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The Legal Intelligencer

$32.8 Mil. Verdict Awarded in Chesco Brain Injury Case

A $32.8 million verdict has been awarded to a child who suffers from severe cerebral palsy as the result of sustaining brain damage minutes before birth.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lubell & Rosen defend physicians from medical malpractice claims

Steven Lubell and Julia Ingle helped defend physicians against claims of negligence in a woman's death from a massive pulmonary embolism.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers' Deal Accepts Jury's 10-2 Split in Plaintiffs' Favor

An unusual courtroom wager over the weekend saved lawyers and parties from having to endure a third trial in a high-stakes medical malpractice suit.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge's Handling of Jury Note at Issue

Two weeks after Atlanta attorney Wayne Grant lost a medical malpractice trial over a distressed birth that had left his client's baby a quadriplegic and blind, a juror from the case called Grant at his office.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

UPDATED: Stuck Med-Mal Jury Leans to Plaintiffs; Parties Accept it to End Trial

A deadlocked jury and two battling lawyers came together Saturday afternoon in a surprise conclusion to a medical malpractice trial in Cobb County State Court against a doctor who delivered a baby with profound brain injuries.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$5.1 Mil. Awarded in Montco to Brain-Damaged Woman

A $5.1 million verdict has been awarded by a Montgomery County jury to a woman who was injected with the wrong medication during nasal surgery, causing her to suffer cardiac arrest and sustain brain injuries as a result.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Precluding Med Mal 'Maternal Forces' Defense

Joseph Lichtenstein, the principal of the Law Offices of Joseph M. Lichtenstein, writes: For the most part, the testimony of experts concerning causation is well within the bounds of broadly accepted medical and scientific theory Such testimony is properly challenged through robust cross-examination and is not the subject of a Frye or Parker challenge. Nonetheless, the maternal forces of labor defense has recently been found to be scientifically unreliable by a number of courts in New York.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Allocating Settlements in Medical Malpractice Cases

When a malpractice plaintiff has settled with one or more defendants, and goes to trial against other defendants, how is the settlement allocated?
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

With its Experts Saying C-Section Wasn't Necessary, Defense in Cobb Med-Mal Case Rests

The defense rested late Wednesday in a Cobb County medical malpractice trial the plaintiffs have estimated is worth $50 million.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jury Awards $62 Million in Medical Malpractice Case

A Brooklyn jury has awarded $62 million to a woman who lost both legs and most of her hearing to complications of a gynecological surgery at Winthrop-University Hospital.
2 minute read

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