VERDICT: Defense, hospital not negligent in connection with high school football player’s severe brain injury. . . $750,000 settlement with school district. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, CF birth, defense verdict
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Defense verdict affirmed in suit against NP and OB/GYN where mother claimed that had she known baby would have CF she would have aborted… collateral source testimony properly admitted under curative rule… expert testimony within disclosure scope… new trial properly denied based on suggestion that mother was suing out of avarice for herself instead of for the child’s well-being… Salvagni affirmed. [Read more…]
Appeal procedure, hospital malpractice rulings
APPEAL PROCEDURE: “Application for leave to appeal” pretrial rulings/sanctions order in event Supreme Court affirms new-trial order following hospital malpractice defense verdict denied… order. [Read more…]
New trial, hospital malpractice defense verdict
NEW TRIAL granted following hospital malpractice defense verdict based on failure to excuse spouses of hospital employees for cause prior to voir dire, failure to clarify at jury’s request loss-of-chance instruction which mentioned only “doctors” and not health providers generally… H. Brown. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, hospital death, HCM
VERDICT: Defense (negligence but no causation), hospital malpractice, death of patient with pre-existing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, cystic fibrosis child
VERDICT: Defense, medical malpractice, claim that had Plaintiff known daughter would be born with cystic fibrosis she would have terminated pregnancy. [Read more…]