HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE: $435,518 verdict for failure to timely remove lung clots filter properly vacated for lack of expert testimony as to standard of care… Cooney affirmed. [Read more…]
$435,518 hospital malpractice verdict vacated
HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE: $435,518 verdict for failure to timely remove IVC filter implanted to prevent clots in lungs vacated for lack of expert testimony as to standard of care… amounts also shock conscience of Court… Cooney [Read more…]
$435,518 verdict, hospital malpractice, IVC filter
VERDICT: $435,518, hospital malpractice, failure to timely remove IVC filter which was implanted to prevent clots in lungs following roof-fall fractures. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, fistula bleed death, expert
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Plaintiffs’ standard of care instruction properly rejected, Defendant’s instruction on “mere fact of injury” properly given… fistula bleeding death defense verdict affirmed… Seeley affirmed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, A/V fistula, death
VERDICT: Defense, med-mal, alleged failure to timely revise A/V fistula leading to bleeding death. [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…]
Medical malpractice, breast cancer, defense verdict
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Prospective jurors with relationships with defense counsels’ firms properly not excused for cause… pathologist properly allowed to testify as to breast cancer… any error in instructing on “loss of chance”/apportionment of damages harmless as jury found [Read more…]