An appeals court ordered a new trial, saying the plaintiff should have been allowed to ask a defense expert about his advocacy for tort reform.

Tagged with: Amy Revis Dr. Brett Grebing Dr. Donald Bassman Medical Malpractice Case Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District tort reform

A 73-year-old woman reached a $1.75 million settlement in a lawsuit against a hospital and medical personnel who allegedly failed to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess that led to her paralysis, according to the woman’s attorneys. Robert D. Kingsland and ...

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The family of a chef to celebrities and a U.S. president won $1 million for his death after a post-operative emergency room visit. Marcel Bonetti, 73, was head chef of the Pro Bass Shops in Springfield and then personal chef ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court, in a partial reversal of one of its recent opinions, ruled Dec. 10 that the plaintiffs in a medical-malpractice case deserve a new trial. In February, the court threw out a $2.3 million verdict against St. ...

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A jury delivered a medical malpractice verdict of more than $7.68 million to a mother and her son whose brain was damaged by forceps during his August 2016 birth. The Jasper County jury decision found Dr. Larry Clark and Freeman ...

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Platte County jurors decided that a doctor did not commit an error in diagnosing a woman who later needed surgery to repair a hematoma in a deep abrasion. TShanna Long-Young sued Dr. Jason Goergen, alleging that he had failed to ...

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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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