Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | June 1, 2018
Plaintiff Stephen Astran reached a $940,000 settlement with a Naugatuck-based chiropractor who allegedly did not send him to get an immediate MRI when he showed symptoms for a possible spinal cord infection. He needed spinal cord surgery as a result, according to his lawsuit.
By Greg Land | May 31, 2018
The widow of Pete Hamilton, who won the Daytona 500 and Talladega 500 in 1970, was awarded $1.9 million for medical malpractice and loss of consortium claims stemming from a botched shoulder surgery her husband underwent in 2014.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | May 15, 2018
The lawsuit includes claims for personal injury, financial loss and loss of consortium.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael C. Zogby and Daryl Daly | May 14, 2018
Courts in many jurisdictions have found that detail representatives owe no legal duty to patients or physicians under failure-to-warn principles or medical malpractice negligence theories.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John L.A. Lyddane | May 14, 2018
Medical Malpractice Defense columnist John L.A. Lyddane writes: Section 1:75 of the Pattern Jury Instructions suggests by its very existence that the jury's attention should be drawn to what we commonly refer to as the “missing witness.” The very title of that section, which includes “Failure to Produce Witness,” has a pejorative tone. Why should the decision of counsel not to call a particular witness be termed a “failure” to do so when the determination of whose testimony is required is such a complex and subjective judgment?
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Edward Grossi | May 14, 2018
The enforceability of arbitration agreements between nursing homes and their residents is a fact-driven inquiry and implicates important policy considerations related to public safety that are not found in the typical dispute over an arbitration provision.
By Charles Toutant | David Gialanella | Michael Booth | May 7, 2018
A Union County jury awarded $4.5 million on April 6 in a medical malpractice suit, Ayala v. Friedlander, M.D., over errors in a man's spinal surgery.But…
By Charles Toutant | Michael Booth | April 30, 2018
The plaintiff's recovery in the case is limited to $18.3 million because the jury apportioned fault to a defendant who had previously settled.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Michael Marciano | April 27, 2018
Thomas D. Colin has rejoined the Greenwich law firm he co-founded after retiring as a Superior Court judge.
Connecticut Law Tribune | Best Practices|Commentary
By Shaun Patrick Willis | April 26, 2018
It is imperative that we not only understand the elements necessary to prosecute or defend a claim of medical malpractice, but that we are also able to identify and apply the specific facts of a case to those elements, proving that each one exists.
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