By VerdictSearch | October 5, 2017
On Oct. 13, 2014, plaintiff Barbara Ladyansky, 53, was exiting a hospital in Philadelphia after an eye exam and dilation. A car which she had ordered to pick her up was waiting at the curb. When she went outside, she thought she was stepping onto the handicapped ramp but in fact had confused it with the curb, causing her to trip and fall, resulting in a fracture of her left ankle.
By Jason Grant | New York Law Journal | October 4, 2017
Administrations of an anesthetic were uneventful and successful in sedating the plaintiff and did not cause pain syndrome, the appeals panel ruled.
By Greg Land | October 4, 2017
A DeKalb County jury awarded $6 million in a medical malpractice case involving an elderly woman's death several days after surgery, but it cleared a co-defendant emergency room doctor of liability.
By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier | October 2, 2017
Medical Malpractice columnists Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier write: When someone is admitted to a hospital as the patient of a private attending physician, the hospital may still be subject to vicarious liability under the doctrine of ostensible agency for physicians who become involved in the patient's care during the admission. This question commonly arises with anesthesiologists and radiologists, although it may also apply where any physician is assigned by a hospital to provide a service or a consultation.
By Jon Lomurro and Abbott Brown | October 2, 2017
Two recent Appellate Division cases ('Ehrlich' and 'Granovsky'), have demonstrated that the doctrine of informed consent can be abused to confuse the issues. in medical malpractice cases.
By Zack Needles | September 29, 2017
Seeking to finally put to rest what he called a "perplexing and disquieting" trend of medical malpractice defendants attempting to bar vicarious liability claims where a plaintiff failed to name a specific agent, a Lackawanna County judge reiterated what he said the Pennsylvania Superior Court held more than three years ago: no such bar exists.
By Alexa Woronowicz | September 29, 2017
Medical expert could testify outside of his or her primary specialty where he or she had practical work experience in or where his or her primary specialty overlapped with the specialty at issue. Judgment affirmed.
By Michael Booth | September 27, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has reinstated a medical malpractice claim even though the plaintiff has not been able to secure an expert opinion from a physician who specializes in the same field as the defendant—despite some 100 attempts to do so.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | September 22, 2017
The family of a man who died after a vein implant designed to stop blood clots migrated to his heart and caused fatal cardiac arrest has won a $3.2 million verdict against a Montgomery County hospital.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Venue in this medical malpractice proceeding was proper in the county where some of the alleged negligent treatment occurred. Plaintiffs' complaint alleged sufficient details to support claims for corporate negligence and vicarious liability, but they did not allege sufficiently culpable conduct to support punitive damages claims as to all the defendants.
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