A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $950,000 to an Ellicott City couple who alleged a doctor punctured the wife’s stomach with a misplaced feeding tube and did not check on the tube’s location before releasing her from the hospital.

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Issues for the next attorney general lead news roundup that includes court approval of Florida medmal burden, Yelp's alleged extortion and Wisconsin's AG race.

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A Maryland appeals court has upheld a $20.6 million award to a family whose son suffers from cerebral palsy due to complications during his birth at MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore. The Court of Special Appeals rejected the hospital’s argument ...

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Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a jury to pay $3.27 million to a woman who said a defectively designed vaginal-mesh implant eroded inside her and she had to have surgery.

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In its June decision in Bradford v. JAI Medical Systems Managed Care Organization Inc., Maryland’s Court of Appeals extended legal protections for health plans against malpractice claims in Maryland.

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Compilation of legal news articles includes coverage of Equal Rights Amendment, an Atlanta teachers' cheating scandal and malpractice mediation in Wisconsin.

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A Maryland appeals court took the unusual step last week of assailing a lawyer — in a reported opinion — for his “chronic disregard” of discovery requests and “nonchalant failure” to comply with a judge’s order, misbehavior that the court said justified the judge’s dismissal of the attorney’s medical malpractice case.

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A Baltimore jury awarded a security guard more than $5.2 million after a misdiagnosis of a leg injury led to an amputation days later.

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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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This week, the Maryland State Medical Society released an agenda packed with sure-to-sizzle (though largely familiar) issues it intends to bring up during the General Assembly’s 2014 session, which begins next week.

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