Sentences with phrase «malpractice plaintiff verdict»
An article entitled «Winning a Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Verdict on the Merits,» authored by Jeffrey N. Catalano, a partner at Todd & Weld LLP, was published in the August 2010 edition of Massachusetts Lawyers Journal.
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Dismissing the complaints of tort reformists who argue that inflated jury verdicts in medical - malpractice cases are creating a crisis in the insurance industry, Satin says any plaintiffs» lawyer worth his salt knows that it doesn't pay to take on a bad case hoping for a settlement.
Jordan recently received a jury verdict award in excess of $ 2.2 million in a plaintiff's medical malpractice case against a doctor and a surgical center.
«To summarize, plaintiff now has no negligence claim and no medical malpractice claim, all despite the fact that (a) defendant - hospital openly admitted negligence, (b) a jury determined that this negligence constituted the proximate cause of plaintiff's death, and (c) a jury awarded plaintiff a $ 20 million verdict,» wrote Markman in his ruling.
The Michigan Supreme Court called it a «medical and legal dereliction,» further stating, «To summarize, plaintiff now has no negligence claim and no medical malpractice claim, all despite the fact that (a) defendant - hospital openly admitted negligence, (b) a jury determined that this negligence constituted the plaintiff's cause of death, and (c) a jury awarded plaintiff a $ 20 million verdict.»
Note: due to the high number of medical malpractice cases covered each year, we include only the top 100 plaintiff's verdicts.
A Virginia judge has rejected a defendant doctor's motion for a new trial after a $ 1.95 million medical malpractice verdict for the plaintiff who died following plastic surgery.
The reversal of this verdict highlights a primary element that is necessary for Florida medical malpractice plaintiffs.
$ 2.5 million ($ 4.12 with interest)- Medical Malpractice Middlesex Superior Court Date of verdict: November 2007 Plaintiff's counsel: Suzanne C.M. McDonough and Nicholas D. Cappiello, Lubin & Meyer, Boston
After a jury returned a verdict in favor of the doctor in a medical malpractice case, an estate executor appealed on two questions of abuse of discretion: limitations on the scope of questions during the defendant's deposition, and refusal of jury instructions tendered by the plaintiff.
$ 23.4 Million - Infant injured by «inexperienced» doctor Medical malpractice: Antonelli, et al. v. Halladay Middlesex Superior Court, No. 99 - 4391 Date of verdict: Aug. 17, 2005 Plaintiff's attorney: Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston Status of verdict: Paid, subject to a high - low agreement
He comments on the fact that malpractice lawsuits and plaintiff verdicts have become increasingly rare even though there remains an epidemic of medical errors.
«It's rather startling that in six provinces and three territories there wasn't a single verdict in favour of the plaintiff in 2016,» says Gary Wagner of Wagners, a personal injury law firm based in Halifax that does medical malpractice cases in the four Atlantic provinces and some in Alberta.
«We see more and more the disparity between Ontario awards reported and those that appear across the rest of the country,» he says, pointing to information from the Canadian Medical Protective Association from 2016 that indicate there wasn't a single verdict in favour of a medical malpractice plaintiff in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Atlantic Canada or the Territories.