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$2.1M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Missed Pulmonary Embolism

October 10, 2026

In July 2026, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,102,108.72 for the preventable death of a woman who had a pulmonary embolism that was not diagnosed in the emergency room despite her exhibiting symptoms consistent with having pulmonary embolism, resulting in [...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms $8.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

October 24, 2025

The defendant appealed from the trial court’s judgment for the plaintiffs, Linda Sobin, in her individual capacity and as administrator of the estate of her deceased husband, Peter Sobin, on their claims for wrongful death due to medical negligence and loss of consortium in connection with Peter�[...]

Lawsuit Alleges Physician Responsible For Husband's Death

$7.25M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aortic Dissection In Hospital

August 22, 2023

$7.25M Settlement For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aortic Dissection: Shortly before a Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial was scheduled to begin on June 12, 2023, the family of a 32-year-old woman who died from an undiagnosed aortic dissection while in the hospital settled the case, with the family [...]

$6.5M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn Baby

April 23, 2023

$6.5M Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn Baby: In April 2023, a Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death jury awarded a 37-year-old woman $6.5 million in damages for wrongful death and medical malpractice in her lawsuit against Yale University for the death of her baby during delivery at 37 wee[...]

West Virginia Widow’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Primary Care Physician Responsible For Husband’s Fatal Heart Attack

November 4, 2022

Lawsuit Alleges Physician Responsible For Husband’s Death: The widow of a 51-year-old attorney who died ten days after suffering a heart attack in front of his wife at home in March 2022 has filed a West Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against her husband’s primary ca[...]

$7.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Judge

August 20, 2022

On June 1, 2022, a New York medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in a New York medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a hospital for the death of a Supreme Court judge who died from a heart attack in his hospital room after he was left alone and unmonitored for 23 [&[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Expert Was Qualified To Render Opinions

April 19, 2022

The plaintiff in a Texas medical malpractice case filed against a hospital alleged that had Methodist Hospitals of Dallas d/b/a Methodist Mansfield Medical Center (MMMC) had proper policies, procedures, and training in place, those policies would have dictated proper diagnostic testing that would ha[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital And Nurse In Heart Attack Medical Malpractice Case

July 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its Opinion filed on June 16, 2021: “there is evidence suggesting that the patient warranted care his treating physician did not provide to him. Experts testified that Moss should have been placed on the Level II t[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Provide Intervening/Superseding Cause Instruction

December 12, 2020

The Supreme Court of Mississippi in its opinion dated November 19, 2020 held: “Both Dr. Ilercil and Williams presented evidence that Nurse Howard was negligent by failing to contact Dr. Ilercil after she observed Williams’s rapidly declining condition, the signs of which Dr. Ilercil had spec[...]

New York Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

November 26, 2020

The New York Appellate Division, Second Department (“New York Appellate Court”), in its decision dated November 4, 2020, refused to enforce a nursing home arbitration agreement, stating that the nursing home “failed to demonstrate that the resident, or William as her representative[...]

Missouri Federal Court Does Not Allow Affirmative Defense Of Comparative Fault In Medical Malpractice Case

September 24, 2020

The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division (“Federal Court”) held in its Order dated August 14, 2020: “In sum, on the facts, law, and arguments presented here, Mr. Campbell’s pre-treatment conduct and his medical conditions as described[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case Filed After Two-Year Statute Of Limitations Expired

September 11, 2020

In its opinion dated July 30, 2020, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) stated, “In its order granting the Conaboy Defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the trial court held that because Mrs. Whitman died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, and the[...]

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