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Virginia Appellate Court Applies Continuing Treatment Rule In Reinstating Medical Malpractice Case

January 24, 2025

Renee Jauregui filed a complaint in Fairfax County Circuit Court on June 30, 2021, asserting a medical malpractice claim against Dr. Shannon J. Cothran and Capital Women’s Care, LLC. Jauregui alleged that she informed Dr. Cothran of a lump in her breast during four pregnancy-related visits with Dr[...]

D.C. Appellate Court Affirms Insurance Company Not Responsible For Judgment Against D.C. Medical Malpractice Law Firm

April 30, 2015

In its opinion filed on April 21, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for The District Of Columbia Circuit (“Appellate Court”) held that a D.C. medical malpractice law firm’s professional liability insurance company was not responsible to pay the $1,750,000 legal malpractice[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia)

September 15, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia: Idaho TITLE 6, ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES, CHAPTER 10, MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, 6-1012. Proof of community standard of health care practice in malpractice[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Permanently Injured Newborn

May 21, 2012

On May 18, 2012, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $9 million after ten days of trial and less than four hours of jury deliberation against two Virginia obstetricians as a result of alleged negligent medical care that resulted in a baby being born severely and [...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection

April 9, 2012

A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Gastric-Bypass Patient

December 14, 2011

On August 11, 2006, a Virginia jury returned a $3.5 million verdict after a one week medical malpractice trial in favor of a gastric-bypass patient and her family for the woman’s injuries that resulted from allegedly negligent medical care. The 36-year-old woman’s weight was about dou[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Physician Complaints And Disciplinary Actions

November 4, 2011

The Virginia Board of Medicine (“Board”) is responsible for licensing and disciplining medical doctors and other specified medical providers in Virginia. The Board consists of 18 members: 11 medical doctors (MDs), 1 doctor of osteopathy (DO), 4 public members, and others. The Board mee[...]

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