Daily News | Philly’s medical malpractice cases surge as new state rule goes into effect
Late last year, the family of a 9-year-old boy who fractured his jaw at a Nemours Children’s Hospital clinic in Montgomery County was ready to sue for negligent care.allowed them to try their case in a Philadelphia courtroom, instead of the county where the injury occurred.Philadelphia juries tend to decide medical malpractice cases in favor of plaintiffs three times more often
who practices with the Philadelphia firm Wapner Newman. The suit claims the child passed out and injured himself in an examination room because hospital staff failed to tell his family he needed to stay off his feet in the minutes immediately after getting his shot.Nemours didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incident, which the lawsuit claims happened at an outpatient clinic in Collegeville.
Cases that started in health systems in West Reading, Bensalem, and Langhorne are among those filed so far this year in Philadelphia’s common pleas civil court.For the past 20 years, Pennsylvania required all medical malpractice cases to be filed in the county where the injury happened, following a rise in the number of court cases and the size of the verdict awards,for boosting the cost of medical liability insurance and driving doctors out of the state.
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