VERDICT: Ophthalmologist malpractice, $5,766 cost of surgery and 2 pairs of glasses, admitted error as to proper lens power in 2nd cataract surgery. [Read more…]
Med-mal expert, failure to timely diagnose cancer
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Proposed expert properly found not qualified as to standard of care for Defendants as to failure to timely diagnose cancer… Rieger affirmed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, breast cancer
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, alleged mammogram misreading leading to double mastectomy. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, expert, ER physician/internist
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Emergency physician qualified to opine that internist failed to timely diagnose & treat emergent ischemic bowel in ER… standard not only “substantially similar,” but identical across specialties in this context… Irigoin. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, spinal shunt
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, death from medication for pain & disability allegedly caused by nerve injury from spinal [Read more…]
$1,720,000 verdict, heart failure death
VERDICT: $1,720,000, med-mal death, failure of primary care physician to refer patient with heart condition to cardiologist [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, consent, PTC surgery
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Defendant’s summary judgment motion improperly addressed (and granted) before Plaintiffs’ motion to amend to add claim for lack of informed consent as to alternatives to surgery for PTC based on neurosurgeon’s [Read more…]
Verdict, defense, med-mal, epidural injection
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, claimed CRPS in arms resulting from epidural injection. [Read more…]
Jury, ill juror, treating med-mal Defendant
JURY/PROCEDURE: Mistrial or new trial should have been granted when juror became ill during Plaintiff’s lawyer’s “channeling” of decedent and was attended by Defendant physician… Appellant Plaintiff properly ordered to provide entire transcript on appeal, not just juror issue part… [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, anesthesia delay
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: At least one anesthesiologist “immediately available” during emergency c-section that resulted in brain-damaged twin… claim of failure to deliver timely anesthesia properly rejected on summary judgment for failure to produce expert testimony of breach of [Read more…]