A Salisbury cardiologist has been indicted in federal court on charges stemming from the doctor’s giving patients unnecessary stents. Many patients have already filed civil lawsuits in Salisbury claiming medical malpractice for the unnecessary stents. The debacle at St. Joe’s has caused a fresh look into every doctor who has…
This month’s Metro Verdicts Monthly provides the median verdict/settlement in Maryland wrongful death cases for victims over the age of 65 is $600,000. I always caution about misleading figures, but this number is beyond misleading (through no fault of MVM). The data measures Maryland wrongful death settlements and verdicts in…
I wrote last week about the re-trial of a medical malpractice case in Illinois that discussed the issue of juror misconduct. You can find the article on the verdict here. After that post, the jury reached a defense verdict after about two hours of deliberation. It is hard to win…
The Madison St. Clair Record has an article on a medical malpractice case that is in its sixth day of the second time trying the case. The case alleges failure to diagnose skin cancer. Interestingly, the first case ended in a mistrial after a defense verdict when it was discovered…
This is a sample Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit. The links on the right of the document provide other examples of motions, pleadings and discovery in Maryland medical malpractice lawsuits. We provide a lot of medical malpractice samples on our website for the Maryland malpractice lawyer who wants to see how…
A Florida appeals court gave an interesting ruling in Kristensen-Kepler v. Cooney on the question of whether there was potential liability against an ambulatory surgical center. Plaintiff’s wrongful death claim was that the ambulatory surgical center’s anesthesiologist negligently caused an infection in decedent’s spine. The court found that the surgery…
The Maryland Daily Record has an article today on a defense verdict in a claim against Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Hartford County. The claim was not against a doctor but the nursing staff. From reading the article, it sounds like a tough case in a difficult jurisdiction.
I had the pleasure today to compute post judgment interest in a case we won at trial and on appeal. Maryland’s post-judgment interest rate is 10%. Unfortunately, the interest does not compound so the real rate of interest declines over time. In fairness to parties that win at trial only…
The median medical malpractice jury award in Maryland, according to Jury Verdict Research, was $500,000 in 2003, the last year for which I could find data. Verdicts that year ranged from $54,521 to $7,708,064. One study indicates that the average award in Maryland malpractice claims (presumably claims that are reported…
A recent Jury Verdict Research study looking at jury verdicts found that the average wrongful death verdict for men is $4,132,576 and the median is $1,400,000. The average wrongful death verdict for women is $3,158,223, and the median is $1,200,000. It is tempting to look at these numbers and provide an…