KB v Guhle: Missed Pediatric Sepsis, Diagnostic Anchoring, and Catastrophic Injury Damages
Alberta court awards over $16.5 million to child who suffered quadruple amputation after delayed recognition of bacterial superinfection in pediatric RSV.
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Causation: Medical Malpractice and Intervening Acts at the LSO Motor Vehicle Litigation Summit
Medical malpractice as an intervening act in MVA cases. A Baines v Abounaja analysis from Paul’s 2025 LSO Motor Vehicle Litigation Summit presentation.
Ricottone v Long: Thunderclap Headache, SAH Differential, and Counterfactual Causation
BC court dismisses ED malpractice claim involving missed subarachnoid hemorrhage where patient lacked thunderclap headache and the bleed had not yet occurred.
A Cancer Diagnosis Without a Biopsy, Unnecessary Palliative Treatment, and a Settlement
A settlement on behalf of a patient diagnosed with terminal metastatic cancer based on imaging alone, who lived for an extended period under a wrong diagnosis.
Bradley v Wang: SIRVA, Injection Landmarking, and the Resident Physician Standard of Care
Ontario court awards over $1 million to nurse with chronic shoulder injury from improper tetanus injection by family medicine resident at SOC trial.
Fedoriuk v Howard: But-For Phrasing and the Jury Particulars Question in Delayed Diagnosis
Ontario mid-trial ruling adopts but-for phrasing for jury causation questions in delayed diagnosis aneurysm case but declines to require jurors to give reasons.
O’Brien v Lochab: Recognized Complications, Factual Disputes, and the Limits of Negligence
Ontario court dismisses orthopaedic malpractice claim after finding hip replacement subsidence was osteointegration failure, a recognized complication, not negligence.
Crawford Estate v Aouida: Anesthetic Choice, Informed Consent, and Hemodynamic Management
New Brunswick court holds anesthesiologist negligent in death of 36-year-old patient with severe obesity and sepsis after spinal anesthesia choice and management.
CPSO v Duic: Missed Peritonitis, Premature Discharge, and the Emergency Medicine Standard of Practice
Ontario ER physician suspended after sending home a 19-year-old with a peritonitic abdomen; she died of septic shock. CPSO v Duic, 2025 ONPSDT 11.