetts Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment for the defendant in a Massachusetts medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant surgeon was negligent in performing her abdomi[...]

$500K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict In Lap Chole Case

March 4, 2018

On February 6, 2018, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $500,000 in a Baltimore medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant surgeon negligently clipped the common bile duct during her gallbladder removal[...]

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