• The Florida Supreme Court has dealt a significant blow to Florida's medical malpractice pre-suit process, ruling that statutes authorizing the conduct of informal, ex parte interviews with a medical malpractice claimant's...more
11/14/2017
/ Discovery ,
Ex Parte ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Frivolous Lawsuits ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Interviews ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Physician-Patient Confidentiality ,
Physicians ,
Right to Privacy ,
State Constitutions
• The Florida Supreme Court has reversed a decision of the Florida Second District Court of Appeal and held that an analysis of a medical malpractice claim sent by an attorney to an external medical review company in...more
10/30/2017
/ Appeals ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Peer Review ,
Physicians ,
Public Disclosure ,
Reversal ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
State Constitutions ,
Work-Product Doctrine
The federal court system and 36 states have adopted the so-called Daubert standard in place of the Frye standard when it comes to qualifying expert witnesses under the rules of evidence. In 2013, the Florida Legislature...more
2/23/2017
/ Admissibility ,
Daubert Standards ,
Discovery ,
Evidence ,
Expert Testimony ,
Expert Witness ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Florida ,
Life Sciences ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Trials