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Injury Attorneys: Juries Remain Critical as New Abortion Laws, 'Personhood' Issue Potentially Bring New Litigation

"The personhood movement in various states seeks to expand, as I understand it, the definition of a person and provide them with legal protections, while at the same time seeking to reduce the legal protections of their own citizens," medical-malpractice plaintiff attorney Lloyd Bell said.
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New York Law Journal

Manhattan Jury Awards $28.5M to Former New York Giants Player Who Claimed Medical Malpractice Ended His Career

Michael Cox claimed that Dr. Dean Lorich, who operated on his ankle at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center's Hospital for Special Surgery, cleared Cox to return to full training after failing to properly handle the injury to his cartilage.
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New York Law Journal

Recent Appellate Decisions: Pretreatment Agreements, Ex Parte Interviews

As demonstrated by recent cases, the law pertaining to 'Arons' authorizations is fairly well developed at this point.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Defendants' $3.8M Error Attributed to Itemized Verdict Slip, Pennsylvania High Court Rules

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the defendants waived their right to a new trial under the general verdict rule because they did not ask the jury to identify how much of the verdict was awarded based on the specific pain-and-suffering damages the defense sought to challenge.
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Daily Report Online

Injury Attorneys See New Abortion Laws, 'Personhood' Issue Creating 'A New Practice Area'

"You don't hear about the cases that don't result in verdicts. That said, there's lots of speculation that verdicts are larger now, post-COVID, and that's reflecting on a greater societal view," Lloyd Bell, a longtime medical-malpractice plaintiff attorney, said of recent seven- and eight-figure verdict awards regarding baby-related cases.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston Jury Returns $95.5M Verdict for Brain-Damaged 4-Year-Old Improperly Sedated by Dentist

"The evidence in trial was heartbreaking. A 30-pound girl, little more than a toddler, was physically and chemically suffocated by an out-of-control, financially motivated dentist," said plaintiffs counsel Ryan Skiver.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Returns $19.7M to Penn Medicine Patient, Largest State Medical Malpractice Verdict in 2022

"People in this country are becoming more conscious and aware of these problems, particularly because it has, in fact, affected so many people," said Tom Bosworth of Kline & Specter.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton Jury Awards $5M to Couple in Med-Mal Case Over Brain Injury

During a minor surgical procedure, the plaintiff was given "too much propofol too fast," causing complications that led to "permanent cognitive defects," his lawyers said.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Causation Defense as a Matter of Law

The trial and appellate courts recognize that the causation element is vital to the plaintiff's prima facie case, and that without both factual and expert support for the causal link, there is no issue of fact for the jury. The court will rule on the issue as a matter of law, but it is incumbent upon defense counsel to identify the causation defenses and develop them to provide a basis for their determination as a matter of law.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Birth Injury Case Resolves For $13 Million in Hudson County

A Hudson County Superior Court judge on May 10 granted approval to a $13 million settlement in a medical malpractice suit, Williams v. Jersey City…
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