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  • Emery v. Christiana Care Health Servs., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Onofrio de Gennaro, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Phillip M. Casale, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE For defendant.
    Case Number: D69843

    Continuous medical treatment doctrine applied to render plaintiffs' claims timely where plaintiffs sufficiently alleged that the course of treatment stretched from an initial act of negligence to the patient's death.

  • Donofrio v. Peninsula Healthcare Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-04-26
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Schwartz, Schwartz and Schwartz, Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Maria R. Granaudo Gesty, Burns White LLC, Wilmington DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69796

    Long-term care facility admission agreement had valid arbitration clause where patient possessed contractual capacity to execute the agreement.

  • McCreary v. United States

    Publication Date: 2022-04-05
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keyona McCreary, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, Shamoor Anis, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69772

    Filing deadlines for Federal Tort Claims Act claim were equitably tolled where plaintiff's counsel had failed to move for reconsideration of the denial of plaintiff's administrative tort claim or to inform plaintiff of the deadline for moving for reconsideration.

  • Richardson v. Christiana Care Health Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-07
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joshua H. Meyeroff, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69460

    The court granted some of plaintiff's motions in limine in this medical negligence case, but denied other motions to exclude testimony.

  • Palmer v. Christiana Care Health Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-10
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Richard Galperin, Joshua Meyeroff, Ryan T. Keating, Phillip M. Casale, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dawn C. Doherty, Michael F. Duggan, Joseph E. Brenner, Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69323

    Plaintiff in this medical malpractice case was not entitled to peer review documents regarding the outcome of a specific medical procedure, but the court permitted limited discovery involving a defendant facility's credentialing of a doctor.

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  • GI Assoc. of Delaware, P.A. v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2021-03-03
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Natalie Wolf, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Bradley J. Goewert, Lorenza A. Wolhar, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69313

    The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the continuous negligent medical treatment doctrine in this case, and remanded for factual findings involving the statute of limitations.

  • Neylon v. Zabel

    Publication Date: 2020-11-18
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Jurden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Hall, Phillips Goldman McLaughlin & Hall P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Gregory S. McKee, Katherine J. Sullivan, Wharton Levin Ehrmantrout & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE for de-fendants.
    Case Number: D69194

    Plaintiff's settlement agreement in a separate personal injury proceeding against another entity did not preclude her malpractice claims against defendants.

  • Bradford v. Beebe Med. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Michael Bradford, Washington, DC, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: Bradley J. Goewert and Catherine M. Cramer, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendant Beebe Medical Center. John D. Balaguer and Roopa Sabesan, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants Haldar and Cathcart.
    Case Number: D69023

    Defendant hospital dismissed from medical malpractice action where complaint was filed outside statute of limitations and plaintiff's notice of investigation to extend limitations window failed to identify hospital as a potential defendant.

  • Anderson v. GI Assocs. of Delaware, P.A.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-13
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Bradley J. Goewert and Lorenza A. Wolhar, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68975

    Act of negligent treatment and resulting injury occurring on two separate dates meant that medical malpractice case involved continuum of treatment, requiring that the statute of limitations be measured from the last act in the continuum of treatment.

  • Delaware Bd. of Med. Licensure & Discipline v. Grossinger

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia A. Davis and Zoe Plerhoples, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul A. Logan, Post & Schell, P.C. Wilmington, DE; James J. Kutz, Harrisburg, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: D68848

    Reversal of disciplinary charges against physician overturned where state board not required to obtain expert testimony to establish standard of care under regulations, and where regulations were not vague as-applied since physician failed to make any effort at compliance.