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$15,500 Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary

January 11, 2023

$15,500 Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary: In September 2022, a 12-person Washington medical malpractice jury sitting in Asotin County Superior Court deliberated for six hours before returning its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for noneconomic damages in the amount of $15,500 for the alleged m[...]

Washington State Supreme Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine

November 23, 2022

Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine: The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 2, 2022, “a drug manufacturer is protected under the learned intermediary doctrine even when they adver[...]

Washington State Supreme Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine

August 25, 2022

The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 2, 2022, “a drug manufacturer is protected under the learned intermediary doctrine even when they advertise directly to consumers, provided they give adequate warnings to the[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Washington State Supreme Court Holds RCW 7.70.150 Unconstitutional As To State Governmental Entities Too

August 18, 2022

Timothy Martin was a prisoner incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory in the Monroe Correctional Complex. In January 2020, Mr. Martin filed a lawsuit against the DOC in Snohomish County Superior Court. The DOC removed the case to federal court, and in February 2021, Mr. Martin amended his c[...]

Seattle Lawsuit Alleges EMS Delay Led To Heart Attack Death

June 3, 2022

The family of a 46-year-old Seattle man who died of a heart attack at home filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle on March 24, 2022, alleging that the delay in receiving life-saving EMS treatment was due to the man’s address being placed on an outdated blacklist for hostility to first res[...]

Washington Appellate Court Revives Malpractice Case Against Therapist Alleging Sexual Relationship

October 21, 2021

The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington (“Washington Appellate Court”) held in its opinion published on September 27, 2021: “The trial court dismissed Jodi Williams’ professional negligence and malpractice claims against her former therapist, Shawn Gillies, because the cl[...]

Washington Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment In Informed Consent Medical Malpractice Case

August 7, 2021

The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington (“Washington Appellate Court”) held in its published opinion filed on July 12, 2021: “Viewed in the light most favorable to Davies, as we must, her experts agree that had she undergone a CTA, she would have been diagnosed with a verte[...]

Washington State Agrees To Pay $3.25M To Settle Prison Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

July 4, 2021

Washington State has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of a 57-year-old prison inmate who died from an abdominal incisional wound following cancer surgery that the prison medical staff failed to properly treat and for which he was only provided over-the-counter Tylenol for his excruciating p[...]

$14M Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Stroke Following Cardiac Cathetherization

March 5, 2019

A now 22-year-old woman won her Seattle, Washington medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital and a physcians’ group that alleged that she suffered a stroke shortly after a cardiac catheterization procedure performed at the defendant hospital that was not diagnosed and treated in a timely[...]

Washington Appellate Court Allows Prior Drug Use Testimony In Medical Malpractice Case

March 9, 2018

The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington (“Washington Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on February 20, 2018 in a Washington medical malpractice wrongful death case that testimony regarding the decedent’s prior drug use was properly admitted into eviden[...]

Appellate Court Decides Washington State Medical Malpractice Case Was Filed Too late

December 16, 2013

In its unreported opinion filed on December 5, 2013, the Court of Appeals of the State of Washington (“WA State Court of Appeals”) held in the case it was deciding that the statute of limitations period was neither tolled by a timely request for mediation by the medical malpractice plai[...]

Washington Medical Malpractice Victim Awarded $30M For Throat Fire During Surgery

December 14, 2013

A 55-year-old woman from Washington State had polyps on her vocal cords for which she had surgery using a laser. A breathing tube had been inserted into her throat as part of the surgical procedure and oxygen was flowing at the time the laser started a fire in her throat. The laser surgery fire [...]

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$15,500 Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary

Washington State Supreme Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine

Washington State Supreme Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine

Washington State Supreme Court Holds RCW 7.70.150 Unconstitutional As To State Governmental Entities Too

Seattle Lawsuit Alleges EMS Delay Led To Heart Attack Death

Washington Appellate Court Revives Malpractice Case Against Therapist Alleging Sexual Relationship

Washington State Agrees To Pay $3.25M To Settle Prison Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

$14M Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Stroke Following Cardiac Cathetherization

Washington Appellate Court Allows Prior Drug Use Testimony In Medical Malpractice Case

Appellate Court Decides Washington State Medical Malpractice Case Was Filed Too late

Washington Medical Malpractice Victim Awarded $30M For Throat Fire During Surgery

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