Philip Morris Pays $9.7 Million to Woman Who Got Cancer After Decades of Smoking
A court in Woburn, Massachusetts issued a verdict ordering the tobacco company Philip Morris to pay $9,685,414.00 to a patient whose cancer and other health problems are the result of decades of smoking cigarettes marketed by the company. The company owns many of the most popular cigarette brands sold in the United States, including Marlboro, […]
Nebraska Family Receives $3.3 Million Settlement After Court Rules That Physicians’ Errors Led to Fatal Complications
A court in Nebraska awarded $3.365 million in damages to a plaintiff whose wife went into cardiac arrest several days after undergoing gastric bypass surgery and died several months later. The victim had seven children under the age of 18 at the time of her death. The patient underwent gastric bypass surgery in December […]
How the Daubert Standard Affects Medical Malpractice Cases
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals was a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established the Daubert Standard, a rule of evidence determining whether the testimony of expert witnesses is admissible in a civil or criminal court case. In two other cases in the 1990s, General Electric Co. v. Joiner in 1997 and Kumho […]
Veteran Sues US Government Over Uncommunicated Test Results
What happens when the patient has not been informed that their imaging has revealed a potentially life-threatening condition? Take the case of a forty-four year old Tampa, Florida Marine combat veteran, and his thirty five year old wife, who recently sued the United States in a Florida federal court, for negligence and loss of consortium, […]
20 Million Settlement in Illinois Misdiagnosed Stroke Case
What can go wrong when a lawyer goes to the hospital with a headache? Apparently, a lot! An Illinois judge approved a $20 million settlement in a medical malpractice case whose trial began in Illinois on October 28, 2016. The plaintiff, a former attorney, who suffered brain damage after a visit to Northwestern’s Central […]
Legal Claims Increase with Rising Opioid Use
LEGAL CLAIMS INCREASE WITH RISING OPIOID USE It is now well known that opioid painkiller abuse has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. In fact, it has become so prevalent that opioid analgesics are involved in more medical-malpractice claims related to drug errors than any other class of drugs, according to Coverys, a medical […]