SANCTIONS: $156,651.75 attorney fees, $5,416.47 costs, against defense counsel for untimely PTO response in hospital malpractice case… H. Brown. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, hospital death, HCM
VERDICT: Defense (negligence but no causation), hospital malpractice, death of patient with pre-existing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice rulings, rebuttal disclosures
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Rulings on expert/rebuttal disclosures in heart attack case against hospital involving issues of oxygen saturation, unnamed hospital doctors… fact issues as to breach of standard of care precludes summary judgment for Plaintiff on liability… hospital’s motion for summary judgment based on “judicial admissions” by Plaintiff’s counsel rejected… J. Brown. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, cystic fibrosis child
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, claim that had Plaintiff known daughter would be born with cystic fibrosis she would have terminated pregnancy. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, hysterectomy
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, alleged unnecessary hysterectomy without proper consent and with complications. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, expert, post-myelogram death
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Non-radiologist infection specialist qualified on whether failure of radiologist to wear mask during myelogram violated infection control standard as to radiologist [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, expert, myelogram mask
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Claim that failure to wear mask during myelogram resulted in lethal infection dismissed because expert [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, cancer patient death causation
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Summary judgment proper for hospital and doctor on causation of death of cancer patient (metastasized [Read more…]
Discovery, twins policy, non-party hospital
DISCOVERY: Document in possession of non-party hospital concerning delivery of twins discoverable in suit against sister [Read more…]
Discovery, hospital records, “Patient X”
DISCOVERY: Motion to compel granted, motion for protective order granted and denied, as to hospital report of “Patient X” who [Read more…]