By Jason Grant | August 2, 2019
Pointing to a lack of certainty in the surgeon's own deposition testimony, the First Department panel ruled that the surgeon failed to meet his prima facie burden at the dismissal motion stage “of establishing that he did not depart from accepted medical practice in his method of injecting fat into plaintiff’s face.”
By Jason Grant | July 29, 2019
The woman died nearly a year and a half after the transplant surgery, due to a series of complications—including losing her new kidney and being forced back onto dialysis—that her lawyers argued sprang from a urine leak going undiagnosed. The jury found causation for her injuries but not for her death.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Bruce H. Nagel | July 26, 2019
Trial attorneys must be aware of the often overlapping claims of informed consent and breach of standards of care in order to make strategic decisions regarding which issues will be tried.
By Jim Saunders | July 25, 2019
The justices will take up an appeal in a case involving the 2013 death of Suyima Torres, who was taken to Doctors Hospital after she became unconscious following a cosmetic procedure at a clinic.
By Greg Land | July 19, 2019
A pair of Atlanta lawyers represented the prison inmate who hurt his hand playing Frisbee and had to wait nearly eight months for surgery.
By Suzette Parmley | David Gialanella | July 19, 2019
A $4.2 million settlement was reached on July 3 in Niedzwiadek v. Anmuth, the Atlantic County case of a Southampton woman who died following routine…
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John L.A. Lyddane | July 15, 2019
In his Medical Malpractice Defense column, John L.A. Lyddane writes: By definition in New York, liability for medical malpractice long depended on the existence of a doctor-patient relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant. Over time there have developed narrow exceptions to the general rule. Liability for medical malpractice has been extended to non-patients, and it is useful to examine how this has come about.
By David Gialanella | July 12, 2019
A man whose left leg was amputated after he was struck by a commercial vehicle agreed to a $4.35 million settlement in his Ocean County suit, Bland…
By Angela Morris | July 12, 2019
Smith Clinesmith associate Paul J. Downey of Dallas, who represented plaintiff Dorcus Simmons in the case, said his firm was weighing options to appeal the ruling.
By Angela Morris | July 12, 2019
Smith Clinesmith associate Paul J. Downey of Dallas, who represented plaintiff Dorcus Simmons in the case, said his firm was weighing options to appeal the ruling.
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