State Law Caps on Medical Malpractice Damages: 2019 Update
Earlier this year, the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School took a comprehensive look at compensatory damages caps by state. Not surprisingly, while few states limit ...
Cardiology Expert Witnesses Opine On A Wide Diversity of Cases
The family of Sarah Crayton will receive a $2.6M settlement in the medical malpractice case against the University of Chicago Medical Center and cardiologist Dr. Mardi Gomberg-Maitland. Crayton died in ...
Are PFAS Claims the Next Big Wave of Class Action Litigation
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of chemicals manufactured since the 1940s, have been getting significant attention in the last year. Just recently, Denmark became the first country to ...
Misdiagnosis In Potentially Fatal Conditions
Doctors, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners are all professionally obligated to order the appropriate tests to diagnose potentially fatal conditions like cancer in a timely way. In Doctors Kept Dismissing ...
FDA Recall of Allergan Textured Breast Implants
Investigations into the health risks of breast implants have been going on since the 1980s. Since 2011, one area of focus has been on complaints alleging that textured breast implants ...
Study Ranks Gallbladder Removal Complications as Leading Source of Surgical Malpractice Claims
Every year as many as 1.2 million laparoscopic cholecystectomies (CCY) (or gallbladder removal surgery) are performed in the U.S. making it one of the most commonly performed operations in the ...
Internal Medicine Experts Opine On Virtually Every Medical Condition
Terry Lee Courts filed a medical negligence lawsuit against internist Matthew Harris M.D, in West Virginia’s Cabell Circuit Court (case number 19-C-284). Mr. Courts is the administrator of the estate ...
Battle of the Scientific Studies in Roundup® Cases
Roundup® is the most widely used herbicide in the world. Manufactured by Monsanto, it is a glyphosate-based herbicide that has been available since the mid-1970s. In 2015, the International Agency for ...
Retain A Hand Selected Emergency Medicine Expert Witness
Dr. Rui Amaral Mendes, associate editor of BMJ Case Reports, writes that doctors need to listen carefully to their patients and build a timeline of what happened rather than relying ...
Litigating Parity in Mental Health Insurance Coverage
The fight for insurance coverage for behavioral and substance abuse care has been ongoing for decades. Several federal laws and regulations have been enacted to provide parity in coverage between ...