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Legal Malpractice Case Reinstated Against Virginia Medical Malpractice Law Firm

September 19, 2024

In September 2016, Melissa Trent had surgery on her left knee to install a “Sigma” knee replacement device, which was manufactured and sold by “DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.” In addition to Sigma, DePuy also sells a different knee replacement called “Attune” that had not been used for Trent�[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Dismisses Legal Malpractice Case Against Successor Medical Malpractice Lawyer

September 8, 2020

In a legal malpractice case arising out of a botched medical malpractice case, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) applied the three-step sequential analysis of Beauchamp v. Amedio, 164 N.J. 111, 118 (2000) to determine the last possible dat[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Legal Malpractice Lawsuit Arising From Medical Malpractice Claim

June 3, 2020

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated April 13, 2020, held, “we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying the Ruizes’ motion for continuance. While the result of denying the Ruizes’[...]

Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer Agreed To Handle Arizona Medical Malpractice Case And Suffered The Consequences For His Inexperience And Wrongful Conduct

May 26, 2020

An Arizona lawyer whose speciality was bankruptcy got involved in representing six creditors in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case involving an Arizona doctor. Meanwhile, through separate counsel, two of the creditors filed an Arizona medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctor. The Arizona medical malp[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Revives Legal Malpractice Case Arising From Two Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

May 14, 2020

In a legal malpractice case decided by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) on March 30, 2020, the defendant Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyer and his law firm had represented the plaintiffs in two Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuits: one as a r[...]

$1.2M Colorado Legal Malpractice Verdict For Missed Statute Of Limitations In Medical Malpractice Case

February 9, 2020

A Colorado jury has awarded a woman who claimed her Colorado medical malpractice lawyer failed to file her medical malpractice case before the statute of limitations expired $1.2 million in damages against her former lawyer. The woman further claimed that her lawyer attempted to cover up his failure[...]

Legal Malpractice Verdict For Failure To File Timely Colorado Medical Malpractice Case

January 12, 2015

After one week of trial and one day of jury deliberations, a Colorado legal malpractice jury determined on December 8, 2014 that the plaintiff’s former Colorado medical malpractice attorneys were negligent in their failure to file the plaintiff’s Colorado medical malpractice case befo[...]

$4 Million Virginia Legal Malpractice Win Following Medical Malpractice Loss

October 6, 2013

On September 27, 2013, a Richmond (Virginia) Circuit Court jury awarded $4 million to a young woman who became paralyzed from the chest down as a result of alleged medical malpractice that occurred in 2004, in her legal malpractice claim against her prominent Washington, D. C. medical malpractic[...]

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