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.
By Greg Land | July 2, 2018
The opinion, written by Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harris Hines, said the plaintiff's discovery that nursing staff may have violated hospital rules meant that a new claim could be added to the lawsuit, even though the statute of limitations had run.
By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle | June 27, 2018
Go inside the Supreme Court for the dramatic announcement of the Trump v. Hawaii ruling, and scroll down for our report on a legal malpractice case -- involving an arbitration clause -- that the justices have declined to hear. Thanks for reading SCB!
By Charles Toutant | David Gialanella | June 25, 2018
A former truck driver who was left disabled after a rear-end crash agreed to a $1.375 million settlement in his Bergen County suit, Saleh-Crespo…
By Greg Land | June 22, 2018
Clayton County State Court Judge Shalonda Jones-Parker wrote that a doctor and nurse at a Riverdale pediatric clinic had a duty to preserve tissue accidentally sliced from an infant's penis.
By Charles Toutant | June 20, 2018
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a regulation exempting high-low agreements from a mandate on reporting medical malpractice settlements to state agencies doesn't protect the proceeds of such accords from a workers compensation lien.
By Michael Booth | June 4, 2018
In Danja Invest Corp. v. Zaytsev, a Bergen County judge rendered a $1.168 million judgment on May 17 in favor of a Belize-based company that sought…
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