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Med Mal Defense Litigator Gary Samms Jumps to Marshall Dennehey

Samms spent the last 26 years at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, where he chaired the professional liability group and catastrophic loss groups.
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New York Law Journal

Issue Preclusion in Medical Malpractice Defense

"Two related purposes of issue preclusion are to ensure finality of decisions and to avoid inconsistent adjudications of identical issues," writes John L. A. Lyddane.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Med Mal Claim Over Partial Vision Loss Nets $2.5 Million Settlement

The plaintiff alleged that her condition worsened under the doctor's care and that the doctor did the bare minimum to address spikes in her interocular pressure.
3 minute read

Law.com

Idaho Supreme Court Mulls Regional Standards of Care for Medical Negligence in Lawsuit Underlying Legal Mal Action

"If you're out in the trenches like me, and I've handled a lot of medical malpractice cases, I'm going to make certain that the expert and the doctor that is being sued are of the same training so that you can establish that they both have the same standard of care because that's where most of these cases break down," Gary L. Cooper, a partner at Cooper & Larsen, argued on behalf of the defendant attorney Monday.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Saxton & Stump Adds Health Care Litigator From White and Williams

Daniel Ferhat, whose work centers on medical malpractice defense, spent over two decades at White and Williams.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$43.5M Med Mal Verdict for Ex-Eagles Team Captain Withstands Appellate Challenge

"Putting a price tag on a dream is not an easy task. In the instant case the jury considered the evidence presented to reach their verdict and it does not shock the conscience where plaintiff went from a dream job in the NFL to a lifetime of pain and disability resulting from the improper repair and rehab of his knee injury."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Case Remanded to Philadelphia Court: Addressing Circuit Split, Federal Judge Rejects FiberCel Manufacturers' Fraudulent-Misjoinder Claims

"A closer examination of this split reveals that the circuits also differ on the precise contours of the doctrine. For example, courts disagree on whether state or federal joinder law governs the analysis and whether something beyond mere misjoinder is necessary to support a claim of fraudulent misjoinder," wrote U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

$1.25M Settlement Reached for Paralysis After Spinal Stimulator Implanted

The defendants also claimed the plaintiff was partly to blame for waiting five days after the device was implanted.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

$100M South Florida Verdict: 'No Amount of Money Can Undo the Harm'

"The most challenging part was explaining the unexplainable," said plaintiffs counsel Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen partner Aimee Ferrer.
3 minute read

Law.com

'Let's Be Blunt': State Court Justice Urges Revision of Civil Service Defense Rules to 'Prevent Gamesmanship'

"While that behavior does not violate the civil rules, it does affront the goals and values of the civil-justice process," a concurring justice wrote.
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