Did a well-known malpractice lawyer commit a potentially disbarrable offense in seeking – perhaps with the threat of a damaging public disclosure – a $25 million consulting gig with the University of Maryland Medical System while representing a woman whose ...
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Medical personnel at Johns Hopkins Hospital released a newborn to her parents four years ago without telling them of a potentially cancerous abnormality discovered in the girl’s adrenal gland, the parents allege in a wrongful-death lawsuit they filed this week ...
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The parents of a 19-year-old who died of an aortic dissection are suing Garrett Regional Medical Center for allegedly failing to diagnose the condition when he visited the emergency room days before his death. Josiah A. Friend went to the ...
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Read More »Baltimore-based Wais, Vogelstein, Forman & Offutt LLC announced last month that it will be opening a Chicago office to expand its birth injury and medical negligence practice. The firm, which boasts more than $400 million in birth injury verdicts and ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland hospitals will take a new crack at getting lawmakers to create a fund to compensate families of babies injured during birth, an attempt that has taken on new urgency following a record $229 million verdict against Johns ...
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A Baltimore jury awarded more than $5.8 million to the family of a woman who died from complications following a heart valve replacement at a University of Maryland Medical System facility in 2016. Elsie Mae Mason had valve replacement surgery on ...
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A Prince George’s County jury awarded $900,000 Tuesday to a couple whose unborn daughter died when a doctor failed to recognize a pregnancy complication. Marquita Cook and Jonathan Ramsey’s daughter, Journie, died in the womb at approximately 35 weeks in ...
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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded more than $6.2 million to an Annapolis man whose severely injured right leg was belatedly treated at a Cheverly hospital, medical negligence that necessitated the amputation of the leg. The man, who had ...
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A Baltimore jury found the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center was not at fault in the death of a man who jumped from a fifth-floor hospital window in 2015 while in the custody of the Baltimore County Department ...
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A Baltimore city circuit judge this week slashed more than $24 million from what had been a $229.6 million birth injury malpractice award against Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc., citing Maryland’s cap on non-economic damages. But Judge Audrey J.S. ...
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