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By Alex Anteau | November 20, 2023
According to plaintiff's counsel Mark Meliski, the defense's strategy posed one of the greatest challenges throughout the litigation process—especially once their codefendant admitted negligence a couple of weeks before trial.
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By Colleen Murphy | November 20, 2023
"C.G.'s parents are thankful that the Court of Appeals upheld both the attentive Weld County jury's verdict and the district court's rulings in a detailed, timely, and well-reasoned fashion," the plaintiffs' counsel, Zachary Wool of Barrios Kingsdorf & Casteix in New Orleans, in a statement via email to Law.com.
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By John Lyddane | November 20, 2023
The first half of this series, addressing the historical development of the law in New York on the professional reliability exception to the rule against hearsay, was published on Sept. 18, 2023. This second segment discusses how the professional reliability exception has been applied to the process of medical malpractice adjudication.
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By Cedra Mayfield | November 15, 2023
"We recognize that the comments made by Justice Pinson in his concurrence leave open the possibility of future litigation related to this issue," said appellee counsel Page Powell Jr. of Huff Powell & Bailey.
8 minute read
By Cedra Mayfield | November 14, 2023
"The crux of the case was the failure to obtain a chest CT [scan] after the placement of the mechanical heart pump and before the heart transplant over a year later," said plaintiff counsel Lee Gutschenritter of Finch McCranie in Atlanta.
8 minute read
By Charles Toutant | November 10, 2023
A woman who was left partially paralyzed after childbirth agreed to a $13.5 million settlement in her Middlesex County suit, Mejia v. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
3 minute read
By Allison Dunn | November 2, 2023
A federal judge in West Virginia is allowing a widow's medical malpractice suit to proceed against a temporary staffing and recruiting agency for…
4 minute read
By Emily Cousins | November 2, 2023
"One of the biggest tragedies is when a parent loses a child, and in this case, these are parents who did everything they could," Ernie Teitell, one of the attorneys for the plaintiff, said. "They don't want this to happen to another family."
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By Max Mitchell | October 26, 2023
The case stemmed from the death of Tiffany Allen at age 36 allegedly as a result of an improper cocktail of off-label weight-loss drugs.
4 minute read
By Riley Brennan | October 25, 2023
"The Maryland procedural requirements at issue are neither elements of a malpractice claim nor rules defining a negligence cause of action, but instead are pre-pleading 'barrier[s] to entry meant to weed out malpractice claims,'" said the court.
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