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Atlanta Lawyers Notch $1M Award for Ex-Inmate Over Untreated Prison Injury

A pair of Atlanta lawyers represented the prison inmate who hurt his hand playing Frisbee and had to wait nearly eight months for surgery.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Claim That Doctor Failed to Monitor Fatal Surgery Yields $4.2M Settlement in Atlantic County

A $4.2 million settlement was reached on July 3 in Niedzwiadek v. Anmuth, the Atlantic County case of a Southampton woman who died following routine…
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Physician's Duty to Non-Patients

In his Medical Malpractice Defense column, John L.A. Lyddane writes: By definition in New York, liability for medical malpractice long depended on the existence of a doctor-patient relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant. Over time there have developed narrow exceptions to the general rule. Liability for medical malpractice has been extended to non-patients, and it is useful to examine how this has come about.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Sanitation Worker Recovers $4.35 Million in Ocean County For Loss of Leg

A man whose left leg was amputated after he was struck by a commercial vehicle agreed to a $4.35 million settlement in his Ocean County suit, Bland…
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Client's Case Dismissed After Attorney Filed Key Document 19 Minutes Late

Smith Clinesmith associate Paul J. Downey of Dallas, who represented plaintiff Dorcus Simmons in the case, said his firm was weighing options to appeal the ruling.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

New London Attorney Clinches $2M Settlement in Med-Mal Suit Against Veterans Affairs Department

Attorney Kelly Reardon represented James Hoznor's estate, which received a $2 million settlement from the U.S. government, stemming from alleged neglectful conduct of three VA doctors who were allegedly 18 months late in diagnosing Hoznor's tongue cancer.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Infant Injury Case Against Heart Surgeon Goes Forward Amid Questions of Proximate Cause

A state appeals court wrote that the medical malpractice suit will proceed as “conflicting factual testimony and medical opinion in the record present issues of fact as to whether any departures were a proximate cause of any physical, psychiatric or emotional injury to the infant.”
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Hospital in Johns Hopkins System Hit With $229M Verdict in Birth Injury Lawsuit

A Baltimore jury handed up the nine-figure verdict in a case over allegations that health care providers gave the mother inaccurate predictions about the possible outcome of the birth after she began to experience preeclampsia.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Monmouth Jury Awards $2.5 Million in Med Mal Case Over Complications From Foot Surgery

A Monmouth County jury on June 5 awarded $2.5 million to a woman for complications following foot surgery in her suit against her podiatrist, Ronneberg…
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

Former Adversaries Team Up on $180M NFL Player's Lawsuit

Solo practitioner Brad Sohn has teamed up with Boies Schiller Flexner attorney Mark Heise to represent former Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle in a medical malpractice suit that alleges a procedure ended the football player's career.
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