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Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigation Departments Of The Year 2014

By | April 28, 2014
The Connecticut Law Tribune's annual Litigation Departments of the Year competition was truly a case study. We had well over 30 law firms submit nearly 60 applications, with some firms opting to compete in more than one category. We picked 15 winners.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

PI, Med-Mal Lawyers Face Change in Medical Records Rule

Starting this fall, personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys no longer will have to file boxes and boxes of their clients' confidential medical records with courts when they need to use the records as evidence in a trial.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hospital, Nursing Facilities on the Hook for Pressure Ulcer Claims

A lawsuit against a hospital and nursing facilities can proceed despite a medical expert not being able to say that the defendants breached the standard of care by allegedly ignoring the malnourishment and subsequent weight loss of a man suffering from skin ulcers.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

E.R. Doctor Had No Duty To Report To DYFS That Child Drank Cologne

In a ruling eagerly awaited by the medical community, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that an emergency room physician was not negligent for failing to contact child welfare authorities after treating a 2-year-old girl who had ingested cologne.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

L.A. v. New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services

By | April 23, 2014
Doctor Didn't Breach Duty to Report Child Abuse Absent Reasonable Belief of Occurrence
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

PI, Med-Mal Lawyers Face Change in Medical Records Rule

Starting this fall, personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys no longer will have to file boxes and boxes of their clients' confidential medical records with courts when they need to use the records as evidence in a trial.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Stroke Patient Recovers $14 million in Yasmin Trial

A jury has awarded almost $14 million to a Chicago woman who sued her doctor for prescribing the birth control medication Yasmin, which the woman blamed for a disabling stroke and permanent brain injury.
3 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Justices Debate Medical Certainty in Negligence Case

The Delaware Supreme Court asked attorneys whether a doctor's use of the word "likely" was a medical opinion stated in terms of reasonable medical probability or certainty during oral arguments last week in a medical negligence case.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

DeFrancesco v. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, Inc., PICS Case No. 14-0565 (C.P. Lehigh Jan. 31, 2014) Johnson, J. (13 pages).

By | April 22, 2014
Doctor's Failure to Document • Expert Testimony on Standard of Care • Learned Treatises as Authoritative in Practice Area • Scope of Expert Testimony
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge OKs 'Failure to Screen' Claim

A federal judge has allowed the estate of a woman who died of hemopericardium in Lankenau Medical Center's emergency room to proceed with a claim against the hospital for failure to screen under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, finding that the hospital could not adequately articulate its own screening procedure as a defense.
6 minute read

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