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New Jersey Law Journal

Highway Worker Hit by Dump Truck Settles for $3.25 Million in Camden County

A construction laborer who was left permanently disabled after a dump truck drove over his legs agreed to a $3.25 million settlement in his Camden…
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Dancing Doctor' to Pay $190K to Settle State Claims of Unfair Business Practices

Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte was accused of claiming medical qualifications she did not hold, according to the consent judgment.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Traveler's Tarmac Fall at Newark Airport Yields $3.1M Settlement

A woman who slipped on ice while disembarking from a US Airways flight at Newark Liberty International Airport agreed to a $3.1 million settlement…
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Med-Mal Defense Win Marks Fred Gleaton's Final Jury Trial

Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney founding partner Fred Gleaton said the emotional case involving the death of a newborn was his last trial.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff's Bile Duct Not Transected in Surgery: Defense

On April 19, 2015, plaintiff's decedent Elaine Korabik, 56, a laborer, died from complications following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, or a gallbladder removal.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Punitive Damages for Destroying Records

Without question, the most effective deterrence to the destruction or alteration of medical records in an effort to evade liability for medical malpractice liability is the potential for a punitive damages award to be imposed against the offending party. In their Medical Malpractice column, Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier discuss a decision in which the Second Department upheld such an award for that precise misconduct.
13 minute read

New York Law Journal

Med Mal Case Over Plastic Surgeon's Facial Injection That Blinded Patient Will Proceed

Pointing to a lack of certainty in the surgeon's own deposition testimony, the First Department panel ruled that the surgeon failed to meet his prima facie burden at the dismissal motion stage “of establishing that he did not depart from accepted medical practice in his method of injecting fat into plaintiff’s face.”
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

19 Years After Death, Brooklyn Jury Delivers $5M Verdict in Case of Kidney Transplant Complications

The woman died nearly a year and a half after the transplant surgery, due to a series of complications—including losing her new kidney and being forced back onto dialysis—that her lawyers argued sprang from a urine leak going undiagnosed. The jury found causation for her injuries but not for her death.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Evolving Law of Informed Consent

Trial attorneys must be aware of the often overlapping claims of informed consent and breach of standards of care in order to make strategic decisions regarding which issues will be tried.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court to Weigh Hospital ER Liability

The justices will take up an appeal in a case involving the 2013 death of Suyima Torres, who was taken to Doctors Hospital after she became unconscious following a cosmetic procedure at a clinic.
4 minute read

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