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990 F. Supp. 1104 W.D. Arkansas December 24, 1997 No. Civil 97-3027
An employee died while in the care of the hospital department’s physicians and his family brought suit against the railroad company for the negligence of the physicians.
In holding that the supervising physicians were not vicariously liable for the negligence of the x-ray specialist, the court stated: the x-ray specialist ... like the physician and surgeon, unless he expressly contracts to produce
The court held that the physicians could not be held liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior for the negligent acts of the emergency room physicians.
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406 F. Supp. 776 W.D. Arkansas January 13, 1976 No. F-72-C-46
Spence, 150 U.S.App.D.C. 263 , 464 F.2d 722 (1972), a physician’s failure to obtain an informed consent may give rise to a suit for an intentional assault and battery, though *779 such suits are usually brought alleging negligence
In a negligence action the physician is held liable when he inexcusably fails to disclose risks and dangers of the proposed treatment which other members of his profession or specialty would disclose to the patient.
NEGLIGENT TREATMENT In medical malpractice cases the physician must possess the degree of skill and learning ordinarily possessed and used by members of his profession in good standing, engaged in the same type of practice in the
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271 F. Supp. 205 W.D. Arkansas July 31, 1967 No. Civ. 1116
, Shimonek, failed to exercise the degree of skill, care and diligence required of him and that he, Shimonek, was negligent in that he “sutured the palmaris longus tendon” to the median nerve of the arm, which was responsible for the
Physicians and Surgeons § 62; Weintraub v. Rosen, 7 Cir., 93 F.2d 544 .
C.A. § 2671 et seq., for the damages presently resulting from the negligence of the government’s employee doctor in the performance of the operation.
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W.D. Arkansas January 9, 2019 No. 4:18-cv-04017Not cited
Plaintiff also points out that his second amended complaint asserts a negligence claim against “physicians Lemdja and Lomax and other Correct Care Solutions, LLC employees,” and that his complaint clearly identified Defendants Stoner
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W.D. Arkansas November 7, 2018 No. 6:18-cv-06108Not cited
"Deliberate indifference may be demonstrated by prison guards who intentionally deny or delay access to medical care or intentionally interfere with prescribed treatment, or by prison doctors who fail to respond to prisoner's serious
Mere negligence or medical malpractice, however, are insufficient to rise to a constitutional violation." Dulany v. Carnahan, 132 F.3d 1234 , 1239 (8th Cir. 1997) (citation omitted).
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W.D. Arkansas February 10, 2023 No. 5:21-cv-05214Not cited
Plaintiff cannot prove the subjective element of deliberate indifference since they were not personally involved in the actions of which he complains – calling him a liar, sending him back to his pod, not allowing him to see the doctor
, delaying his treatment, and inexperience causing negligence and medical malpractice.
The Supreme Court has explained: [A] complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosis or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.
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W.D. Arkansas February 16, 2018 No. 3:18-cv-03014Not cited
intentionally interfere with prescribed treatment, or by prison doctors who fail to respond to prisoner's serious medical needs.
Mere negligence or medical malpractice, however, are insufficient to rise to a constitutional violation.” Dulany v. Camahan, 132 F.3d 1234 , 1239 (8th Cir. 1997) (citation omitted).
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W.D. Arkansas February 14, 2022 No. 5:21-cv-05132Not cited
We cannot imagine that the General Assembly intended to allow physicians to evade responsibility for negligent acts by knowingly concealing them from their patients until after the statute of limitations had run.” Id.
doctor is a continuing course and the patient’s illness, injury or condition is of such a nature as to impose on the doctor a duty of continuing treatment and care, the statute does not commence running until treatment by the doctor
for the particular disease or condition involved has terminated unless during treatment the patient learns or should learn of negligence, in which case the statute runs from the time of discovery, actual or constructive.
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72 F. Supp. 2d 1051 W.D. Arkansas December 2, 1999 No. CIV. 98-5216
She has also submitted the affidavit of her expert physician indicating that the condition was not caused by the negligence of Drs. Thompson and Creekmore.
