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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.
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
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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.
Publication Date: 2023-07-24
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
Defendants moved for summary judgment in action over child's alleged birth-related injuries arguing plaintiffs failed to show causation and court found plaintiff's expert's opinion as to child's autism failed the Daubert test and plaintiffs failed to provide a causation expert to opine on whether defendants' conduct increased the risk or caused child's hypoxia, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, neurodevelopmental injuries of ADHD or other neurodevelopmental impairments. Motion granted.
Publication Date: 2023-07-03
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
Judge: Judge Nealon
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Case Number: 22 CV 3943
Defendant physicians moved to strike plaintiffs' objections to their subpoenas for the production of records in a medical professional liability action. The court granted the motion in part and denied it in part.
Publication Date: 2023-04-24
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Higgins
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Case Number: 1821 CV 2022
The court sustained in part and overruled in part preliminary objections filed by defendant physician in a medical malpractice suit.
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