Virginia medical malpractice verdict Archives

$1,750,000 Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Affirmed Despite Exclusion Of Defense Expert

September 22, 2026

The Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed the $1,750,000 Virginia medical malpractice verdict in favor of a man who had undergone an appendectomy but the surgeon failed to remove his entire appendix, thereby requiring further surgery. The Virginia appellate court rejected the Defendant’s argum[...]

$1.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligently Performed Colonoscopy Requiring Splenectomy

July 31, 2026

On May 9, 2026, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.5 million for an improperly performed colonoscopy that required a splenectomy, leaving the patient immunocompromised for the rest of her life. On March 5, 2024, the plaintiff underwent a colonoscopy performe[...]

$1.5M Virginia Failure-To-Refer Medical Malpractice Verdict Overturned On Appeal

April 23, 2026

The plaintiff in a Virginia medical malpractice case who suffered loss of sight in one eye after eye surgery had an expert in ophthalmology and cataract surgery testify during trial that the defendant eye surgeon stimulated inflammation, eye pressure, and the possibility for a retinal tear in the pl[...]

$1.4M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Ulcer Diagnosis In ER, Leading To Death

November 4, 2025

On March 17, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.4 million for the death of a 30-year-old man who had a perforated duodenal ulcer that was misdiagnosed in the ER. The man went to a hospital ER on December 28, 2019, complaining of 10 out of 10 abdominal [...]

$3.45M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrong Bariatric Surgery Performed

March 1, 2025

On July 12, 2024, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3.45 million in favor of the plaintiff, who suffered harm because her surgeon performed the wrong gastric procedure on her. The plaintiff had initially consulted with a physician associated with the Virginia[...]

$1.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For New Mother Who Bled To Death Due To Untreated Rare Blood Disorder

December 12, 2024

On March 28, 2024, after nine hours of jury deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.5 million in favor of the family of a 41-year-old woman who died from a brain bleed due to a rare blood disorder, shortly after giving birth to her third child on A[...]

$5.5M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict

October 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.5 million (including $9,206.87 in funeral expenses) for a 48-year-old man who died from pulmonary embolism after he visited his family doctor complaining of shortness of breath, dizziness[...]

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, [...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal Despite Defense Request For Mistrial

January 10, 2024

Background Facts In March 2019, Dr. Colleen Connor, an employee of Mid-Atlantic Women’s Care, P.L.C., performed a total abdominalhysterectomy on Gloria Kontaratos, with assistance from Dr. Seifeldin Sadek, a medical resident. At approximately 11:00 a.m. on the day following surgery, Kontaratos rep[...]

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[...]

$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[...]

$2.23 Million Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Wrongful Death From Sepsis

May 27, 2023

$2.23 Million Verdict For Wrongful Death From Sepsis: On April 3, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2.23 million after a five-day trial and five hours of jury deliberations, beating the defense’s top settlement offer in the amount o[...]

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