The Missouri Supreme Court ruled March 31 that a woman who alleged she was left infertile by a 2012 surgery cannot sue, despite having continued to receive care for several years at the same clinic. Sharon Newton underwent surgery at ...

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Where plaintiffs brought a medical malpractice action against a clinic and a doctor claiming that the doctor provided negligent post-operative care following an ovarian cyst-removal procedure, allegedly resulting in an infection and infertility, the two-year statute of limitations began running ...

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Where a plaintiff challenged a judgment following a jury verdict for the defendant doctor in her medical malpractice case, the trial court did not err in admitting medical expert testimony that met sufficient reliability criteria, and the judgment is affirmed ...

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A Kansas jury ruled that a doctor properly advised a Lee’s Summit man who encountered ongoing post-operative problems due to contaminated mesh. “It was a fairly straightforward case,” said defense attorney Jeff K. Brown of Logan, Logan & Watson. “A ...

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Where a woman, who developed an infection following a tummy-tuck surgery, sought an equitable garnishment from a health care insurer to satisfy a $500,000 judgment against her doctor, the judgment is affirmed because the trial court properly determined that the ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District affirmed a nearly $870,000 verdict for the family of a man who died of complications from prostate surgery at a Sikeston hospital. Roosevelt Rhoden underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate at Missouri ...

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The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Dec. 24 affirmed a nearly $1.36 million verdict for a woman who miscarried after doctors failed to treat her for an infection. However, the court added, the award must be reduced by ...

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Defendant appealed from the jury verdict entered against it in the medical-malpractice, wrongful-death case filed by plaintiffs after decedent, an admitted high-risk candidate for surgery, died from complications following surgery. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court erroneously charged ...

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Jurors in St. Louis County found two physicians were not liable when a patient lost an eye after developing a rare infection. Philip Willman of Brown & James defended Pepose Vision Institute and its retina specialist Nancy Holekamp in the ...

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Plaintiff filed a medical-malpractice action against his surgeon, alleging the surgeon caused damage during the surgery. Plaintiff settled with the surgeon and moved to trial against defendant hospital, alleging it negligently granted surgical privileges to the surgeon. The jury returned ...

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A Jackson County jury awarded slightly more than $1 million in damages to a Kansas City woman who alleged she suffered a botched tubal ligation. Kathleen M. Hagen of Watson & Dameron, who represented plaintiff Maria Ordinola Velasquez, said she ...

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