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Florida Governor signs new medical liability reforms into law

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 13 2013

On June 5, 2013, Governor Rick Scott signed into law SB 1792, implementing new reforms for medical negligence actions, and HB 7015, changing the

2013 medical malpractice reform legislation

  • Carlton Fields PA
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2013

In less than a month, the way medical malpractice cases are handled in Florida will change significantly. The Florida Legislature passed SB 1792

Res ipsa loquitur, or maybe not

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2013

We haven't written much about res ipsa loquitur on the blog, and today's case doesn't really qualify as a drug or device case per se, but it's an

Duty to train as educational malpractice

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2013

We've posted about the purported "duty to train"before. It's another of those supposed torts (like duty to test) that's really little more than duty

The role of medical malpractice litigation in reforming patient care

  • Shook & Stone
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

In a recent article published by the New York Times,UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz discussed her recent survey of hospital administrators and

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

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

Supreme Court of Ohio protects physician’s statement of comfort under Apology Statute

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio reversed the decision of the Eleventh District Court of Appeals and applied Ohio Revised Code 2317.43

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