Jury Awards $30M To Family Of 23-Year-Old Who Died From Ulcer

Feb 20, 2024 Courtroom, Daily, Damages, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Patient Safety, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Verdicts Comments Off on Jury Awards $30M To Family Of 23-Year-Old Who Died From Ulcer

You don’t often hear about the frivolous and stubborn defenses that anger juries. David Dickey, who represents Hannah Waite’s parents, told Law360 on Friday that he proposed settlements of $250,000 to each doctor, but the defense refused and made no offers of their own. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/1803831?nl_pk=029cff45-637f-44e3-babf-75563f8e0bfd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=personal-injury-medical-malpractice&utm_content=2024-02-20&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0?copied=1

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A major victory for Maya’s family, their lawyers, and patients everywhere. I cannot overstate how impressive this work is under difficult circumstances.

Nov 13, 2023 Access to Courts, Appeals, Children, Daily, Damages, Hospitals, Juries, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Medical Records, News, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Trials, Verdicts Comments Off on A major victory for Maya’s family, their lawyers, and patients everywhere. I cannot overstate how impressive this work is under difficult circumstances.

A Florida jury tacked on $50 million in punitive damages to a roughly $211 million award to the family of Maya Kowalski, the child at the center of the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya,” against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital for mistreating Maya to the point that her mother took her own life. Read […]

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The Impact Rule

Oct 30, 2023 Access to Courts, Appeals, Courts, Daily, Damages, Law Comments Off on The Impact Rule

In many states, including Florida, a physical impact is required for a plaintiff to recover mental and emotional damages for most torts. There are exceptions for the most egregious misconduct – when some people without any physical impact can recover mental and emotional damages. I have litigated that question successfully on appeal. You can read […]

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Iowa Court Overturns $6M Nursing Home Negligence Verdict

Jun 23, 2023 Appeals, Clients, Daily, Damages, Elder Abuse, Evidence, Falls, Juries, Trials Comments Off on Iowa Court Overturns $6M Nursing Home Negligence Verdict

On appeal, Timely Mission argues that a new trial is warranted because the jury heard improper testimony from nursing home staff members that a certified nursing assistant, Melanie Blakesley, had physically and verbally abused residents other than Weaver. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/1691891?nl_pk=029cff45-637f-44e3-babf-75563f8e0bfd&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=personal-injury-medical-malpractice&utm_content=2023-06-23&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=6?copied=1 From the website page summarizing my experience in nursing home injuries The health […]

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The Line Between Relevance and Privacy for Plaintiffs Can Be Thin (but still exists in some places)

May 11, 2023 Courts, Daily, Damages, Discovery, Evidence, Medical Error, Medical Malpractice, Medical Records Comments Off on The Line Between Relevance and Privacy for Plaintiffs Can Be Thin (but still exists in some places)

An Illinois court ruled that a defendant doctor’s legal team could not have access to the plaintiff’s mental health records because they were not relevant to the claims. “From the limited record, Dr. Rao practices at a clinic that specialized in lung issues. Plaintiff was there presumably seeking treatment for lung issues. Nowhere in the […]

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Temporary Like Achilles

Feb 3, 2023 Access to Courts, Civics, Damages, Ethics, History, Negligence, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Trials, Weekly Comments Off on Temporary Like Achilles

Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them. Virgil Like all else, misfortunes are temporary but not fleeting. They are often not necessary or destined. Many are preventable. Those that could have been prevented are often caused by negligence. Rather than submit passively to them like a victim, fight them boldly. […]

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Iatrogenic Injuries

Jan 17, 2023 Daily, Damages, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Peer Review, Physicians, Statistics, Surgery, Wrongful Death Comments Off on Iatrogenic Injuries

Numerous errors and medicolegal aspects have been identified in diagnosing and treating cardiac tamponade associated with cardiac-related procedures such as valve replacement surgeries, cardiac pacemaker implantation, pericardiocentesis, and other non-cardiac related procedures such as peri-hiatal surgeries. Patients taking anticoagulants or anticancer medications are especially susceptible to developing cardiac tamponade when undergoing surgical procedures, raising the […]

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