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Texas Appellate Court Rules Injury Claim From Falling Ceiling Tile In Hospital Was Medical Malpractice Claim

October 7, 2026

Savannah Burns was admitted to St. David’s Medical Center on or about July 21, 2024, after complaints of pre-term contractions. She was treated in labor and delivery room 18 and was administered an epidural. While resting under epidural anesthesia in preparation for the delivery of her child, a ce[...]

Texas Supreme Court Upholds Calculation Of Medical Malpractice Verdict Reduction For Settlement Credit

February 1, 2026

Robert Detrick and his wife sued a skilled nursing facility, claiming its nurses negligently failed to notify his doctors of a change in his condition. Detrick alleged that this failure led to a delay in diagnosing a compression of his spinal cord, resulting in his paralysis. Detrick also sued other[...]

Texas Cardiologist Agrees To Pay $1.2 Million To Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations

September 21, 2025

Dr. Juan Kurdi, M.D., a cardiologist in Lubbock, Texas, has agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by issuing prescriptions for opioids and other powerful drugs outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate me[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient

December 20, 2022

Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient: Under Chapter 74, claimants in Texas health care liability cases must serve an expert report on each defendant. TEX.CIV. PRAC. & REM.CODE § 74.351. The purpose of this requirement is to weed out frivolous malpractice claims in the early stages[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Estate Had Standing To Bring Medical Malpractice Action

December 12, 2022

Court Holds Estate Had Standing To Bring Malpractice Action: Celia Ontiveros was a patient at a nursing care facility run by Nexion from September of 2014 through early March of 2015. Ontiveros experienced several issues at the facility such as weight loss and falls, and it was alleged that she had [...]

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award

October 9, 2022

Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award: The Supreme Court of Texas stated in its opinion delivered on May 13, 2022: “In this health-care liability case, we must determine the appropriate causation standard to apply. The facts are tragic. A teen committed suicide after seeking treatme[...]

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Reviving Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

October 3, 2022

Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Reviving Birth Injury Case: The Supreme Court of Texas stated in its opinion dated May 6, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice birth injury case: “The Texas Medical Liability Act requires health-care-liability claimants to timely serve each defend[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient

September 16, 2022

Under Chapter 74, claimants in Texas health care liability cases must serve an expert report on each defendant. TEX.CIV. PRAC. & REM.CODE § 74.351. The purpose of this requirement is to weed out frivolous malpractice claims in the early stages of litigation, not to dispose of potentially merito[...]

Texas Appellate Court Revives Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Ambulance Company Despite Defective Medical Authorization

September 3, 2022

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) stated in its June 10, 2022 opinion in a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against an ambulance company, “we construe the TMLA—as courts construe all statutes—to encourage and safegu[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery

July 3, 2022

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery: In early April 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned a verdict against a Texas hospital and an anesthesia practice for the brain damage suffered by a patient during surgery when an anesthesiologist adminis[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Reports Were Sufficient When Considered Together In Health Care Liability Case

May 23, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals stated in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice case where the defendants challenged the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s experts’ reports: “Appellee is permitted to rely on more than one expert report in m[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Physician Ignored Patient’s Sulfa Allergy, Leading To Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

December 5, 2021

On October 26, 2021, a Texas medial malpractice lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Harris County, Texas against the plaintiff’s treating physician, alleging that the defendant “decided to ignore prior notices and warnings pertaining to Plaintiff’s severe allergy to sulfa an[...]

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Texas Appellate Court Rules Injury Claim From Falling Ceiling Tile In Hospital Was Medical Malpractice Claim

Texas Supreme Court Upholds Calculation Of Medical Malpractice Verdict Reduction For Settlement Credit

Texas Cardiologist Agrees To Pay $1.2 Million To Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient

Texas Appellate Court Holds Estate Had Standing To Bring Medical Malpractice Action

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Suicide Medical Malpractice Award

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Reviving Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report And Addendum Were Sufficient

Texas Appellate Court Revives Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Ambulance Company Despite Defective Medical Authorization

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Reports Were Sufficient When Considered Together In Health Care Liability Case

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Physician Ignored Patient’s Sulfa Allergy, Leading To Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

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