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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

 

EPs Often Blamed for System Errors : Emergency Medicine News

lww.com

emergency medicine, medical malpractice, physicians, system error. FU2-9 Figure. System designers must reduce the mistakes they cause or be held …


Settlement reached in death of female inmate at Walker County Jail - CBS 42

CBS 42

On June 9, 2020, her family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against PFHS on the basis that their daughter was denied proper medical treatment …

 

Cardiologist ordered to pay $2.6M after foreign material left in patient's femoral artery

Cardiovascular Business

58% of cardiologists have been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit · Michael Walter, Managing Editor. Michael has more than 16 years of …

 

Bell Law Firm Secures $4M for Georgia Woman Following Medical Negligence

Business Wire

Bell Law Firm Secures $4M for Georgia Woman Following Medical Negligence. Jury Trial Found Village Podiatry Center Liable for Severed Nerve During ..


Mother, Baby Each Win Damages for Naval Hospital Birth Injury - Bloomberg Law News

Bloomberg Law News

... damages for noneconomic injuries they each would be entitled to if they'd filed separate medical malpractice lawsuits, the Ninth Circuit said.

 

Will Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Implications of Juror-Litigant Similarity for Your ... - JD Supra

JD Supra

Consider, for example, a medical malpractice case where healthcare providers at a hospital are accused of falling short of the standard of care.


When Could You Be Sued for AI Malpractice? You're Likely Using It Now - Medscape

Medscape

... said Kenneth Rashbaum, a New York–based cybersecurity attorney with more than 25 years of experience in medical malpractice defense.

 

Health care providers, trial lawyers reach deal to raise medical malpractice damages cap

The Nevada Independent

“We know that the issues dealing with medical malpractice are hard fought, they're emotional on both sides,” Sharp said. “We appreciate hospitals …


Split COA rules Patient's Compensation Fund entitled to summary judgment in malpractice case

The Indiana Lawyer

The legal guardians of a teenager filed a medical malpractice action against Jonathan Cavins and the hospital where he was a pediatrician after Cavins ...


Jury reaches defense verdict in $4M med mal action - Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Type of action: Medical malpractice Injuries alleged: Death Name of case: Estate of Hicks v. ACV, Inc. Court: Roanoke Circuit Court Case no.


Culture and malpractice: Contrasting military medical centers and private hospitals in $29.5M verdict

MDLinx

Malpractice suits look different when they originate at federal government facilities. Physicians aren't sued individually at military medical ...

 

LEGAL MALPRACTICE

 

Supreme Court of Texas Runs at the Low Hurdle of Prima Facie Evidence in Anti-SLAPP ...

JD Supra

(A legal malpractice case requires proving that a defendant breached a duty owed to its client that proximately caused damages.) Though the defendant …

 

Communication makes clients happy - Maryland Daily Record

Maryland Daily Record

For over 25 years, Brodsky has represented attorneys in disciplinary cases and legal malpractice cases, and he has served as ethics counsel to …

 

Sides continue to spar in Woodstock Foundation lawsuit - The Vermont Standard

The Vermont Standard

Sligar and Nolan, who are both lawyers, also are seeking to have a claim of legal malpractice dismissed against them.

 

$636 million legal malpractice case heads to trial | Schwartz & Ponterio, PLLC

Schwartz & Ponterio, PLLC

In mid-May, a judge ruled that a law firm must head to trial in a legal malpractice matter that it had – very understandably – been pushing back ...