{"id":1318,"date":"2024-06-12T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/missouri-court-affirms-800k-judgement-against-psychiatrist-for-vyvanse-death\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:33:21","slug":"missouri-court-affirms-800k-judgement-against-psychiatrist-for-vyvanse-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/missouri-court-affirms-800k-judgement-against-psychiatrist-for-vyvanse-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Court Affirms $800K Judgement Against Psychiatrist For Vyvanse Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Despite finding an expert witness\u2019s differential diagnosis and opinion to be unreliable, the Missouri Court of Appeals concluded that other substantial evidence at trial tended to prove a patient\u2019s death occurred from an alleged Vyvanse-induced stroke and upheld a $801,000 damages award against a St. Louis-area psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1KsuGREWU_p0hDBAJzmUxQfz6Bn_bJwyG\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">June 11 opinion<\/a>, authored by Missouri Court of Appeals Judge\u00a0Cristian M. Stevens, the court concluded that while there was an \u201cobvious problem\u201d\u00a0with the plaintiff\u2019s expert\u2019s opinion, who had never encountered or reviewed a case in which a person had a stroke and died from Vyvanse use,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">it declined to reverse the judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite finding an expert witness\u2019s differential diagnosis and opinion to be unreliable, the Missouri Court of Appeals concluded that other substantial evidence at trial tended to prove a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1861,465,143,973,1862,617,1863,1864],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-800k","tag-affirms","tag-court","tag-death","tag-judgement","tag-missouri","tag-psychiatrist","tag-vyvanse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}