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DeKalb Jury Awards $3M in Mother's Post-Delivery Death

A DeKalb County jury awarded more than $3 million to the parents of a woman who died three days after giving birth, finding two DeKalb Medical Center nurses liable for the 2009 death of Shari Edwards but clearing a doctor named as a co-defendant of liability.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Hospital Report Privileged Even If Errors Withheld From Regulators

The ruling from the Appellate Division overturned the trial court's decision that directed the report to be turned over to the patient, and found that the incident should have been reported to the state.
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Jury Sides With Doctors, Neonatology Group in Boys Death

The parents of a 3-year-old boy said doctors were "negligent" in the treatment of their son, who was born with a rare respiratory condition.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

In 'Pullman', Court Once Again Addresses MedMal Summary Judgment Standards

In their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier analyze the Court of Appeals' holding in 'Pullman v. Silverman', which emphatically confirmed the necessity for an expert affidavit to adequately refute the specific allegations in the bills of particulars to be sufficient to establish a moving defendant's entitlement to summary judgment.
20 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court Favors Patients in Hospital Records Dispute

The court rejects federal preemption as a way to avoid disclosure of adverse medical incidents under the state patients' right to know constitutional amendment, writes attorney Linda A. Alley.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Jury Awards $2.4M in Broward Medical Malpractice Case

A jury found a Broward doctor liable for $2.4 million in damages for failing to properly treat a patient with an autoimmune disorder.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Family: CAT Scan Misinterpretation Proved to Be Fatal

By | February 02, 2017
On Feb. 4, 2010, the plaintiff's decedent Gretchen Altemus, 68, suffered a fall and struck her head.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Doctor, Hospital Hit With $14.5M Verdict Over Birth Injury

A western Pennsylvania jury has awarded nearly $14.5 million to a family over an allegedly mishandled delivery that led an infant to develop severe cerebral palsy.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Downing v. Westchester County Healthcare Corp.

By | February 02, 2017
Petitioner Granted Leave to File Late Notice Of Claim in Medical Malpractice Action
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Justices Rule Medical Documents Must Be Disclosed

In a ruling that could have implications for medical malpractice cases across the state, the Florida Supreme Court said a Jacksonville hospital system was required to provide records to a patient's family because of a 2004 constitutional amendment.
8 minute read

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