By Greg Land | August 14, 2019
Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte was accused of claiming medical qualifications she did not hold, according to the consent judgment.
By Charles Toutant | David Gialanella | Suzette Parmley | August 9, 2019
A woman who slipped on ice while disembarking from a US Airways flight at Newark Liberty International Airport agreed to a $3.1 million settlement…
By Greg Land | August 8, 2019
Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney founding partner Fred Gleaton said the emotional case involving the death of a newborn was his last trial.
By VerdictSearch | August 8, 2019
On April 19, 2015, plaintiff's decedent Elaine Korabik, 56, a laborer, died from complications following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, or a gallbladder removal.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier | August 5, 2019
Without question, the most effective deterrence to the destruction or alteration of medical records in an effort to evade liability for medical malpractice liability is the potential for a punitive damages award to be imposed against the offending party. In their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier discuss a decision in which the Second Department upheld such an award for that precise misconduct.
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.
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