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By Emily Cousins | August 18, 2023
"Even though the providers made that claim, it is apparent that the insurance carriers continued to charge premiums for malpractice," Robert C. Lubus Jr. of Grady & Riley said. "Here, the Connecticut Supreme Court made it clear that in order to use the executive order as a shield, the malpractice had to have some relation to COVID or to a lack of resources caused by COVID. The facts of our case are such that we are confident that the nursing home will never be able to sustain this burden."
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By VerdictSearch | August 17, 2023
On Feb. 21, 2020, plaintiff, Marco Graziani, 29, a police officer, underwent an open reduction with internal fixation of a fractured right ankle. Dr. Jeffrey Kann was the surgeon. Graziani subsequently developed compartment syndrome, necessitating additional surgeries and resulting in an altered gait.
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By Charles Toutant | Colleen Murphy | August 11, 2023
A woman whose bowel was perforated during spinal surgery received payment of a $1.1 million settlement in her Essex County medical malpractice suit, Franco…
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By Aleeza Furman | August 10, 2023
Temple argued that paying the verdict in full would cut into its operating budget and hurt its ability to pay for necessary equipment, a concern it said is exacerbated by a landscape of increasingly costly medical malpractice litigation.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 7, 2023
The assertion is the leading argument in HUP's 85-page brief supporting its motion for post-trial relief after the hospital was hit with Pennsylvania's largest-ever reported medical malpractice verdict.
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By Paula Sweeney | August 4, 2023
Litigants should emphasize less obvious economic losses such as loss of household services, which can form a significant and very real financial loss to a family.
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By VerdictSearch | August 3, 2023
On Feb. 1, 2017, plaintiff Robert Quigley, a construction manager in his late 30s, presented to Gwynedd Dental Associates, LLC, after having not seen a dentist in two years. The facility performed an X-ray which allegedly showed a cancerous tumor in his jaw. The practice categorized the pathology as a bony anomaly, and allegedly did not tell Quigley about the finding or what had to be done to investigate.
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By Cedra Mayfield | Alex Anteau | August 1, 2023
"[W]e respected and appreciated the jury's clear message to Dr. Pinkney following the verdict that his participation in, and behavior portrayed in that video, as a physician in this community, was unacceptable and warranted their admonishment to him personally," said plaintiff counsel Susan M. Witt of Witt Law Group in Atlanta.
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By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier | July 31, 2023
In personal injury and medical malpractice actions in which plaintiffs have alleged they sustained injuries that have impaired their abilities to engage in their normal activities, it is not uncommon for the defendants to hire investigators to surveille and make video recordings of the plaintiff that may appear to refute, or confirm, the nature and degree of the impairment.
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By Riley Brennan | July 28, 2023
"A person without the pertinent medical knowledge can assess whether Dr. Lui's conduct was within the standard of care when he mistakenly removed a portion of a patient's pancreas instead of the adrenal gland during an operation to remove the adrenal gland," Judge Amy F. Cline wrote on behalf of the Kansas Court of Appeals.
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