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Connecticut Law Tribune

Wrongful-Death Case Against Adult Day Care Sparks Call for State Regulation

Currently, the only body that brings uniformity to adult day care centers is the Connecticut Association of Adult Day Care Centers, which is a private trade group. The organization helps "certify" members and nonmembers, but it is not required for adult day care centers that only take private payments.
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New York Law Journal

Confusion Over Jury's $20M Med Mal Verdict Causes Courthouse Stir

A Nassau County jury was dismissed and preparing to leave the courthouse when it learned an intended $20 million verdict might be entered as $6.5 million.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Anesthesiologist Wins Defense Verdict in Multimillion-Dollar Case Over C-Section Complications

Marshall Dennehey shareholder Gary Samms, who represented Society Hill Anesthesia, said the plaintiffs’ demand at trial had been $2 million. The defendant’s May pretrial memo shows that earlier in the case the plaintiffs had demanded $7 million.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

'All About Case Selection': Small But Mighty Miami Firm Reflects on Decades of Success

“We never wanted to grow just for the sake of growth,” said Steve Cain, founding partner of a Miami boutique firm celebrating 40 years of cases.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Orders New Trial in $45M Med Mal Case Against Temple Hospital

"The jury clearly either made a mistake in their calculations or were swayed by sympathy or some other improper basis for decision making, as the award simply does not align with the evidence presented,” Judge Glynnis Hill ruled.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$8M Med Mal Verdict Against Abington Hospital Fends Off Pa. Appeals Court Challenge

The verdict in Rongione v. Abington Memorial Hospital had been awarded to a married couple over complications that occurred while the wife was undergoing a caesarian section.
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New York Law Journal

CPLR Article 16 Apportionment And Dismissed Defendants Medical Malpractice

The authors write "Over the past two decades, this column has on three occasions addressed the issue of whether defendants may seek apportionment under CPLR Article 16 with respect to former defendants in the action who obtained merits based dismissals of the claims against them on summary judgment. It has been our steadfast position that such apportionment is prohibited by collateral estoppel and law of the case doctrine. It seems axiomatic that once a defendant has been adjudicated to be not liable as a matter of law, that finding is the law of the case, for all purposes. Nevertheless, efforts by defense counsel to defend their clients or limit their liability by blaming their former co-defendants continue to persist."
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Law.com

State Court Considers If Physician Can Be Held Liable for Lack of Tests, Treatment

"We said that was a continuing stream of treatment and, therefore, the statute of repose applied. But here, we don't have that. We don't have a continuous stream of treatment, we have a lack of treatment. We have plenty of visits in which the doctor doesn't perform the initial test, and I think that's the crux of the theory of negligence," Massachusetts Associate Justice Gabrielle R. Wolohojian said during oral arguments before the state high court.
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The Legal Intelligencer

The Defense Bar Is Feeling the Strain: Busy Med Mal Trial Schedules Might Be Phila.'s 'New Normal'

“We’re going to get busier with more cases filed,” Marshall Dennehey shareholder Gary Samms said. “So for the group of people that try a lot of the cases, there’s going to be no relief for us.”
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jefferson Doctor Hit With $6.8M Verdict Over Death of 64-Year-Old Cancer Patient

The plaintiffs alleged that during an operation to treat the decedent's liver cancer, one of the heated needle probes used in the procedure moved out of place and perforated her stomach.
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