The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, upheld a trial court judgment and four pretrial orders relating to a patient's claims of medical malpractice and medical battery against physicians, and independent claims against a hospital...
The Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas Fort Worth (the "Court") affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a hospital's motion to dismiss liability claims brought by a patient following injuries sustained during a surgical procedure.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida granted summary judgment in favor of a hospital related to claims of race discrimination brought by a Palestinian physician. The Court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the physician's...
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit brought by an orthopedic surgeon claiming that a private hospital violated its bylaws and that its proceedings were fundamentally unfair in deciding to restrict the...
The Supreme Court of California reversed and remanded an appellate court's ruling that a hospital medical executive committee's (MEC) delegation of its authority to select the participants in a fair hearing to the hospital's governing body actually denied a physician a fair...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed a two-count lawsuit brought by a physician against the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (collectively, AAOS) alleging “continued tortious conduct” after AAOS...
The Appellate Court of Connecticut affirmed a lower court’s decision to set aside a jury verdict in favor of a physician in a medical malpractice case after the physician’s attorney violated the state’s peer review statute.
The Court of Appeals of Iowa (the “Court”) reversed a lower court’s decision and ordered the Iowa Board of Medicine (the “Board”) to dismiss a disciplinary action against a physician stemming from incidents involving alcohol dependency.
