Professional Liability in the News
Week Ending March 28, 2020MEDICAL
Stimulus Bill Would Boost Liability Protection for Volunteer Docs Bloomberg Law But those protections break down when volunteering across state lines, said William A. Ramsey, a medical malpractice attorney at Barrett McNagny …
Social Inflation's Impact on the Insurance Industry Law.com While the rise in losses in the medical malpractice space is front and center in the social inflation phenomenon, the industry is also witnessing adverse …
What practices need to know about cyber insurance Medical Economics ... cyber coverage they had through their medical malpractice insurance. ... many healthcare providers, most of whom are only familiar with malpractice …
Suit for Implanting Wrong Device Doesn't Need Expert Evidence Bloomberg Law Nevada law requires trial courts to dismiss medical professional negligence complaints that aren't accompanied by a medical expert affidavit, the …
Hospital Liability for Ventilator Shortages Reason Courts have at times imposed malpractice liability when a hospital failed to provide a service that might have benefited a patient. For example, in …
Award Is Reduced in Mercy Malpractice Case - After Appeal and Mandate The Missourian The largest malpractice judgment ever awarded by a Franklin County jury has ... Most of the damages awarded in the judgment were for future medical ...
LEGAL Plaintiffs Entitled to Substantial Deference in Choice of Forum JD Supra (press release) ... Illinois for legal malpractice in an underlying medical malpractice matter. ... in determining whether their local attorneys committed legal malpractice.
K&L Gates Loses Dismissal Appeal in Conflict Case Bloomberg Law ... trade practices should go forward, the judges took a more restrained view about another Quantum claim, that the firm engaged in legal malpractice.
Legal Malpractice Suit Over Mesh Fees Dismissed Law.com A federal judge has dismissed a legal malpractice lawsuit against six law firms in New Jersey and Texas accused of using invalid retainer agreements …
Legal Malpractice and COVID-19: The Devil Is in the Details and Follow the Money Law.com I anticipate a COVID-19 legal malpractice upswell (nothing as dramatic as a tsunami), and it does not take much of an imagination to see why. |
