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Not 'Much Else We Could Do': Payout From $40M Bibb County Verdict Uncertain as Judge Mulls Apportionment

If that judgment doesn't fall in the plaintiff's favor, it will create a possible avenue for them to appeal.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'You Could See the Bone': Ga. Patient Sues Hospital Over Severe Arm Burn From MRI

"His arm was too close to the inside of the bore wall, and the machine was not set to the appropriate power to prevent him from burning in that position," plaintiff attorney Alex Weatherby said.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Jury Awards $4.7M Verdict After Doctors Allegedly Fail to Diagnose 35-Year-Old's Heart Condition

"This was a hard-fought case on the medicine. We feel that the verdict reflects that the jury was more critical of [the defendants,] as this was the second visit to a doctor's office in a week's time with chest pain complaints without coronary artery disease having been ruled out by further cardiac testing," said Daniel Jeck of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hospital Won't Face Convicted Murderer's Psychiatric Malpractice Claims, Pa. Supreme Court Rules

"Allowing the recovery of damages from a mental healthcare provider for a patient's criminal conduct could undermine trust between the patient and psychiatrist," Justice Debra Todd said.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

How the Barnes Law Group Secured a $10M Med Mal Verdict in Fulton County

According to plaintiff's counsel Mark Meliski, the defense's strategy posed one of the greatest challenges throughout the litigation process—especially once their codefendant admitted negligence a couple of weeks before trial.
5 minute read

Law.com

Colorado Appeals Court Upholds Lifting Damages Cap to Allow Nearly $40 Million Verdict

"C.G.'s parents are thankful that the Court of Appeals upheld both the attentive Weld County jury's verdict and the district court's rulings in a detailed, timely, and well-reasoned fashion," the plaintiffs' counsel, Zachary Wool of Barrios Kingsdorf & Casteix in New Orleans, in a statement via email to Law.com.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Professional Reliability Exception to the Hearsay Rule (Part Two of Two)

The first half of this series, addressing the historical development of the law in New York on the professional reliability exception to the rule against hearsay, was published on Sept. 18, 2023. This second segment discusses how the professional reliability exception has been applied to the process of medical malpractice adjudication.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Divided High Court Ruling Preserves Med-Mal Status Quo—but for How Long?

"We recognize that the comments made by Justice Pinson in his concurrence leave open the possibility of future litigation related to this issue," said appellee counsel Page Powell Jr. of Huff Powell & Bailey.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

DeKalb Jury Returns $38.6M Verdict Against Emory After Teen's Death

"The crux of the case was the failure to obtain a chest CT [scan] after the placement of the mechanical heart pump and before the heart transplant over a year later," said plaintiff counsel Lee Gutschenritter of Finch McCranie in Atlanta.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Mother Permanently Injured in Epidural Injury Settles For $13.5 Million in Middlesex

A woman who was left partially paralyzed after childbirth agreed to a $13.5 million settlement in her Middlesex County suit, Mejia v. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
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