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Legal Malpractice Case Reinstated Against Virginia Medical Malpractice Law Firm

September 19, 2024

In September 2016, Melissa Trent had surgery on her left knee to install a “Sigma” knee replacement device, which was manufactured and sold by “DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.” In addition to Sigma, DePuy also sells a different knee replacement called “Attune” that had not been used for Trent�[...]

Virginia Supreme Court Rules Merely Responding To Emails From Virginia Resident Does Not Permit Medical Malpractice Claim To Be Brought Against Out-Of-State Defendants In Virginia

July 20, 2024

Virginia’s Long-Arm Statute Virginia’s long-arm statute provides that a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who transacts business in the Commonwealth or “caus[es] injury in this Commonwealth by an act or omission outside this Commonwealth if he regularly does or solicit[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Reverses Remittitur Order In Medical Malpractice Case

July 4, 2024

In 2019, Anthonette Jasco (“Jasco”) filed a Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that Lawrence Shall, M.D. and his employer, Vann-Virginia Center for Orthopaedics, P.C., were negligent in failing to properly diagnose and treat her knee injury, which resulted in complex surgery, [...]

Virginia Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Where Plaintiff Filed For Bankruptcy After Filing Lawsuit

June 16, 2024

The Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Virginia Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion filed on January 30, 2024: “Shaw-McDonald had standing when she sued defendants. Although her malpractice claim was temporarily transferred to the bankruptcy estate when she filed her Chapte[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Survives Jury Instructions Challenge

June 7, 2024

Kimberly Burch, the administrator of the estate of Joan Ison, sued Dr. Jeff Sensenig and other medical professionals for failing to diagnose Ison with a symptomatic aortic aneurysm that ruptured and caused her death. The Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a defense verdict. On appeal, Burch [...]

$5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Breathing Tube Placed In Esophagus Instead Of Trachea, Leading To Death

January 5, 2024

A 50-year-old man was rescued from a fire in his trailer. He was unconscious for an unknown period of time when he was rescued, but he did regain consciousness at the scene. The man was transported from the scene to Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center in Emporia, Virginia, where he was diagnos[...]

Despite Man’s 53-Hour Erection, ER Doctor Cleared Of Malpractice

December 21, 2023

A man who claimed that he suffered loss of sexual function after suffering an erection that lasted 53 hours filed a Virginia medical malpractice case against an emergency room physician whom he claimed breached the standard of care in failing to properly and timely diagnose and treat his severe test[...]

$625,000 Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Cauda Equina Syndrome Following Kyphoplasty

December 5, 2023

A Virginia medical malpractice settlement has been reached in the amount of $625,000 in a case alleging the improper performance of an in-office thoracic kyphoplasty procedure resulting in emergency hospitalization for cauda equina syndrome that required surgery. On September 8, 2021, the 77-year-ol[...]

$1M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Low Potassium Leading To Cardiac Arrest In Hospital

November 23, 2023

On May 23, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death claim was settled in the amount of $1 million for the death of a 55-year-old woman who died in a hospital because her low potassium level upon arrival was not timely or appropriately treated, leading to cardiac arrest and death. The woma[...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Nursing Home Pressure Ulcer Case

October 15, 2023

On July 7, 2023, after a five-day trial and three and a half hours of jury deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendants in a Virginia medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants negligently failed to prevent a nurs[...]

$3M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Treatment Of Knee Infection Following Surgery

September 13, 2023

$3M For Delayed Treatment Of Knee Infection Following Surgery: On February 16, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million after about five hours of deliberations for a 63-year-old man who suffered osteomyelitis that led to permanent knee fusion because[...]

$1.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis

August 16, 2023

$1.5M For Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis: On February 21, 2023, during mediation, a Virginia medical malpractice case alleging that the defendant gastroenterologist breached the standard of care by delaying the scheduling of a colonoscopy for a patient with a medical history of ulcerative colitis an[...]

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