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August 30, 2022 | Daily Business Review

All the Banks, Billionaires and VCs Sucked Into Twitter v. Musk

Here are the people and firms each side has subpoenaed so far.

By Jennah Haque, Patricia Hurtado and Elizabeth L. T. Moore

7 minute read

August 19, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Notice of Entry in the NYSCEF Era

Now that NYSCEF is standard for appeals throughout the state, serving notice of entry is easier than ever. But variation among the judicial departments has created confusion and opened the possibility for gamesmanship.

By David J. Goldsmith and John Moore

5 minute read

August 01, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Dead Man's Statute: A Potentially Powerful Evidentiary Rule

This column discusses the Dead Man's Statute and decisional law addressing its potential application in both circumstances.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

13 minute read

July 13, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Social Platforms Fail to Keep LGBTQ+ Users Safe, GLAAD Says

TikTok updated its Community Guidelines to explicitly prohibit misgendering, deadnaming, the practice of referring to trans people by the name they were assigned at birth, and misogyny, after prompting by GLAAD, an organization that fights hate against gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people, and UltraViolet, a female-empowerment organization.

By Elizabeth Moore

5 minute read

June 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Liability for Violating Directives To Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment

A person's right to decide to forgo life-sustaining treatment is recognized in this state, but whether a violation of that right gives rise to liability in tort has somehow been called into question.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

14 minute read

April 04, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Departure From Accepted Standards: Navigating the Hindsight Rule

The rule prohibiting hindsight in medical malpractice actions is often the subject of misapplication and misuse. In their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas Moore and Matthew Gaier clear things up by distinguishing the type of subsequent evidence that is prohibited as impermissible hindsight from admissible deductions based on circumstantial evidence.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

12 minute read

January 31, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Quality Assurance Privilege and Party Statements

One area of statutory privilege that has implications for medical malpractice actions is that relating to hospital quality assurance review and malpractice prevention programs under Education Law §6527(3), Public Health Law §2805-j and Public Health Law §2805-m. The statutes, however, exempt from privilege statements made by a party in an action that is the subject of the review. This exception has been addressed in various appellate decisions. In their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas Moore and Matthew Gaier discuss several of the decisions.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

14 minute read

December 06, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Proper Venue for Malpractice Actions

A circumstance sometimes arises in medical malpractice actions where venue is decided based upon a physician's principal office. A recent decision by the Court of Appeals addressing that circumstance provides the opportunity for authors Thomas Moore and Matthew Gaier to examine the venue rules as they apply in malpractice actions.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

15 minute read

October 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Patients' Right to Their Own EMR Metadata

Medical records that used to be recorded primarily on paper, in the form of either handwritten or typed notations, are now entered on computers and stored electronically on computers or file servers. As Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier explore in this edition of their Medical Malpractice column, this new medical record medium has effected a sea change on medical malpractice litigation in several respects.

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

17 minute read

August 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Evidentiary Use of Learned Treatises

In a recent column in the New York Law Journal, Professor Michael Hutter raised the question of whether New York should adopt FRE 803(18), the Federal Rule of Evidence pertaining to the admissibility at trial of statements contained in treatises, periodical or pamphlets. Hutter's position was that adoption of the rule would be "a progressive step forward." In this edition of their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas Moore and Matthew Gaier explain why they "respectfully disagree."

By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier

15 minute read