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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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By Aleeza Furman | October 23, 2023
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."
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By Colleen Murphy | October 20, 2023
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.
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By Cedra Mayfield | October 20, 2023
"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
By Cedra Mayfield | October 17, 2023
"First, we've got to talk about jurisdiction," said Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren. "We have to assure ourselves that we can be here."
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