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By Max Mitchell | August 22, 2017
The alleged misdiagnosis case had been tossed out partly because of Facebook posts indicating the plaintiff knew she suffered from Lyme disease years before filing suit.
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By Celia Ampel | August 18, 2017
The work ethic a Kelley/Uustal attorney learned from her early days on a horse farm put her on a path to success.
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By Max Mitchell | August 18, 2017
When a pregnant woman appeared at her obstetrician's office complaining of headache, backache, hypertension and possible decreased fetal movement a few weeks before her baby was due, she was told to return home, apply Bengay cream to her sore back and “eat bland food” the rest of the day. Those instructions, and the allegations that the on-call obstetrician failed to order follow-up testing, are substantial enough to allow the mother to bring punitive damages claims against the doctor and the OBGYN practice, a judge has ruled.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 17, 2017
A jury in Savannah has awarded $4.475 million to a widow whose husband died in a Reidsville hospital the night after spinal fusion surgery.
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By Michael Booth | August 15, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a doctor who corrected a colleague's alleged surgical errors should not have been permitted to testify on the standard of care in the resulting medical malpractice case.
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By Andrew Denney | August 14, 2017
An attorney for more than 1,200 women who say they were injured by the Mirena intrauterine device argued before a federal appeals court on Monday that their dismissed suit should be revived based on Bayer's own admissions that its device can perforate the uterus.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
Trial court erred in precluding plaintiff's conviction for receipt of stolen property, where crimen falsi evidence was per se admissible, and where evidence of the conviction was relevant to plaintiff's wage loss claim. Judgment reversed in part and affirmed in part, case remanded for new trial on damages.
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By Zack Needles | August 10, 2017
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ordered a new trial on compensatory damages against a nursing home management services provider, as well as on punitive damages against that company and its nursing home client in a long-running suit over a resident's death.
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By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | August 10, 2017
Evidence of Informed Consent Erroneously Admitted Where Plaintiff Did Not Raise Lack of Informed Consent Claim
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By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 8, 2017
DFS's Decision Found Arbitrary, Affected By Error; Ordered to Enroll Infant in MIF
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