The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether the plaintiffs in a medical-malpractice verdict the court overturned earlier this year should get a new trial. The court on Sept. 4 heard a rare second round of arguments in the case. In ...

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A St. Louis County jury has sided with a Bridgeton radiologist and the clinic where he worked in a wrongful-death lawsuit that alleged he failed to diagnose the ischemic colitis that led to a 59-year-old patient’s death in 2011. Hakim ...

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St. Louis County jurors awarded nearly $1.36 million to a woman who alleged that she miscarried after doctors at a Fenton Hospital sent her home with a blood infection. “She had kidney stones, and she had an infection that went ...

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An acid reflux patient whose esophagus was torn during surgery won a $1.71 million verdict against the surgeon and an Arkansas physicians’ practice. James Gary Cooper sued Dr. Jeffrey D. Kellar and Ozark Surgical Associates in 2017 for medical malpractice ...

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A Johnson County, Kansas, jury sided with a radiologist sued by a patient who alleged that he failed to timely diagnose her breast cancer. Laurie J. Hamilton, 67, alleged that an October 2016 mammogram showed a 3.7-centimeter lesion in her ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District has ruled an insurance company does not have to pay a $870,625 jury award to the widow of a man who died after treatment by an ear, nose and throat physician. The physician, ...

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A woman who suffers from a speech impediment after a dental procedure gone awry won $2.5 million in damages from a St. Louis County jury. Christina Bojorquez sued Dr. Thomas O’Keefe and his dental practice in 2016 for her injuries ...

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Kaplan v. Mayo Clinic (MLW No. 70164/Case No. 15-2855 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Smith, J.)

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