ACOG Improves Its Guidelines On Brain Injury At Birth (A Little)
For lawyers who represent birth malpractice victims, few phrases conjure up as much ire and frustration as “the ACOG report,” [...]
The Fraternity Mindset: Why Be Responsible When You Can Dodge Responsibility?
Caitlin Flanagan’s “The Dark Power of Fraternities” at The Atlantic, an exposé of the “endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems” [...]
A Doctor’s “Mistake” or “Error in Judgment” Can Still Be Malpractice
In most medical malpractice cases, the default defense is: “medicine is so complex and mysterious that there is no standard [...]
The Reality of Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice
For years, I’ve written about the prevailing myths about medical malpractice law, from the falsehoods about defensive medicine to the [...]
Allegedly Abused Prisoner Wins Unanimous Supreme Court Tort Case (Was It All Justice Alito’s Doing?)
Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously held in Millbrook v. United States that 28 U.S.C. § 2680(h) — the statute that [...]
On The Legality of Referral Fees: The NJ Civil Rights Attorney’s Fee Fight
“Referral fee” can mean a lot of different things in the law. The plainly unethical version involves lawyers paying non-lawyers [...]
How Much Is Too Much To Pay For A Workers’ Compensation Attorney?
Earlier this week, The Legal Intelligencer published an article on attorney’s fees* in workers’ compensation** cases that’s currently pending before [...]
Proving Negligent Hospital-Acquired Infection Through Bacterial Genes
Imagine you are a medical malpractice attorney. Your client, in the hospital for surgery or childbirth or some other invasive [...]
A Trial Lawyer’s Guide To Taser Lawsuits
I suppose it’s unsurprising that criminal defense lawyers and plaintiff’s lawyers would all have concerns about the use of Tasers [...]
When Should The Statute Of Limitations Run For Medication Lawsuits?
Last week, our firm blog posted a short note about how Actos patients with bladder cancer in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee [...]