• G.K. v. LaBella

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 367 WDA 2023

    Petition to strike a discontinuance of an action constituted a new matter that divested the appellate court of jurisdiction due to the pendency of the action before the trial court. Appeal quashed.

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

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 44 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant healthcare providers. The court reversed and remanded for further proceedings, holding that when the record was viewed in appellant's favor as the non-movant, genuine issues of material fact existed as to whether appellees committed gross negligence in evaluating and releasing appellant's deceased brother, who killed himself shortly after expressing suicidal thoughts and seeking mental health treatment.

  • Jordan v. Lynde

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-02616

    Medical malpractice plaintiffs appealed the court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant medical providers. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiffs proffered no expert testimony to demonstrate defendants' deviation from acceptable medical standards, and where plaintiffs failed to demonstrate how the discovery rule tolled the statute of limitations on their otherwise untimely complaint.

  • Estate of Perez v. Bryn Mawr Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-31
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Montgomery County
    Judge: Judge Saltz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2020-02127

    Plaintiffs appealed the court's entry of summary judgment dismissing their claim for declaratory relief in their wrongful death and survival action alleging medical malpractice against certain medical providers after the death of their son. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiffs' settlement of their tort claim for corporate negligence based on a hospital's allegedly improper delegation of the duty of oversight meant they no longer had standing to seek a judicial declaration that the underlying professio

  • Redos v. UPMC Susquehanna

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    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 moved to preclude plaintiff from offering expert testimony in support of her claim of corporate negligence in the treatment of a patient with mental health issues who leapt from the roof of defendant hospital. The court denied defendants' motion without prejudice to their seeking a directed verdict on the issue at trial.

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  • Webb v. Scranton Quincy Hosp. Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021 CV 4073

    The trial court granted a motion in limine filed by plaintiffs in anticipation of opening statements in a medical malpractice case that sought leave of court to use admissible excerpts of videotaped depositions of defense witnesses they did not identify.

  • Webb v. Scranton Quincy Hosp. Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021 CV 4073

    The trial court granted a motion in limine filed by plaintiffs in anticipation of opening statements in a medical malpractice case that sought leave of court to use admissible excerpts of videotaped depositions of defense witnesses they did not identify.

  • 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.