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Ohio Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Missed One-Year Statute Of Limitations

April 6, 2018

The Ohio Court of Appeals Ninth Judicial Circuit (“Ohio Appellate Court”) ruled in a case it decided on March 14, 2018 that the plaintiff’s Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit was untimely because it was not filed within Ohio’s one year statute of limitations for medical malprac[...]

Two Sponges Left In Woman For At Least Six Years Following C-Section

March 20, 2018

An article appearing on February 22, 2018 in The New England Journal of Medicine discussed the case of a 42-year-old Japanese woman who had been experiencing lower abdominal bloating for three years. The woman went to her primary care provider for diagnosis where abdominal palpation found two nonten[...]

$109M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Subject To $100K Cap On Damages

February 7, 2018

On January 26, 2018, a Tampa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $109 million in favor of the plaintiff who lost her hands and feet following minor surgery for a benign ovarian cyst. The now 52-year-old woman was a civilian intelligence analyst in late 2010 when she was not al[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Forceps Left In Patient During Surgery

January 3, 2018

A California woman has filed a medical malpractice case in California in which she alleges that surgical forceps were left in her abdomen during an exploratory laparotomy in April 2017, resulting in the need to have further surgery to remove the 8-inch long surgical instrument and 18 inches of her s[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Was Filed After Statute Of Limitations Expired

December 3, 2017

The State of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) filed an opinion on November 17, 2017 in which it affirmed summary judgment in favor of the West Virginia medical malpractice defendants, finding that the West Virginia medical malpractice plaintiff had f[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For One Physician Where Both Defendant Physicians Said The Other Caused The Plaintiff’s Injury

November 10, 2017

The October 10, 2017 Decision and Order of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Devision, First Department (“New York Appellate Court”) reversed the summary judgment that the trial court had entered in favor of one of the two defendant surgeons who were both sued by the plaintiff on beh[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Surgeon Removed Large Portion Of Patient’s Pancreas, Instead Of Adrenal Gland

October 14, 2017

A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a surgeon who allegedly removed 40% of the plaintiff’s healthy pancreas instead of the cancerous tumor on her adrenal gland. The defendant surgeon told the 63-year-old woman’s family shortly after the surgery that he had removed [...]

$1.875M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Nurse’s Negligence Following Gallbladder Surgery

January 18, 2016

A North Carolina woman had elevated liver enzymes that led to her have her gallbladder removed during laparoscopic surgery (i.e., laparoscopic cholecystectomy) in Virginia. During the procedure, the surgeon improperly cut the woman’s common hepatic duct and her left and right hepatic ducts, ac[...]

North Carolina Hospital Loses Appeal Seeking To Hide Incident Report

December 26, 2014

In its opinion filed on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Supreme Court”) held that the defendant hospital was not shielded from providing the medical malpractice plaintiff with the results of its internal investigation into an operating room fire that seriously i[...]

Only 4 Of 25 Florida Physicians With The Most Medical Malpractice Payouts Have Lost Their License

September 25, 2014

A review of the 25 physicians in Florida who had the largest number of medical malpractice payouts as a result of judgments and settlements found that only four of them had lost their license to practice medicine in Florida. Of the four who lost their Florida medical license, three lost their lice[...]

Former Baltimore Ravens Cornerback Wins North Carolina Medical Malpractice Case

September 18, 2014

Former Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle won a $650,000 North Carolina medical malpractice verdict on September 5, 2014 against an orthopedic surgery practice. The case was originally filed in 2011 and was scheduled for trial in April 2013 but the case had to be postponed when the defendant o[...]

Man Enters Hospital For Circumcision, Leaves Without His Penis

July 28, 2014

Sounds like a bad joke, but it was horrifically serious for a man in Alabama. On July 22, 2014, the Alabama man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Alabama state court against a hospital and others for his injuries and damages resulting from the amputation of his penis during a circumcision [...]

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