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…
On Tuesday, the American Transportation Research Institute, the research arm of the American Trucking Association, released the results of its industry analysis of the use of recorders to monitor driver hours. The study showed that few fleets use electronic onboard recorders, but those that report increased driver morale. This research…
On July 31st, the Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer Blog wrote a blog post about the concerns sitting Baltimore City Circuit Court judges John C. Themelis, Gale E. Rasin, and Barry G. Williams had about their “alphabetically challenged” last names in this year’s election. It appears as these sitting Baltimore judges…
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…
Last month, the Maryland Court of Appeals decided Food Lion v. McNeill. The issue in McNeill is whether the testimony of an expert may be excluded at trial based on a disclosure made during discovery in response to interrogatories, that has neither been claimed nor determined to be a discovery…
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.…
Medical malpractice plaintiffs receive a median award of $934,487 for medical malpractice claims involving surgical negligence and improper medication, according to a recent Jury Verdict Research study that looked at malpractice cases nationally in the last seven years. Plaintiffs have a 36% chance of prevailing in these cases. The following…
There are a variety of treatment modalities to treat blocked coronary arteries: drugs, bypass surgery, and vessel-clearing procedures like angioplasty. In Elyria, Ohio, doctors are four times more likely to direct patients towards angioplasty. This procedure typically involves threading balloon catheters through arteries and sometimes placing drug-coated stents to unblock…
In Maryland, to bring a medical malpractice complaint against a doctor, you must get a certificate of merit by a medical doctor that the negligent doctor breached the standard of care and caused injury to the injured plaintiff. The qualifications of the medical doctor depend on the subject of the…
The Baltimore Sun ran a story today about Baltimore County, Maryland prosecutor James Gentry was preparing to try an awful murder case of a nine-year-old girl in 1998. If you are a prosecutor, this is one you need to win. Looking for an extra edge, he turned to his sister…