Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Audrey S. Carrion denied Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s motion for a new trial after a jury awarded a record $299.6M judgment against the hospital
How are hospital administrators accountable in medical negligence cases? While physicians and nurses deliver healthcare directly to patients, the hospital’s leadership is responsible for implementing the policies and procedures that
The rules of evidence recognize that treating physicians may testify as fact witnesses and/or expert witnesses provided the parties make appropriate disclosures. As the doctor who examined a plaintiff before
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report indicating that the total number of reported vector-borne disease cases involving ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas tripled between
Urology deals with the medical treatment of diseases of the urinary tract. Urologists are M.D.s who complete five years of specialty training during a postgraduate residency in urology. Those who
This year has seen increasing litigation against 3M by military veterans for injuries arising from the company’s Combat Arms Earplugs. Between 2003 and 2015, 3M (and its predecessor Aearo Technologies)
Earlier this year, the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School took a comprehensive look at compensatory damages caps by state. Not surprisingly, while few states limit
The family of Sarah Crayton will receive a $2.6M settlement in the medical malpractice case against the University of Chicago Medical Center and cardiologist Dr. Mardi Gomberg-Maitland. Crayton died in
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of chemicals manufactured since the 1940s, have been getting significant attention in the last year. Just recently, Denmark became the first country to
Doctors, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners are all professionally obligated to order the appropriate tests to diagnose potentially fatal conditions like cancer in a timely way. In Doctors Kept Dismissing
Investigations into the health risks of breast implants have been going on since the 1980s. Since 2011, one area of focus has been on complaints alleging that textured breast implants
Every year as many as 1.2 million laparoscopic cholecystectomies (CCY) (or gallbladder removal surgery) are performed in the U.S. making it one of the most commonly performed operations in the
Terry Lee Courts filed a medical negligence lawsuit against internist Matthew Harris M.D, in West Virginia’s Cabell Circuit Court (case number 19-C-284). Mr. Courts is the administrator of the estate
Roundup® is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Manufactured by Monsanto, it is a glyphosate-based herbicide that has been available since the mid-1970s. In 2015, the International Agency for
Dr. Rui Amaral Mendes, associate editor of BMJ Case Reports, writes that doctors need to listen carefully to their patients and build a timeline of what happened rather than relying
