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Med-Mal Firm Webb & Taylor Looking to Build 'All-Star Team,' Eschewing Associate Model

As the firm rethinks its strategy, the pandemic has led it to abandon hiring younger lawyers for the time being.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Jury Finds for Defense in Med-Mal Trial Over Teen's Death Shortly After ER Visit

A defense lawyer said the 17-year-old, diagnosed with viral syndrome and discharged from the emergency room, actually suffered from a rare and untreatable pulmonary condition.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$9.7M Verdict Awarded in Case Over Botched Brain Surgery

A man who suffered long-term neurological injuries from a medical mistake in brain surgery has been awarded a $9.7 million verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Jury Awards $6M to Family Claiming Doctor Didn't Treat Patient's Failing Heart

Although records indicated that the doctor believed the patient's heart was failing, the defense's experts opined that the patient did not exhibit symptoms of congestive heart failure.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Consistent Policy Approach to Continuous Treatment

The single point of agreement seems to be that the policy considerations articulated by the court, before and after codification in CPLR §214-a, have remained the same since the court first spoke to the issue in 1962.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards $9.7M Verdict in Case Over Botched Brain Surgery

Co-lead counsel Shanin Specter—who tried the case with Kila Baldwin—said that the treatment for their client's condition would typically be a craniotomy, but instead, the surgeon opted to use a new, experimental procedure.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

'A Force to Be Reckoned With': Trelvis Randolph Aims to Use the Law to Help More People Thrive

"I want to see more people thriving. The environment in which I grew up in, there wasn't a lot of self empowerment and there were not a lot of opportunities for people to be empowered. They either didn't have the knowledge or resources to do so. So, when you see people who are in a situation due to lack of knowledge, resources and education and you see that enough, you can't just sit there and let it just lie," president Trelvis Randolph said.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

'Don't Sell Patients Procedures They Do Not Need': Miami Attorneys Secure $1.1 M Verdict from Dental Practice

"One thing we argued at trial was that the defendant should have referred the plaintiff to a specialist when it was clear that she needed a higher level of care. It really just comes down to common sense and doing what is in the best interest of patients," partner Francisco Viñas said.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hospital's Staff Failed to Recognize Stroke, Plaintiff Alleged

On Feb. 14, 2018, plaintiff Johanna Weaver, 75, was transported to Phoenixville Hospital, in Phoenixville. She had fallen, and she could not move the left side of her body.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'A Dry Transcript' Helps to Doom Plaintiffs, as Jury Awards Defense Verdict in Georgia Med-Mal Suit

"We couldn't present his story in our way," said plaintiffs attorney Richard Mitchell of Mitchell & Shapiro in Atlanta. "That was tough."
5 minute read

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