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Judge Rejects Health Care Recruiter's Bid to Be Dismissed From Lawsuit Over Independent Contractor's Alleged Negligence

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

Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigants Plan to Donate Any Award From Wrongful-Death Lawsuit

"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."
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Facing Sympathetic Plaintiff and Millions in Economic Damages Alone, Doctor Nets Defense Win in Phila. Court

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

The Legal Intelligencer

Citing Months-Old 3rd Circ. Ruling, Judge Denies Feds' Motion to Dismiss Med Mal Suit on Procedural Grounds

"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.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Temple Health Responds to $30M Med Mal Defeat With Reinvented Defense Strategy

John Ryan, general counsel of Temple University Health System, called the hospital's recent loss, "disappointing but not surprising," and said, "We were not putting our best foot forward with the quality of lawyering."
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Division: Trial Court Misapplied Learned Intermediary Doctrine to Med Mal, Strict Liability Claims Against Pharmacies

The New Jersey Appellate Division sided with the father of a girl who died of a drug overdose in his claim filed against several New Jersey pharmacies, finding that it was error to preclude consideration of the plaintiff's claims under the learned intermediary doctrine.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Henry County Jurors Return $16.4M Verdict Over Georgia Patient's Suicide

"We were brutally honest about the fact that John took his own life on a night where he was drinking pretty heavily," said plaintiff attorney Andrew J. Conn of Harris Lowry Manton.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Unique Remote-Work Issue Is Dividing Georgia Courts

"First, we've got to talk about jurisdiction," said Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren. "We have to assure ourselves that we can be here."
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Justices See Risk of Eroded Patient Protections in Defense's Discovery Rule Interpretation

"You could always take the treating physician to the law firm and then, voila, they're the client," Justice Sallie Mundy said.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Med Mal Plaintiff Loses Bid to Seek Punitive Damages on Top of $21.3M Award

"It's not that the judge needed to endorse the plaintiff's viewpoint that it was reckless," Thomas Bosworth said, "it's merely that the judge needed to allow the jury to make that decision."
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