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Hall Booth Smith's Former Name Partners Sullivan and Slover Return to Their Roots

After forays into plaintiffs law, Terry Sullivan and Jack Slover have returned to their medical malpractice defense roots—Sullivan at Hall Booth Smith, which he launched almost three decades ago, and Slover at Downey & Cleveland.
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New York Law Journal

The End of NY's Unique Approach to Expert Witness Disclosure in Med Mal Cases

Since the amendment of Section 3101(d) in 1985, New York state has required that litigants in medical malpractice cases disclose the substance of the testimony they expect to produce through their expert witnesses at trial.
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Daily Business Review

Florida Women Who Sued Doctor Now Focusing on Implant Maker

The women who filed suit against the doctor said he enlarged their breasts even when they asked for reductions, that he used unsanitary practices and that he relied on ketamine instead of proper anesthesia.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Doctors Treating Man for Opioid Addiction Lack Immunity Under Mental Health Procedures Act, Court Says

A law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness should not have been applied to two emergency room doctors who treated a man while he was suffering from an opioid addiction, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
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Daily Report Online

Ga. Supreme Court OKs Late Med-Mal Claim That 'Related Back' to Original Lawsuit

The opinion, written by Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harris Hines, said the plaintiff's discovery that nursing staff may have violated hospital rules meant that a new claim could be added to the lawsuit, even though the statute of limitations had run.
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Supreme Court Brief

Inside the Court for Trump v. Hawaii | Feuding Footnotes: Alito v. Sotomayor | Justices Decline Legal Malpractice Dispute

Go inside the Supreme Court for the dramatic announcement of the Trump v. Hawaii ruling, and scroll down for our report on a legal malpractice case -- involving an arbitration clause -- that the justices have declined to hear. Thanks for reading SCB!
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New Jersey Law Journal

Driver Rear-Ended By Truck on Route 80 Settles for $1.375 Million

A former truck driver who was left disabled after a rear-end crash agreed  to a $1.375 million settlement in his Bergen County suit, Saleh-Crespo…
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Daily Report Online

Judge Strikes Defenses in Botched Circumcision Case

Clayton County State Court Judge Shalonda Jones-Parker wrote that a doctor and nurse at a Riverdale pediatric clinic had a duty to preserve tissue accidentally sliced from an infant's penis.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Attempt to Extinguish Workers' Comp Lien on High-Low Settlement Rejected

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a regulation exempting high-low agreements from a mandate on reporting medical malpractice settlements to state agencies doesn't protect the proceeds of such accords from a workers compensation lien.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Mortgage Loan Dispute Yields $1.168M Award in Bergen Bench Trial

In Danja Invest Corp. v. Zaytsev, a Bergen County judge rendered a $1.168 million judgment on May 17 in favor of a Belize-based company that sought…
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