Cook County Jury Awards $101M In Birth Injury Case
A Cook County jury awarded $101M to mother Tequila Snow in a medical malpractice case against West Suburban Medical. Snow gave birth to a severely brain-damaged boy who is now ...
Hire The Emergency Medicine Expert Best Suited To Your Case
The family of Alabama’s Auburn University student Hope Johnson was awarded $9M in a medical malpractice case naming emergency medicine physician Dr. Zenon Bednarski and Dr. David Randall Willis, DO. ...
Will Chlorpyrifos Be the Next Wave of Pesticide-Related Litigation?
While litigation and regulatory battles over the herbicide Roundup® continue, attention is now turning to other classes of agricultural agents including pesticides. One of these is chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate insecticide ...
Medical Malpractice Trends Point to Higher Verdicts in 2020
Medical malpractice claims are a significant cost to doctors and health organizations, which is why several organizations analyze data for insights to help address these risks. Aon and The American ...
The Challenge of Proving Causation for Neck and Back Injuries in Personal Injury Cases
Claims of back and neck injury are common in litigation involving motor vehicle, slip and fall and other accidents. However, back and neck pain are pervasive problems in the general ...
Jury Awards $299.6M In Obstetrics Case
Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Audrey S. Carrion denied Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s motion for a new trial after a jury awarded a record $299.6M judgment against the hospital ...
How Are Hospital Administrators Accountable?
How are hospital administrators accountable in medical negligence cases? While physicians and nurses deliver healthcare directly to patients, the hospital’s leadership is responsible for implementing the policies and procedures that ...
Pros and Cons of Using the Treating Physician as an Expert Witness
The rules of evidence recognize that treating physicians may testify as fact witnesses and/or expert witnesses provided the parties make appropriate disclosures. As the doctor who examined a plaintiff before ...
Concerns Grow Over Delayed Diagnosis of Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report indicating that the total number of reported vector-borne disease cases involving ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas tripled between ...
Urology Expert Testimony Informs The Court
Urology deals with the medical treatment of diseases of the urinary tract. Urologists are M.D.s who complete five years of specialty training during a postgraduate residency in urology. Those who ...