By Jason Grant | March 28, 2019
A state appeals court decided on Thursday that a medical-malpractice claim lodged against surgeon Dr. Elliot Goodman had been properly dismissed because “under the particular circumstances in this case, defendant, as the patient's surgeon, did not owe patient a duty to manage his medication in the ICU.”
By Jonathan Ringel | March 28, 2019
The case involves a doctor who sued his insurers for disability benefits before a patient sued him for medical malpractice.
By Jonathan Ringel | March 28, 2019
The case involves a doctor who sued his insurers for disability benefits before a patient sued him for medical malpractice.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John L.A. Lyddane | March 27, 2019
In his Medical Malpractice Defense column, John L.A. Lyddane writes: In a case brought to trial 10 or more years after the alleged acts of negligence, it is especially important that the claims to be tried have been identified, investigated, and subject to complete discovery. It is the responsibility of defense counsel to see that claims as to which there has been insufficient notice and an inadequate opportunity to defend are not advanced at trial.
By Jason Grant | March 19, 2019
The plaintiff, an engineer, suffered the tear to his urethral wall during a routine cystoscopy exam performed by a defendant urologist, after he'd gone to the doctor complaining of blood in his urine. He had one surgery aimed at correcting recurring problems and plans another.
By Katheryn Tucker | March 11, 2019
Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Sara Doyle said Fulton County State Court Judge Fred Eady did not make any errors in the trial, even though he thought he did.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | March 7, 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to decide whether a law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness should have been applied to a drug addiction treatment facility and its two physicians who treated a man while he was suffering from an opioid addiction.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Lindsay Forlines | March 1, 2019
"In the worst case, a corporate representative can even be lulled through clever hypotheticals into making an “admission” that a policy was breached—or worse, that a deviation of the standard of care occurred. "
By Meredith Hobbs | February 28, 2019
Atlanta's Hall Booth Smith has opened two New Jersey offices in its first move outside the Southeast.
By Meredith Hobbs | February 28, 2019
Recently retired Passaic County Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin has joined Hall Booth Smith as a partner to launch a second New Jersey office for the Atlanta-based law firm.
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