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Marshall Dennehey

Proposed Expert’s Qualification to Proffer Standard of Care Opinions Must Be Evaluated Under the Entirety of Section 512 of the...

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Key Points: Standard of Care: Patient assessment and discussion of procedures to be performed to evaluate the patient prior to surgery fall under the purview of the standard of care, not informed consent....more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

A New Standard of Care for Medical Liability?

A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) triggers a question as to whether the standard of care to evaluate claims for medical malpractice should be changed. For decades, the New Jersey Model...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Key Takeaways from SCOTUS Arguments in Idaho EMTALA Abortion Cases

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Moyle v. United States, Case No. 23-726 and Idaho v. United States, Case No. 23-727. These cases asked the justices to consider whether the...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 21st Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims - October 12th - 13th, Philadelphia, PA

Obstetrics malpractice claims continue to be the most expensive within the medical malpractice arena. The unparalleled faculty of claim specialists, risk managers, medical experts – as well as a wide array of plaintiff and...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 21st Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims - June 27th - 28th, Philadelphia, PA

Hosted by the American Conference Institute, the 21st Annual Advanced Forum on Obstetric Malpractice Claims returns in June with curated content that will ensure that you stay current on the evolving standards of care,...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Legal Pulse: “Active Clinical Practice” Requirements Heightened for Expert Witnesses

A seminal issue in many medical malpractice cases involves qualified expert opinions. Under Ohio law, obtaining such experts is a threshold matter for any medical claim;[1] notable legal safeguards exist to ensure that these...more

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Alabama Civil Appeals Court Holds Error in Judgment Rule Requires Expert Testimony to Establish Standard of Care

Schaeffer v. Thompson, Ala. Cov. App. LEXIS 25 (2020) - Brief Summary - The Alabama Civil Court of Appeals reversed a trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiffs' legal malpractice claims,...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Know Your Trial Message

Trial lawyers understand the need to refine and to help fit the main point of their case into the smallest possible container. In complex litigation, however, that quest for a bottom line can be elusive. You might have your...more

Carlton Fields

Preserved, Actually: Preservation Of Arguments Definitively Rejected By The Trial Court

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Does a party have to reassert an argument previously rejected by the trial court in order to preserve it for appeal? ...more

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