According to USLaw, the average settlement in a cut bile duct gallbladder medical malpractice case is $250,000.
February 2010 Archives
Two of the most famous medical malpractice cases - at least potentially - in history have occurred in the last year: Joe Murtha and Michael Jackson. In Maryland, we also recently had the St. Joseph's stent debacle which may go down in Maryland history as its most famous medical malpractice cases.
What has surprised a lot of medical malpractice lawyers is how little these cases have reflected the public mood on malpractice. People who learn of these cases simply process them consistent with the world view they already had on the topic of whether malpractice cases are largely meritorious and whether the system needs to be changed.
The Maryland Daily Record reports that a Baltimore City jury ordered a doctor to pay $670,000 to a man who required emergency surgery to remove a portion of his colon because of injuries suffered during a routine colonoscopy in 2006. The doctor allegedly punctured Johnson's colon in several places during the colonscopy according to the complaint. Johnson was taken to the ER at Siani Hospitalwhere surgeons removed some of his colon (Siani was not named in the lawsuit).