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Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Todd
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Case Number: 22 EAP 2022
No felony conviction recovery rule barred mental health patient from seeking indemnification and damages arising from the patient's intentional murders. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-10-02
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Schulman
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Case Number: 190902017
In a medical malpractice case, the court imposed sanctions on both parties' counsel for discovery violations. Plaintiff filed motions to reconsider sanctions, which the court denied, finding that they willfully disregarded court orders. The court attached the reasons for its order pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a).
Publication Date: 2023-10-02
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
Judge: Judge Carpenter
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Case Number: 220901774
Medical malpractice plaintiff appealed the court's order sustaining defendants' preliminary objections to improper venue and transferring the action to the county in which the alleged malpractice occurred. The court requested that its order be affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-10-02
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 1123 MDA 2022
Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act's whistleblower protections did not preclude a hospital from taking steps to determine the identify of the author of an anonymous report made under the patient safety plan, where hospitals were not "appropriate authorities" bound to protect whistleblower identities under the act. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-09-25
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Sullivan
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Case Number: 162 EDA 2022
Hospital could not invoke confidentiality under the Medical Care and Reduction of Error Act for documents produced during root cause analysis into potential surgical error where there was no evidence that hospital's sentinel event policy qualified as a MCARE safety plan. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Federal Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Chagares
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Case Number: 22-1940
District court erred in granting summary judgment to government based on the lack of an expert report in appellant prisoner's pro se medical negligence action because the Federal Tort Claims Act did not incorporate Pa.R.Civ.P. 1042.3 and appellant did not otherwise have an adequate opportunity to seek an expert or conduct discovery due to his unique position as a pro se inmate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2023-08-21
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Dauphin County
Judge: Judge McNally
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Case Number: 2020 CV 10091 MM
Plaintiffs appealed a court order, in which her complaint was dismissed through the grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment. The court concluded that plaintiff's medical negligence claims were time-barred by the two-year statute of limitations.
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Brobson
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Case Number: 7 WAP 2022
Lower courts found hospital could seek indemnity and contributions from clinic as the doctors' actual employer but court found if hospital and clinic were determined to be vicariously liable for the negligence of the doctors via principles of ostensible agency under the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act and respondeat superior, hospital could obtain contribution but not indemnity from clinic because law did not permit a party that was vicariously liable in tort to obtain indemnity from another party that was vicario
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 30009 OF 2019, C.A.
Medical malpractice plaintiff appealed the court's grant of summary judgment in favor of decedent's personal care physician who was not involved in decedent's surgery and post-surgical care at a hospital. The court declared that plaintiff's appeal should be denied in its entirety.
Publication Date: 2023-07-31
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Gallagher
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Case Number: 5:20-cv-00630-JMG
Plaintiffs moved for reconsideration of court's order precluding plaintiffs' expert's opinion on the cause of plaintiffs' child's autism under Daubert and court found it analyzed the reliability of expert's methodology and found it unreliable, plaintiffs failed to show a clear error of law and court also denied plaintiffs' motion for certification of an interlocutory appeal. Motion denied.
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