A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.75 million to the family of a man who died in 2014 after a doctor failed to give him a CT scan when he went to the emergency room with chest pains. Thomas Rochfort, 65, ...

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A Montgomery County jury has awarded $2 million to a woman who suffers complications caused by spinal surgery. A jury of five women and one man found Thursday that orthopedic surgeon Navinder Singh Sethi and Potomac Valley Orthopaedic Associates failed ...

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Saying there’s no double dipping in civil litigation, a unanimous Maryland high court this week barred a car-crash victim from pursuing a subsequent medical malpractice claim after finding she was fully compensated for all injuries by the auto insurance company. ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Hospital attorneys battled plaintiffs’ lawyers Wednesday over legislation to create a dedicated no-fault fund to compensate families of babies injured during birth. Under the legislation, families of injured babies would waive their right to sue. Appearing before a Senate ...

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Maryland’s top court has reinstated a $329,000 medical malpractice verdict after concluding that the trial judge’s failure to instruct the jury clearly about a doctor’s heightened standard of care in a personal injury case did not affect the jurors’ decision. ...

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A Somerset County woman who claims a home care nurse’s negligence caused the death of her 34-month-old disabled child filed suit in federal court Monday. Sarah A. Wilford filed suit in U.S. District Court in Baltimore alleging medical malpractice by ...

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A Montgomery County jury awarded $1.3 million to the parents of a man who did not receive prompt medical care after going to the hospital with chest pain and died of complications from a heart attack. The verdict found the emergency ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded nearly $295,000 to a Hyattsville man who had to undergo two total hip replacement surgeries within 18 days, after the hip prosthetic in the first surgery was misaligned.

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Patients’ mistreatment of themselves before seeking medical care cannot later serve as a doctor’s defense against a malpractice claim, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled last week.

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Florida's cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractices casess remained valid and unchallenged until recently, when an injured patient successfully overturned it, a decision with ramifications likely to reverberate far outside of the state.

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