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New Mexico Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Cholecystectomy Death
On March 27, 2013, the surviving daughter of a woman who died after having a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on April 23, 2010 at a Sante Fe, New Mexico hospital filed a medical malpractice case in the...
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$2.1 Million New York Radiology Malpractice Verdict
After almost three weeks of trial and on the second day of jury deliberations, a New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $2.1 million against a radiologist and in...
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New York Medical Malpractice Appeal: A Win And A Loss For The Parties
In a New York medical malpractice appeal decided on April 2, 2013 by the highest court in New York (New York Court of Appeals), the Court of Appeals stated that a new trial on damages for pain and...
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The Invisible Victims Of Medical Malpractice
We recently received a telephone call from a woman whose husband died from medical malpractice in Maryland. She told us about her husband’s medical condition that was not diagnosed in time despite what...
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Nevada Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Its Products
A large Southern Nevada compounding and specialty pharmacy that ships its products throughout the United States voluntarily recalled its products due to concerns over product sterility. In a press...
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Nevada $500 Million Punitive Damages Verdict For Hepatitis C
On April 9, 2013, a Nevada jury returned a punitive damages award in the amount of $500 million against two affiliates of UnitedHealth Group ($270 million against Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million...
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Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Medical Study Put Premature Infants At Risk
On April 18, 2013, the parents of five Alabama children filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in which they allege that a study conducted at the...
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Tennessee Court Of Appeals Upholds Pre-Suit Notice Requirement
On April 17, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee turned down a constitutional challenge and upheld Tennessee Code Annotated Section 29-26-121, which requires a medical malpractice claimant to...
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$38.5 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict (Plus “Strikes”)
On May 17, 2013, after a month-long trial before a medical malpractice jury in Broward County, Florida, the plaintiffs were awarded $38 million and the two medical malpractice defendant doctors were...
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Frivolous Fears Of Frivolous Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
The rallying call of doctors, hospitals, and their medical malpractice insurance companies and well-paid political lobbyists who fearmonger state and federal legislators with cries that ”frivolous”...
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Nebraska Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict
On May 3, 2013, the Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial court allowed the medical malpractice defendant’s attorney to question one of the...
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North Carolina $4 Million Verdict For Nursing Malpractice
During late April 2013, a Hertford County, North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $4 million to the estate of a deceased patient of a psychiatric acute care inpatient facility who died on...
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New York Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To...
In it’s decision dated May 15, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of New York (“New York Supreme Court”) overturned a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice defendant and ordered that the...
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Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict
In an opinion filed on May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge twice failed to remove...
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South Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawsuits For Sex Reassignment Surgery
A South Carolina couple has filed both a state medical malpractice lawsuit and a federal medical malpractice lawsuit regarding their now 8-year-old adopted child’s sex reassignment surgery that took...
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Washington State Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Plastic Surgeon
On May 2, 2013, six women filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the same plastic surgeon, claiming that the plastic surgeon’s medical negligence caused each of them to suffer unnecessary...
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Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Defendant Anesthesiologist
After six days of trial and three and a half hours of jury deliberations, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant anesthesiologist. The patient sued the anesthesia...
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Sunshine Act To Shed Light On Industry Payments To Physicians
The so-called “Sunshine Act” (The Physician Payments Sunshine Act) is part of the Affordable Care Act that requires the manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologicals that participate in U.S....
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Kentucky Former Cardiologist To Be Sentenced In Stent Fraud Scheme
On June 4, 2013, a former cardiologist in Kentucky pleaded guilty to health care fraud for submitting a claim for an unnecessary cardiac stent procedure that was billed to Medicaid. The 51-year-old...
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New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Jury Rejects Unanimous Medical Malpractice...
Earlier this month, a New Hampshire medical malpractice jury rejected the unanimous decision of a New Hampshire medical malpractice panel that had found in favor of a cardiologist and his cardiology...
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