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California Appellate Court Holds Separate MICRA Caps Apply To Wrongful Death And Survival Claims

March 18, 2025

In October 2023, Joely Ng filed a complaint against the Los Alamitos Medical Center, Inc. and certain doctors alleging that Ng’s husband, Kenneth Ng, was admitted to the Medical Center in December 2022 due to a malfunction of his G-tube. In the emergency room, one of the defendant doctors repl[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Holds Wrongful Death Claims Based On Medical Care Are Subject To 4-Year Medical Malpractice Statute Of Repose

March 10, 2024

The Supreme Court of Ohio held in its December 28, 2023 opinion: “The broad definition of “medical claim” that applies to the statute of repose clearly and unambiguously includes wrongful-death claims based on medical care, and nothing in Ohio’s statutory wrongful-death chapter negates t[...]

Florida Appellate Court Says Failure-To-Transfer Claim Is A Medical Malpractice Claim

July 13, 2020

The District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District (“Florida Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated May 29, 2020, “The issue presented by these consolidated petitions is whether a claim arising out of the alleged failure to complete a medically necessary tra[...]

$13M Manhattan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Colorectal Surgeon

December 14, 2018

A Manhattan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant colorectal surgeon at the conclusion of trial in mid-November 2018, awarding the surviving family of a stay-at-home mother and wife to a police officer, who died as a result of medical negligence, a total of $13 million.[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Applies Continuous Course Of Conduct Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Appeal

October 12, 2018

The Connecticut Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on September 25, 2018: “although we conclude that the trial court correctly determined that the record in the present case does not support application of the continuing course of treatment doctrine, we agree with the plaintiffs that the [...]

New Trial Ordered In Olympus Contaminated Scope Case

January 26, 2018

In its Order dated January 16, 2018, the Superior Court of the State of Washington For King County (“Court”) granted the plaintiff’s motion for new trial and for sanctions against Olympus America, Inc. and related defendants (“Olympus”) in a wrongful death case in which[...]

$4.475M Georgia Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict

September 6, 2017

A Savannah, Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff on August 14, 2017 after a six-day Georgia medical malpractice trial and two hours and twenty minutes of jury deliberations, for the death of a post-surgical patient while he was in the hospital the night fol[...]

$3.5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman’s Death Due To Undiagnosed Heart Condition

August 23, 2017

On February 6, 2012, a 41-year-old woman went to the defendant hospital’s emergency room, complaining of severe pain in her left shoulder that radiated down her left arm. She was admitted to the hospital and a cardiac evaluation was ordered due to her symptoms. As part of the cardiac evaluatio[...]

$1M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For 22-Year-Old’s Death

July 9, 2017

On June 30, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the family of a 22-year-old woman in the amount of just over $1 million for her wrongful death due to medical malpractice. During the five-day Baltimore medical malpractice trial, the jury heard testimony regardi[...]

Iowa Supreme Court: Adult Children’s Loss Of Consortium Claims Not Subject To Arbitration In Nursing Home Case

October 27, 2016

In its decision filed on October 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”) held that under Iowa law, adult children’s loss-of-consortium claims are not arbitrable just because the wrongful-death action is otherwise arbitrable in a nursing home case where the nursing [...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Hospital Overdosed Patient Leading To His Death

April 19, 2016

On April 15, 2016, the widow of a Tennessee police detective filed her Tennessee medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where her husband had a lethal level of narcotic pain medication (oxycodone) in his system at the time of his death. The widow was originally told that he[...]

PA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Responsible For 15-Year-Old’s Death

November 6, 2015

A Pennsylvania wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit scheduled for trial in January 2016 alleges that the defendant hospital, its emergency room physician, and others were medically negligent in discharging a 15-year-old patient from the emergency room before properly treating him and diagnosi[...]

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