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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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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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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In a rare move, the Missouri Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider a February ruling in which it overturned a $2.3 million verdict against a Kansas City-area surgical center. The original ruling said the plaintiffs had failed to prove the ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a $2.3 million verdict against a Kansas City-area surgical center, citing a lack of proof that the facility was negligent in providing credentials to the surgeon who operated on the plaintiff.

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  Where a plaintiff sued a surgery center claiming that it negligently granted surgical privileges to a surgeon who injured him during a gall bladder-removal procedure, the jury verdict for the plaintiff is reversed because the plaintiff failed to present ...

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