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The Legal Intelligencer

Surgical Instrument Company Agrees to Pay Brain-Injured Man $12.75M in Defective Equipment Lawsuit

A surgical equipment company has agreed to pay $12.75 million to a man who suffered brain damage when the tip of one of its laser probes broke off during surgery.
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Daily Report Online

Delayed Cancer Diagnosis Lands $12.5M Verdict in Macon After Repeated Attempts to Settle

A plaintiffs lawyer said there were multiple opportunities to settle the case, but the defense only got serious about a high-low deal once the jury announced a verdict.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Clarify Provider Immunity Under Mental Health Procedures Act

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has clarified when the law granting immunity to health care providers who treat mental illness can be implemented.
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New York Law Journal

Claims of Internal Medicine Docs' Failure to Discover Lung Cancer Can Go Forward

"Plaintiff's expert ... opined that, had decedent been given a chest X-ray prior to October 2012, the lung cancer would have been discovered before it entered Stage IV, and, thus, she would have had a greater chance of survival," the Appellate Division, First Department wrote in allowing certain claims to go forward against the Manhattan medical group and two of its physicians.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

New Trial Order in Medical Negligence Case Against Einstein Upheld

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld an order granting a new trial in a lawsuit against Einstein Medical Center after the jury found that its care of a surgical patient was negligent, but not the cause of her injury.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Prescription Error Blamed for Causing Permanent Injuries

A jury awards nearly $5 million to a woman who sued a mail-order pharmacy.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Superior Court to Justices: We Need More Guidance on Medical Peer Review Privilege

"In light of the fact that the Supreme Court assumed that documents in a credentialing file are not peer review documents and in this case, the documents at issue are peer review documents, it would be helpful for the Supreme Court to grant allocatur and address this issue directly," the Superior Court panel wrote.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

$9.7M Award Against Lawyer Spotlights Missing Safeguard in Arbitration

Puerto Rico attorney David Efron moved to postpone arbitration when his Florida attorney withdrew at the eleventh hour citing "irreconcilable differences."
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices Refuse to Reconsider Statute of Repose Ruling, Sparking Stinging Dissent From Wecht

Justice David Wecht did not agree with the court's decision denying reconsideration and issued a strongly worded statement dissenting to the court's order.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge: NY Hospital Can Be Sued in Phila. for Post-MRI Contact With Patient in Pa.

A Philadelphia judge has allowed a medical malpractice lawsuit to proceed against New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, finding that jurisdiction is proper in part because the claims revolve around allegedly false MRI results the hospital provided to the now-deceased plaintiff after he had returned home to Pennsylvania.
3 minute read

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