Although a hospital radiology employee testified during deposition that she was not the “supervisor” for a trainee when they worked together to perform an x-ray on plaintiff patient, a Charlottesville Circuit Court says nothing in the deposition changes the court’s ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court grants a plea of sovereign immunity to two defendant physicians in this medical malpractice suit alleging ordinary negligence in plaintiff’s labor and delivery. Plaintiff alleges defendants deviated from the standard of care in a variety of ...

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Two resident physicians in training at University of Virginia Hospital, in anesthesiology and neurology, respectively, have sovereign immunity from this medical malpractice action filed by a patient who alleges injury from their care, says a Charlottesville Circuit Court. The decision ...

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Nurses in a University of Virginia Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit do not have the protection of sovereign immunity from the $2-million claim of a newborn who lost an arm allegedly as a result of an improperly placed catheter ...

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A Charlottesville Circuit Court denies pleas of sovereign immunity by defendant nurses on a med-mal claim alleging one nurse negligently placed a peripherally inserted catheter central line in the premature infant plaintiff’s right arm, and another nurse failed to notice ...

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Plaintiff’s decedent was her 18-year-old daughter who suffered from a ventricular septal defect (VSD) with aortic insufficiency and suspected aortic valve incompetence. She sought care from the defendant, a cardiothoracic surgeon, who recommended an elective procedure to correct those problems. ...

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