[I updated this post in 2020 with Baltimore-area shoulder dystocia verdicts and settlements at the bottom of this post.] A Baltimore jury yesterday found a doctor responsible for the brain injury and death in 2003 in a shoulder dystocia case and awarded the child’s parents $8.1 million. The damages are…
Virginia Lawyers Weekly reports today on a $1,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice Erb’s palsy case. The interesting thing about this case is that the injuries occurred during a cesarean section. The father of the child claimed he witnessed the obstetrician applying excessive force to the fetal head after the…
A recent study found that juries are more likely to side with doctors in medical malpractice cases. The study showed that juries are skeptical of people and their lawyers who sue their doctors and that most medical malpractice trials result in a verdict for the medical doctors. (See yesterday’s Maryland…
Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Patrick Jeffers re-filed his medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit last week against the Carolina Panthers’ former team doctor. Jeffers had originally brought a medical malpractice claim in 2003, but his lawyers voluntarily dismissed the claim last year. The new medical malpractice lawsuit is virtually identical…
The Maryland Court of Appeals> overturned a lower court in a 4-3 decision in Goldberg v. Boone, a Montgomery County informed consent case. Facts of Goldberg v. Boone Plaintiff underwent a mastoidectomy (an operation on the mastoid bone, which is the prominent bone behind the ear, to remove a cholesteatoma…
Last week, a Baltimore County jury awarded a $2.3 million jury verdict in a stroke misdiagnosis medical malpractice suit in Towson. The trial before Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Dana M. Levitz took six days, and the jury deliberated for seven hours before returning a verdict, according to Plaintiff’s medical…
Yesterday’s USA Today ran a story about the often preventable tragedy of undiagnosed heart attacks. It told the story of James Pettry, who woke early one morning short of breath and sweating profusely. His wife dialed 911. The paramedics gave Mr. Pettry oxygen and aspirin and then used an electrocardiogram…
We have seen an increasing number of recent client calls questioning the quality of the care that a family member or friend is receiving in a nursing home. Over 1.5 million Americans are in nursing homes with 30,000 of them in Maryland. That number is rising fast as America continues…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals today decided the informed consent medical malpractice case of Mahler v. Johns Hopkins University. The court overturned a Baltimore judge’s decision to grant a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict to Johns Hopkins and a defendant doctor. Here, the Plaintiff underwent plastic surgery to…
A Florida jury awarded a Lee County (Naples) woman $8.25 million in a medical malpractice case against her plastic surgeon after she lost both her breasts in a botched breast augmentation surgery. Naples surgeon Dr. Luciano Boemi attempted to give the 28-year-old Plaintiff a breast lift and augmentation in 2003.…