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  • DiMeo v. Gross

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Jacquinto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 191003447

    Appellants challenged the court's order denying their post-trial motion and entering judgment in favor of appellee. The court concluded the appeal should be denied and its judgment affirmed where, among other things, there was no error in the court's rejection of appellants' request that trial be delayed by one day to accommodate an appellant's observation of Yom Kippur.

  • Nigon v. Jewell

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 671 WDA 2023

    Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to primary care physician and his general partner in medical negligence case and court found estate's experts opined primary care physician deviated from the standard of care in treating patient initially in 2017, before the 2019 surgery that led to his death, and trial court erred by concluding that partnerships involving physicians had to be categorically excluded from application of partnership law. Reversed.

  • Smaczylo v. Cohan

    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Zulick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 5882 CV 2023

    Defendants filed preliminary objections to plaintiffs' complaint, contending plaintiffs engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Objection granted.

  • Healey v. Scranton Hosp. Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23 CV 1793

    Defendants filed motions to compel supplemental responses to defendants' requests for production of documents and an authorization for release of social security administration records in a medical malpractice suit alleging the improper administration of opioid medication in defendants' emergency room. Motions granted in part and denied in part.

  • Mazzuca v. Abreu

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 1264 EDA 2023

    Trial court erred in determining there were no contested issues of fact regarding venue and remand was required for evidence as to whether venue was proper in Philadelphia based on appellant's claim that she served appellee Abreu at her "office or usual place of business" pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 402(a)(2)(iii). Vacated and remanded.

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  • Redos v. UPMC Susquehanna

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Carlucci
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-00528

    Defendant medical providers sought summary judgment on plaintiff's claim alleging professional liability regarding treatment of a patient who was suffering a mental illness. The court denied defendants' motion where plaintiff's expert opined that defendants acted in gross deviation from the standard of care for a patient suffering from a delirium, with the result that defendants could be ineligible for the limited immunity afforded under the Mental Health Procedures Act.

  • N.T. v. The Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2024-02-16
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Colins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 3015 EDA 2022

    Trial court correctly dismissed medical malpractice action on grounds of judicial estoppel where theory of liability in present case was incompatible and unreconciled with plaintiff's theory of liability in parallel action. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Wilson v. Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hosp., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Schulman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 190902017

    Plaintiffs appealed the court's order reinstating sanctions previously imposed on counsel for both parties for failure to complete discovery and exchange expert reports pursuant to the court's medical malpractice case management order. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed.

  • Corey v. Wilkes-Barre Hosp. Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 507 MDA 2021

    Court correctly nonsuited corporate negligence claim against hospital where plaintiff's trial evidence focused on the actions and omissions of individual staff and provided no proof of systemic negligence by hospital management. Judgment affirmed.

  • Healey v. Scranton Hosp. Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23 CV 1793

    Medical malpractice defendants filed preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint. The court sustained the preliminary objections in part and overruled them in part.