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Each week the ABPLA provides a summary of news articles of interest to attorneys who practice professional liability and the consumers of legal services. The majority of the stories provided each week will be from various mainstream media outlets around the country. If you have a news story you think would be of interest please contact the ABPLA.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY IN THE NEWS
 Week ending August 19, 2018
MEDICAL Statutory Caps and Recent Judicial Intervention May Bring Sky High Verdicts Back to the Ground JURIST Or, caps may be directed toward certain types of claims, typically medical malpractice or product liability, and not general personal injury cases.
Business Insurance Radiologists are involved in 15% of diagnosis-related medical malpractice claims, second only to those of general medicine health care providers, ...
Man suing doctor asks judge to keep his penis pics sealed from public record New York Post An East Village man acted as his own lawyer when he filed a medical-malpractice lawsuit against Manhattan dermatologist Dana Stern, claiming she ...
7th Circuit rules for paramedic in patient-arrestee's death Indiana Lawyer It also found that all six state-law claims were subject to the substantive terms of Indiana's Medical Malpractice Act, including damage caps and the ...
Charleston Post Courier That answer posed a problem for Williams' case because the legal window to file a malpractice lawsuit has already passed. The case may still ...
Connecticut Supreme Court Lets $12 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict Stand Law.com The state Supreme Court has overturned a Connecticut Appellate Court's ruling, and affirmed a jury's $12 million medical malpractice award for a ...
Former Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin sues hospital, doctors Newsday- Former Jefferson Airplane lead singer Marty Balin has filed a new medical malpractice suit in Manhattan federal court against Mount Sinai Beth ...
LEGAL Foley & Lardner Beats DQ Bid In Fla. Legal Malpractice Suit Law360 Law360 (August 13, 2018, 5:45 PM EDT) -- A Florida federal court refused Friday to disqualify Foley & Lardner LLP from representing a Florida ...
Kasowitz, After Suing Another Firm, Faces Its Own Malpractice Claim Law.com Kasowitz Benson Torres' brief representation of a former U.S. ambassador in a legal malpractice lawsuit has spawned a separate malpractice case ...
Madison County Record The East St. Louis law firm Keefe & Griffiths PC argues that a man's $10 million law suit had been previously dismissed from federal court before he ... |