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Colorado Supreme Court Allows Disclosure Of Recording Of Initial Meeting Between Plaintiff And Her Medical Malpractice Lawyer

December 19, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado (“Colorado Supreme Court”) held in its deeply-divided opinion filed on December 3, 2018: “the presence of a third party during an attorney-client communication will ordinarily destroy the attorney-client privilege unless the third party’[...]

Neurosurgeon Testifies During Negligent Credentialing Trial In Illinois

December 18, 2018

A neurosurgeon who allegedly operated on the wrong side of a patient’s spine, causing the patient to suffer a severe injury, testified on behalf of the defendant hospital on November 28, 2018 in an Illinois case alleging that the hospital where the surgery was performed was negligent in creden[...]

Connecticut Nursing Home Has 91-Year-Old Man Arrested For Trying To Kiss His Resident Wife

December 17, 2018

A Connecticut nursing home reportedly had a 91-year-old man arrested at the nursing home after he attempted to kiss his wife in her room. The wife has been at the nursing home for one and a half years. The Connecticut police reported that they have been called to the Connecticut nursing home 26 time[...]

Maryland Class Action Lawsuit Contends Pharmaceutical Company Unlawfully Barred Generic Version Of Its Drug

December 16, 2018

On November 20, 2018, a proposed federal class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Actelion Clinical Research, Inc., and Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (“Actelion”) alleging that Actelion enga[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Conflicting Experts’ Testimony Precluded Summary Judgment For Defendant Urologist

December 15, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on November 1, 2018 that the defendant urologist in a Georgia medical malpractice case was not entitled to summary judgment because of contradictory testimony by the plaintiff’s experts. The Geor[...]

$13M Manhattan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Colorectal Surgeon

December 14, 2018

A Manhattan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant colorectal surgeon at the conclusion of trial in mid-November 2018, awarding the surviving family of a stay-at-home mother and wife to a police officer, who died as a result of medical negligence, a total of $13 million.[...]

CDC Reports Drug Overdose Deaths Tripled From 2011 To 2016; Fentanyl Now Ranked Number One For Drug Overdose Deaths In U.S.

December 13, 2018

The CDC’s National Vital Statistics Report issued on December 12, 2018 entitled Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016 reported: “From 1999 through 2016, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled from [...]

Ex-NFL Football Player Files $180M Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleging Unnecessary, Career-Ending Knee Surgery

December 12, 2018

On November 6, 2018, a former NFL football player filed a $180M medical malpractice lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit In And For Orange County, Florida against a well-known orthopedic surgeon claiming that the defendant recommended and performed unnecessary knee surgey on th[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Inadmissible Expert Testimony

December 11, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) affirmed a defense verdict in a Maryland medical malpractce case in an unreported opinion filed on December 7, 2018, despite the inadmissible testimony of a defense fact witness who was a physician at the hospital wher[...]

The Rising Rates Of Autism In U.S. Children

December 10, 2018

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability defined by diagnostic criteria that include deficits in social communication and social interaction, and the presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities that can persist throughout life. An article app[...]

FDA Issues Safety Communication For Pain Pump Medications

December 9, 2018

On November 14, 2018, the FDA issued a safety communication in which it warned that patients undergoing treatment or management of pain who are given pain medicines in the spinal fluid (intrathecal administration) that are not FDA approved for use with the implanted pump may be subjected to addition[...]

OIG Advisory Opinion Warns Drug Company Its Proposal To Provide Drug For Free May Be Illegal

December 8, 2018

The Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued an advisory opinion posted on November 16, 2018 that concluded that a drug company’s proposal to provide free product to hospitals for their use exclusively to treat inpa[...]

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