A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $840,000 to a man whose 68-year-old father died following spinal disc surgery, during which the neurosurgeon severed the patient’s left vertebral artery, according to the complaint. After a five-day trial in Baltimore City ...

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Attorneys for Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc. asked a Baltimore judge to set aside or reduce a $229 million birth injury malpractice verdict from earlier this year, arguing that the result was not consistent with the evidence and indicated ...

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A Frederick County jury awarded more than $700,000 to the family of a man who had a fatal heart attack in 2012 days after visiting doctors for chest pain. The jury found the doctor and physician’s assistant at Frederick Primary ...

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A fraud claim brought against Saiontz & Kirk P.A. by a former client's estate will proceed after a Baltimore judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss.

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A Baltimore city jury has awarded $1 million to the family of a 22-year-old woman who died after being improperly treated for a skin infection which developed into a flesh-eating disease. The family of Yenita D. Owens was awarded $500,000 ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has found a pediatrician was not liable for the death of an infant, determining she complied with the standard of care when she examined him days before his death. The parents of Momodo Bundu, who ...

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A North Carolina woman has filed suit against Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore on behalf of herself and her deceased infant daughter, alleging the hospital staff was negligent in releasing her without proper treatment when she went to the emergency ...

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According to the legal-malpractice action, the company's attorney waited more than a year before telling it that its president had been accused of taking a $450,000 loan and refusing to pay it back.

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A judge has ordered the malpractice trial of a western Maryland doctor to be moved to Frederick County.

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Oil-and-gas lawsuits, D.C. firms and alleged malpractice round up this week's law blog roundup

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