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Daily Business Review

Suicide Malpractice Case Wends Way Through Court System

The next stop for a medical malpractice case based on a suicide is either the Florida Supreme Court or a Sarasota Circuit Court jury.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Litigator of the Week: Lawyer Wins Big in Med-Mal Case, Gets Lesson in Voir Dire

Not only did David Hodges win a $1.61 million jury award for his client in a medical-malpractice case, he also discovered the potential boon provided by a judge's individual questioning of prospective jurors.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

VerdictSearch: Male Pizza Hut Worker Claims Harassment From Female Manager

By | February 24, 2014
A jury awarded $1,500 to a Pizza Hut delivery driver on his sexual and racial harassment claims, but he won't see any of it.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Psychiatrist Beats Suit Blaming Him for Patient's Killing Mom

After 10 years and two appeals, the guardians of a mentally disabled man who killed his mother weeks after his doctor took him off anti-psychotic medications have walked away with nothing from their medical malpractice suit.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Understanding the Anatomy of Emergency Room Records

Undoubtedly, review of medical records is an almost daily, if not hourly, task for paralegals involved in the area of personal injury. The emergency room records of an injured party convey not only injuries and treatment, but may also reach much deeper into the background and circumstances surrounding an incident or accident.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Maher v. County of Alameda

By | February 19, 2014
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Sixth Circuit Revives Suit Over Alleged Medical Battery

The death of a Tennessee woman who was injected with an anticoagulant to which she was allergic constituted medical battery, a federal appeals court decided Feb. 14, reversing a lower court's ruling.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Implant Award Shocks Plaintiff

Despite unchallenged evidence that a doctor botched efforts to repair a breast implant that burst through a woman's skin, a Fulton County jury awarded her just $125,000 for her injuries
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Error in Judgment' Jury Charge Barred by State Supreme Court

An explicit instruction on "error in judgment" may not be given in a medical malpractice case because it exposes jurors to a subjective standard, a deeply divided state Supreme Court has ruled.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miles A. McGrane Retires Practice

Former Florida Bar president Miles A. McGrane III retired his practice after 38 years.
2 minute read

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