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JHU Litigation

Lawsuits filed against Johns Hopkins Medicine have made headlines and sparked debates. A look at three cases: A suit brought by the Orioles' minor-league outfielder Nolan Reimold against Johns Hopkins Hospital for negligent medical care; a $1 billion damage suit for Hopkins' involvement in medical experiments on human subjects in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s; and the $190 million settlement between Johns Hopkins Medicine and patients of Dr. Nikita Levy, the gynecologist who secretly photographed women during exams.