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The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards $42.9 Mil. in Premature Birth Case

A Philadelphia jury has handed up a $42.9 million award in a medical malpractice case stemming from the premature birth of a child who suffered multiple physical and cognitive impairments as a result.
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New York Law Journal

Claims Against Sloan Kettering Over Timely Diagnosis Survive

Claims brought by a woman alleging that her doctors failed to timely diagnose and treat her breast cancer are not barred by the two-and-a-half-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Absence of Malpractice Coverage

By | December 20, 2013
If the N.J. Supreme Court requires doctors or surgical centers to advise patients about the lack of medical malpractice insurance because the statute requires such coverage and patients presumably know the law, can a similar disclosure requirement for lawyers be far behind?
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Suits and Deals

By | December 20, 2013
Anesthetist, Hospital To Pay $1.24M for Alleged Brain Injury During Surgery
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Upholds $19.5 Mil. Med Mal Verdict

A Philadelphia judge has upheld a $19.5 million verdict in a case where a woman died from complications of polyp-removal surgery.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Man's $5 Million Claim of Penis Injury During Neck Surgery Doesn't Persuade Cobb Jury

WellStar Health System Inc. has won a defense verdict in a case where the plaintiffs' attorneys asked the jury to award $5 million to a man who they said sustained permanent nerve damage to his penis from a catheter injury during surgery to repair an injured vertebrae.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Suits and Deals

By | December 13, 2013
Large verdicts and settlements in New Jersey.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court Rejects Rule On Expert Witnesses

Citing constitutional issues, the Florida Supreme Court rejected a new rule that would have implemented a change in state law requiring certification of out-of-state expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Opponents Offer Testimony Against Malpractice Bill

Opponents of a bill to scrap the state's medical malpractice tort system and replace it with a worker's compensation-like board have found their own Emory law professor to argue their side. In an earlier committee meeting, an Emory prof testified in favor of Senate Bill 141, called the Patient Injury Act.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

3rd DCA says Ship's Doctor Without a Country Can't Be Sued

A panel of the Third District Court of Appeal voted 2-1 to reverse a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge's ruling, with the author of the majority opinion reproaching the judge for stretching case law to redress what the judge deemed "a nefarious scheme" to avoid being sued.
5 minute read

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