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Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Toll Statute Of Limitations

September 21, 2021

In Texas, health care liability claims must be brought “within two years from the occurrence of the breach or tort or from the date the medical or health care treatment that is the subject of the claim or the hospitalization for which the claim is made is completed.” TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. C[...]

Texas Supreme Court Holds Mental Health Section 1983 Claim Subject To Texas Medical Liability Act’s Expert Report Requirement

May 4, 2021

The Supreme Court of the State of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) stated in its opinion delivered on April 16, 2021: “The questions before us are (1) whether claims asserted against a state mental health facility and its employees arising from the death of a patient, pleaded as claim[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Workers Comp Carrier Did Not Waive Subrogation For Medical Malpractice Claim

November 22, 2020

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) ruled in its Memorandum Opinion dated October 2, 2020: “The waiver in this case applied only to any “person or organization for whom the Named Insured has agreed by written contract to furnish this w[...]

Texas Appellate Court Upholds $5M Jury Award For 10 To 15 Seconds Of Awareness Of Impending Death

November 13, 2020

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated August 18, 2020, upheld a jury’s award in the amount of $5 million for a victim’s ten to fifteen seconds of awareness of impending death after the jury determined that the v[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms $1.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cotton Ball Left In Brain During Surgery Seven Years Earlier

September 10, 2019

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on August 22, 1019 in a Texas medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that a cotton ball was left behind in her brain at the conclusion of the brain surge[...]

Researchers Find Texas’ Bases For Medical Malpractice Reform In 2003 Were Bogus

March 8, 2019

The University of Texas School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 284 entitled “Fictions and Facts: Medical Malpractice Litigation, Physician Supply, and Health Care Spending in Texas Before and After HB4,” which was posted on February 7, 2019, found: (1) there were no major ch[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds Claim Against Hospital For Patient Tased And Shot In His Room Is A Health Care Liability Claim

July 22, 2018

The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on June 21, 2018 that the plaintiff’s negligence claim against the defendant hospital for sending armed officers to his hospital room where he was tased and shot was [...]

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[...]

$43M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital And Its Doctor On Probation

February 14, 2018

A Texas medical malpractice jury awarded $43.32 million against a hospital and a doctor at the hospital who had been placed on probation by the Texas Medical Board, because the doctor allegedly misdiagnosed and mistreated a hospital patient, causing the plaintiff to suffer severe harm. The Texas med[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Oncologist For Cancer Misdiagnosis

July 22, 2013

Imagine being told by an oncologist that you have terminal Stage IV breast cancer, meaning that your cancer is advanced (has spread) and you are likely to die from the cancer. Imagine further that your oncologist misread a medical test that showed you did not have cancer and that the chemotherapy a[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Student’s Death

December 7, 2012

The parents of a 21-year-old engineering student who attended the University of Texas filed a medical malpractice wrongful death case last week against the University of Texas for their son’s death. They allege that their son died as a result of the failure of the University of Texas at Ar[...]

Texas Doctor Defending First Of 18 Medical Malpractice Cases

September 19, 2012

A Wichita Falls, Texas doctor is presently involved in jury selection in one of at least eighteen local medical malpractice cases filed against him. And medical malpractice claims are not the only professional claims that must concern him — the FBI raided the doctor’s office in April, 20[...]

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