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W.D. Arkansas November 14, 2017 No. 5:16-cv-05247Not cited
"Deliberate indifference may be demonstrated by prison guards who intentionally deny or delay access to medical care or intentionally interfere with prescribed treatment, or by prison doctors who fail to respond to prisoner's serious
Mere negligence or medical malpractice, however, are insufficient to rise to a constitutional violation." Dulany v. Carnahan, 132 F.3d 1234 , 1239 (8th Cir. 1997)(citation omitted).
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W.D. Arkansas December 3, 2020 No. 2:19-cv-02088Not cited
More directly, the Arkansas Supreme Court has explained that the locality rule does not exist to “permit[] a doctor in one place to be more negligent than one in another place . . . .
The similar locality rule prevents highly incompetent physicians in a particular town from setting a standard of utter inferiority for the practice of medicine there.”
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W.D. Arkansas May 26, 2021 No. 6:18-cv-06117Not cited
In Magrans, the plaintiffs sued a doctor’s employer for the doctor’s allegedly negligent acts. In their original complaint, the plaintiffs did not name the doctor as a party.
In the case at bar, Plaintiff filed their initial complaint naming CCS, Corizon, Jane Does Nurses 1– 5 and John Does Doctors 6–10 as Defendants. (ECF No. 1, Filed Nov. 12, 2018).
Plaintiff based her negligence claim against CCS on the theory of respondeat superior. On February 13, 2019, Plaintiff filed her first amended complaint but did not name Dr. Gregory McKinney and Dr.
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W.D. Arkansas August 8, 2024 No. 2:24-cv-02067Not cited
This statute, however, creates no express cause of action, much less one under which Plaintiffs may sue doctors and the clinic at which they work for medical negligence.
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539 F. Supp. 908 W.D. Arkansas April 23, 1982 No. Civ. 80-4073
The governing body has a duty to establish procedures that will insure that only qualified doctors provide services to the patients of the hospital in a non-negligent manner, and cannot look the other way simply because some medical
staff committee has decided that a particular doctor can have privileges or continue to have privileges which he desired, even though not qualified.
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499 F. Supp. 2d 1137 W.D. Arkansas August 10, 2007 No. 4:06-cv-04042
counsel for Plaintiffs did not intend to offer expert medical testimony on the issue of liability did not preclude establishment of a prima facie case, nor did the same warrant entry of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant physician
Thus, with a negligence cause of action for prenatal injuries before it, the Arkansas Supreme Court had the opportunity in 1970 to declare that no such cause of action existed.
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163 F. Supp. 193 W.D. Arkansas July 3, 1958 No. 1418
The great weight of authority also establishes the principle that nurses in the discharge of their duties must obey and diligently execute the orders of the physician or surgeon in charge of the patient, unless, of course, such order
was so obviously negligent as to lead any reasonable person to anticipate that substantial injury would result to the patient from the execution of such order or the performance of such direction.
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W.D. Arkansas March 16, 2020 No. 6:19-cv-06087Not cited
Stube rather than her prescribing physician; (2) Plaintiffs fail to state a claim upon which relief may be granted for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and gross negligence; and (3) the complaint’s allegations do not support an
The section in Plaintiffs’ complaint setting out the claim of gross negligence is scarce and largely mirrors Plaintiffs’ allegations for their claim of ordinary negligence.
However, elsewhere in their complaint, they allege that Defendant had a duty to test Xeljanz and adequately warn prescribing physicians of the drug’s side effects.
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196 F. Supp. 871 W.D. Arkansas August 8, 1961 No. 1535
If the maxim, “Res ipsa loquitur,” were applicable to a case like this, and a failure to cure were held to be evidence, however slight, of negligence on the part of the physician or surgeon, causing the bad result, few would be courageous
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W.D. Arkansas August 2, 2021 No. 5:20-cv-05173Not cited
In response, Defendant argues that the references in the New Mexico complaint to an unconsented-to operation on ingrown toenails, see Doc. 2-2, J 9, and claims for negligence in “treating, serving, and caring for Plaintiff's condition
” or “[flailing to act in the manner a reasonably prudent physician would have acted,” id. at | 17, make it possible that the allegations are within the scope of the Policy and give Plaintiff an obligation to defend Defendant in
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W.D. Arkansas February 4, 2020 No. 5:18-cv-05205Not cited
Saez’s treatment was so negligent that it rose to the level of medical malpractice, the law is clear that “[mJerely demonstrating that a prison doctor committed medical malpractice is insufficient to establish deliberate indifference