The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | February 6, 2020
Justice David Wecht did not agree with the court's decision denying reconsideration and issued a strongly worded statement dissenting to the court's order.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | February 6, 2020
A Philadelphia judge has allowed a medical malpractice lawsuit to proceed against New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, finding that jurisdiction is proper in part because the claims revolve around allegedly false MRI results the hospital provided to the now-deceased plaintiff after he had returned home to Pennsylvania.
By David Gialanella | Charles Toutant | February 4, 2020
A $1.08 million settlement in a suit claiming an obstetrician failed to order additional fetal testing that would have detected a genetic disorder,…
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | February 3, 2020
"The effects of the proposed rule change on the number of medical malpractice filings and/or the value of medical malpractice payments in Pennsylvania could not be determined with any certainty."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier | February 3, 2020
The theory behind the common law "emergency doctrine" is that a person in such a situation cannot reasonably be held to the same accuracy of judgment or conduct as someone who has an opportunity to reflect, even if the decision turns out to be wrong. The need for the emergency doctrine has been called into question in recent years based on principles of comparative negligence and the ability of juries to apportion fault. As Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier discuss in this edition of their Medical Malpractice column, while some states have abolished the doctrine altogether, New York has not gone so far.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | January 28, 2020
A Superior Court jury returned a seven-figure verdict in favor of a man who sued Bristol Hospital for medical malpractice, alleging a nurse injured him while administering an enema.
By Charles Toutant | January 24, 2020
A judge found accepting that fee was improper because New Jersey ethics rules only allow payment of referral fees by a certified trial attorney.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | January 23, 2020
A Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas judge has denied a health company's attempt to escape a wrongful death lawsuit against one of its hospitals, finding "extensive evidence" to refute its argument that it did not have control over the hospital.
By Catherine Wilson | January 22, 2020
The medical malpractice litigator is the new managing partner of the law firm's nine-attorney Miami office.
By Raychel Lean | January 17, 2020
Kelley Uustal partner Todd Falzone and his team argued that a radiologist took no more than half a second looking at 691 different images of a CT scan of a patient who later died of bleeding in the brain.
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