By Michael Booth | July 25, 2018
The court said the Patient Safety Act was enacted to ensure that a hospital, after an adverse event, would undertake a thorough self-critical analysis in order to help prevent such incidents.
By Michael Booth | David Gialanella | Charles Toutant | July 23, 2018
In Wilburn v. Moss, a Neptune man has received $2.2 million as compensation for undergoing amputation of both legs after he developed an infection…
By Katheryn Tucker | July 19, 2018
A longtime medical malpractice defense attorney and a former gang prosecutor won the case for two doctors sued after a newborn baby died.
By Michael Booth | July 19, 2018
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that parties who enter into a high-low agreement may not later seek additional counsel fees and litigation costs unless provided for in the agreement.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Cliff Rieders | July 19, 2018
Preventable medical errors are routinely covered up by health care professionals who do not always put the truth in the medical records or address poor medical care in the context of peer review. In Pennsylvania, as in most states, peer review cannot be disclosed even in litigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | July 18, 2018
Plaintiffs have two years from the death of their loved ones to bring survival actions alleging medical professional negligence, even if the injuries caused by the alleged negligence didn't lead to death, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
By Meredith Hobbs | July 16, 2018
After forays into plaintiffs law, Terry Sullivan and Jack Slover have returned to their medical malpractice defense roots—Sullivan at Hall Booth Smith, which he launched almost three decades ago, and Slover at Downey & Cleveland.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John L.A. Lyddane | July 16, 2018
Since the amendment of Section 3101(d) in 1985, New York state has required that litigants in medical malpractice cases disclose the substance of the testimony they expect to produce through their expert witnesses at trial.
By Associated Press | July 16, 2018
The women who filed suit against the doctor said he enlarged their breasts even when they asked for reductions, that he used unsanitary practices and that he relied on ketamine instead of proper anesthesia.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | July 11, 2018
A law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness should not have been applied to two emergency room doctors who treated a man while he was suffering from an opioid addiction, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
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