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A St. Louis County Court has entered a judgement for the defense in a matter that involved the death of a woman nearly a year after her visit to the emergency room.
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Read More »Jurors side with dentist on claim of failed bridge
A Stone County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of a dentist accused of negligence in both using and improperly installing a cantilevered bridge to replace an extracted premolar tooth, instead of the dental implant that was ultimately used when the bridge failed.
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Read More »Jurors side with hospital on claim of missed infection
A southwest Missouri jury swiftly rejected a woman’s claim that Mercy Clinic Joplin failed to timely identify and treat a skin infection suffered after a crush injury to her left leg.
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Read More »Mother of baby injured at birth settles for $9M with doctor
A child injured at birth and his mother received a $9 million settlement from the doctor involved in the delivery, according to their attorney.
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Read More »Man who lost leg to sepsis wins award in federal court
A man whose lower left leg was amputated in the wake of an infection received a seven-figure verdict in federal court, though it was reduced by Missouri’s damage cap after trial.
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Read More »Late affidavits cancel a man’s negligence claim, says high court
The dismissal of a man’s medical malpractice case will hold after a failed Missouri Supreme Court appeal. When re-filing his suit, his counsel had filed expert affidavits 18 days too late, said the high court.
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Read More »Ambulance district settles after mistaken injection of diabetic
A 74-year-old diabetic who went into a medical coma after a mistaken injection settled with an ambulance district and two paramedics for $1.975 million.
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Read More »Supreme Court rules medical malpractice suit filed too late
The 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. Do you know what is the ...
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Read More »Negligence: Medical Malpractice-Statute of Limitations-Continuing-Care Doctrine
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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Read More »Negligence: Medical Malpractice-Expert Witness-Tort Reform
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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Read More »Jurors clear doctor in contaminated-mesh case
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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