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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[...]

Nearly $60M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

December 7, 2024

A Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on September 27, 2024 in the amount of $59.7 million in favor of 33-year-old Kiet “Ricky” Tuan Do against Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and a physician. Ricky had alleged in his Texas medical malpractice lawsuit that the hospit[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict For Sponge Left In After Surgery Malpractice Case

December 30, 2023

The uncontested evidence during trial established that Robert Santaella, M.D. surgically removed a mass fromEmily Abney-Acosta’s abdomen, and a sponge remained in her abdominal cavity after the surgery. During the months following the surgery, Santaella and other physicians aspirated a seroma that[...]

$10.2M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital

February 15, 2023

$10.2M Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital: On December 9, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs (wife and husband) in the amount of $10.2 million against a hospital for the delay in proper medical treatment that led to the wife suffering permanent p[...]

$3.5 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Blood Clot

January 15, 2023

$3.5 Million For Misdiagnosis Of Blood Clot: On September 28, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury in Houston returned its verdict in the amount of $3.5 million in favor of the plaintiff who alleged that the defendant failed to properly diagnose a large blood clot in his leg that left him with a s[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Texas Supreme Court Discusses Requirements Of Periodic Payments Statute In Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

July 7, 2022

Texas Civil Remedies & Procedures Code § 74.503 Texas Civil Remedies & Procedures Code § 74.503, Texas’ periodic-payments statute for medical malpractice cases, provides that “[a]t the request of a defendant physician or health care provider or claimant, the court shall order that [...]

$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[...]

Nearly $3 Million Celexa Suicide Verdict In Texas

May 18, 2022

On May 13, 2022, a Texas medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,979,523 for an elderly man who committed suicide shortly after being placed on the anti-anxiety medication Celexa (Citalopram). The defendants were his primary care physician and his medical pra[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

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 Supreme Court Discusses Proper Application Of Statutory Reductions Of Medical Malpractice Jury Verdicts

May 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”), in its opinion dated May 8, 2020, discussed the proper method of applying the required statutory reductions of a Texas medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff where some of the defendants settled before trial [...]

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[...]

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