Four jurors who helped decide one of Tennessee’s largest medical malpractice lawsuits are claiming they felt coerced into finding the gastroenterologist at fault for Plaintiff’s injuries. This sad case involved a relatively simple procedure – a colonoscopy and endoscopy – on a 33-year-old woman. A day later, complications from the…
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences. The site has multiple atlas images, including sectional and MRI images, of the brain and spinal cord. (I found this link via the Tennessee Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog.
President Obama’s mad dash for health care reform – which I think is a good thing – might lead him to take a position on medical malpractice reform that puts him in direct conflict with medical malpractice lawyers who have been major donors to President Obama and the Democratic Party.…
A Beaumont, Texas man has filed a medical malpractice suit against a local doctor, alleging a needle negligently left inside his body during surgery perforated his bladder. According to the suit filed in Jefferson County District Court, the doctor – a long time general surgeon in Beaumont – failed to…
The Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog has a post with a link to a Miami Herald article on a 12-year-old boy who died of serotonin syndrome. The mother of the boy filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit last week in Miami-Dade circuit court, claiming the child’s psychiatrist, and the…
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a Hamilton County jury found that a local, prominent gastroenterologist must pay $12 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a colonoscopy and endoscopy, which were meant to diagnose a 33-year-old woman’s bowel problems, left the plaintiff with serious brain damage. “It is…
Maryland’s average malpractice award payment is nearly $320,000, according to a study by the American College of Emergency Physicians. This is in line with the average settlement or verdict nationally of $285,000. The following is a sampling of medical malpractice verdicts and settlements from Maryland: 2020, Baltimore City: $1,355,722 Verdict.…
The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog wrote a post on Friday that analyzes a new 34 page Maryland Court of Special Appeals opinion fee dispute between a referring lawyer and the Maryland malpractice lawyer to whom he referred a failure to diagnose cancer case. The case sheds interesting light on the…
Jury Verdict Research reports on recovery probabilities in the following types of medical malpractice case: Foreign Objects Left in Body 66% Postsurgical Infection 43% Catheterization 39% Failed Sterilization 35% Lack of Informed Consent 25% Certainly, our Maryland malpractice lawyers have seen a rise in the number of complaints of post-surgery…
Yes, there are still medical malpractice lawsuits in Texas. It just requires an incredibly serious case. A Dallas County jury last week decided such a case, awarding $17.5 million to a former maintenance man for a North Dallas apartment complex who lost his arms and legs from a staph infection.…