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New York Law Journal

Prior Inconsistent Statements and Medical Malpractice Defense

Here we examine some of the concerns for the defense of medical malpractice cases when an issue arises as to the use of a prior inconsistent statement at trial.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Major Plaintiff Victories: Women's Health Care Gets Expensive in Court

“This is one of those cases that when it first comes in the door, you know it's going to go to trial,” attorney Sean K. McElligott said. “It's going to be a challenge, and those types of cases tend to go the distance."
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fla.'s Statute of Limitations and Statutes of Repose in Med Mal Cases: It's Not Over Until It's Over

The second part of that provision comes into play when grounds for malpractice may not be immediately apparent to the patient. One example of this would be a patient who undergoes surgery and foreign object is left behind, but the patient does not learn of the retained object until a year after surgery.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'Point Us to the Plain Language': NJ Supreme Court Grills Defense Statutory Requirements for Affidavit of Merit

The arguments involved a case where the trial court and Appellate Division came to opposite conclusions on whether plaintiffs must serve an affidavit of merit in multiple specialties for a suit against a doctor with more than one specialty.
5 minute read

Law.com

State Appellate Court Denies Hospital's Request to Move Med Mal Suit From Chicago

The court denied the defendants' attempts to move the medical malpractice suit from Cook County to Will County.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Med Mal Claim for Injury Stemming From Epidural Nets $2.75 Million Settlement

The defendants all denied that there was a deviation from the standard of care.
3 minute read

Law.com

Radiology Service Provider May Be Held Liable for 'Unavailable' On-Call Physician, State Appellate Court Rules

"We have no difficulty concluding that a hospital with an emergency department owes a duty of reasonable care to patients admitted on an emergency basis," Massachusetts Court of Appeals Judge Gregory I. Massing said.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Law Firm Faces Malpractice Suit After Doctor Hit With $6M Judgment

"Had Frisoli been properly informed about the offer of judgment and the risks attendant with rejecting the offer of judgment, Frisoli would have accepted the Tapias' offer to settle the claim," the suit claims.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Amid Criticism of Quality of Care at Hospital, Childbirth Trauma Suit Yields $11.9M

"If this had been acted on in the first two to three to four minutes, it would have been unfortunate but not tragic," plaintiff's attorney Samuel Davis said.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Outdo Themselves, Getting $50M After Court Vacates $10M Award

"They offered one one-hundredth of the verdict," said prevailing plaintiff counsel Daniel J. Moriarty of Moriarty Injury Law. "That's important because everyone talks about verdicts in Georgia, but what people need to talk about is the fact that these verdicts happen because these insurance companies don't protect their insureds, and they lowball plaintiffs even in strong cases."
7 minute read

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