By Michael Booth | April 9, 2018
The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether a medical malpractice plaintiff who took the rare step of seeking counsel fees under the offer-of-judgment rule, even after entering a high-low agreement that was silent on the issue, may recover such fees.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Andrew Ralston | April 6, 2018
The Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act, 40 Pa. C.S. Section 1303.101, et. seq., contains provisions which create an institutional “patient safety” process, and provides protections—contained in Section 1303.311— that afford to health care institutions the ability to report and investigate “serious events or incidents,” and develop and implement solutions to systemic patient safety problems that may lead to future “serious events or incidents” discovered thereby, free from concern about exposure during litigation discovery.
By Jason Grant | April 5, 2018
“A trial court has broad authority to control the courtroom," the panel wrote.
By Greg Land | April 4, 2018
The jurors cleared WellStar Douglas Hospital and a radiologist of negligence in the death of a woman whose breast cancer went undetected but set up a new trial for a medical malpractice claim against the hospital.
By Greg Land | April 2, 2018
A federal jury in Arizona's verdict included $2 million in punitive damages against the makers of an implanted blood filter that broke apart and left fragments in a woman's heart and lodged in her artery. More than 3,000 suits have been filed against C.R. Bard over the devices.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier | April 2, 2018
Medical Malpractice columnists Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier write: A controversy has developed in recent years concerning the form of verdict sheets with regard to damages in wrongful death actions. Specifically, a question has arisen with respect to whether the verdict sheet should have specific interrogatories inquiring as to the wrongful death damages to be awarded to each of the decedent's distributees.
By Katheryn Tucker | March 26, 2018
The title is “Tommy Malone, Trial Lawyer: And the Light Shone Through … The Guiding Hand Shaping One of America's Greatest Trial Lawyers.” The author is Vincent Coppola, a former Newsweek reporter who has written five nonfiction books.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | March 22, 2018
The parents of a baby girl whose scalp was disfigured after a doctor wrapped an ACE bandage around her head to treat swelling following her premature birth has been awarded $47 million by a federal jury.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Lizzy McLellan | March 20, 2018
Jamie Ray-Leonetti allegedly fabricated a $50,000 settlement and failed to tell her clients their case was dismissed for failure to file a complaint.
By Michael Booth | March 19, 2018
The three-judge Appellate Division panel reinstated the lawsuit, which alleged that 42-year-old Michelle Skounakis died 15 days after she was prescribed Cytomel, a thyroid hormone that can be used as a weight-loss medication.
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