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Med-Mal Attorney Bonnie Navin Shows She's No One-Trick Pony

The work ethic a Kelley/Uustal attorney learned from her early days on a horse farm put her on a path to success.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Punitive Claims Over Inadequate Medical Treatment Survive

When a pregnant woman appeared at her obstetrician's office complaining of headache, backache, hypertension and possible decreased fetal movement a few weeks before her baby was due, she was told to return home, apply Bengay cream to her sore back and “eat bland food” the rest of the day. Those instructions, and the allegations that the on-call obstetrician failed to order follow-up testing, are substantial enough to allow the mother to bring punitive damages claims against the doctor and the OBGYN practice, a judge has ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Savannah Jury Returns $4.48M Medical Malpractice Verdict

A jury in Savannah has awarded $4.475 million to a widow whose husband died in a Reidsville hospital the night after spinal fusion surgery.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Treating Doctor Can't Testify on Standard of Care, Court Says

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a doctor who corrected a colleague's alleged surgical errors should not have been permitted to testify on the standard of care in the resulting medical malpractice case.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

IUD Users' Lawyer Says Bayer Admissions Should Revive Products Suit

An attorney for more than 1,200 women who say they were injured by the Mirena intrauterine device argued before a federal appeals court on Monday that their dismissed suit should be revived based on Bayer's own admissions that its device can perforate the uterus.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Crespo v. Hughes, PICS Case No. 17-1227 (Pa. Super. July 18, 2017) Ransom, J. (35 pages).

Trial court erred in precluding plaintiff's conviction for receipt of stolen property, where crimen falsi evidence was per se admissible, and where evidence of the conviction was relevant to plaintiff's wage loss claim. Judgment reversed in part and affirmed in part, case remanded for new trial on damages.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Damages Trial Ordered in Nursing Home Liability Row

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered a new trial on compensatory damages against a nursing home management services provider, as well as on punitive damages against that company and its nursing home client in a long-running suit over a resident's death.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Ehrlich v. Sorokin

Evidence of Informed Consent Erroneously Admitted Where Plaintiff Did Not Raise Lack of Informed Consent Claim
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of B.L. v. Lawsky

DFS's Decision Found Arbitrary, Affected By Error; Ordered to Enroll Infant in MIF
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$4.25 Million Settlement in Child Med Mal Case in Essex

A settlement in which medical professionals agreed to pay a combined $4.25 million to settle a suit over complications from a toddler's tonsillectomy was approved by an Essex County judge on June 26 in Charles v. Thomas.
10 minute read

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