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Doctor’s sympathetic statement to patient cannot be used as evidence of liability

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its opinion in Estate of Johnson v. Randall Smith, Inc., Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-1507. In Johnson

Liability insurers may have duty to defend against federal prosecutions, California Court of Appeal holds

  • Barger & Wolen LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The Second Appellate District of California held on May 1 in Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Lopez that California Insurance Code section 533.5(b) does not

Malpractice actions by multiple clients for separate services do not constitute related claims

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, has held that four lawsuits alleging legal malpractice arising out of a mass

Novel “bad faith admission” EMTALA theory survives motion to dismiss

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's (CCRMC) motion to dismiss

No coverage for claim first made prior to inception of claims-made policy

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, applying New Hampshire law, has held that no coverage was available for a legal

Fourth Circuit upholds lengthy “stent” for interventional cardiologist

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

Can a cardiologist be sent to prison for performing medically unnecessary stent procedures, even though he stented a considerably lower percentage of

Failure to retain tax and audit records may subject accountants to liability

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

Record retention is an important aspect of all fiduciary relationships, a truism that applies equally to accountants

In California, a settling defendant may not be truly out of the case

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 4 2012

The California Supreme Court recently ruled that in cases where the trial judge has not certified that a settlement was reached in good faith, the non-settling defendants may later sue the settling defendant if the jury apportions additional fault to the settling defendant

Plaintiffs in hepatitis C action awarded $500 million in punitive damages from two UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 15 2013

A Nevada jury April 9 found two UnitedHealth Group Inc. subsidiaries must pay $500 million in punitive damages for failing to adequately oversee Dr

The Seventh Circuit bars malpractice coverage for an insured law firm despite the firm’s subjective belief that it represented its client correctly

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In Koransky, Bouwer & Poracky, P.C. v. The Bar Plan Mutual Ins. Co., No. 12-1579 (7th Cir. Apr. 2, 2013), the Seventh Circuit affirmed summary