A Jury Verdict Research study looked at jury verdicts. This data is old but still telling. Oklahoma would at first glance appear to be an awful place for lawyers to try personal injury cases. The median compensation award in Oklahoma trials is $6,824 and plaintiffs receive a recovery in only…
Metro Verdicts Monthly looks at median settlements and verdicts in all civil rights cases in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia since 1987. (This data is a bit older but I think it is still accurate.) The median civil rights award in Maryland is $90,000. The median in Washington…
Federal prosecutors have announced that Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore has agreed to pay the federal government nearly $800,000 in order to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to health benefits programs between January 2005 and December 2008. The government alleges that Good Samaritan claimed malnutrition as a secondary…
A federal jury in Waco, Texas has awarded six million dollars in a truck accident case to a man critically injured when his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer in March 2006. The plaintiff lost four fingers on his left hand and can no longer walk without assistance because of injuries…
Two recent medical malpractice cases regarding emergency room physicians raise the question of who should a patient trust for their ultimate diagnosis after an emergency room visit. The first case involves a woman who was awarded $10 million for the death of her 73-year-old husband whose premature death she claimed…