Victoria Negron

The Expert Institute’s 2017 Legal Blog Post Writing Contest and our Healthcare and Life Sciences Scholarship have officially come to a close! Every year, we offer tenacious law and healthcare students the opportunity to write a blog post demonstrating their…

Kendall Bielak — University of Virginia School of Medicine Kendall Bielak is an M.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Kendall argues that the conventions of informed consent are flawed because they focus more on protecting physicians…

  An Exercise in Trust and Truth: The Role of Adversarial Expert Witnesses as Difference Makers in Law and Society Katie Kotonias McLaughlin — Loyola University Chicago School of Law Katie is a J.D. candidate at Loyola University Chicago School…

  Nadia Eckardt – The University of Washington, School of Law Nadia is a J.D. candidate at The University of Washington, School of Law. Nadia argues there is an uneven application of neuroscience and neurology expert witness testimony in civil…

This case involves a patient with a history of alcohol abuse that presented to the hospital with complaints of abdominal pain. She was admitted to the ICS for management of alcohol withdrawal, put on non-invasive ventilation, and given a sedative. She…

This case involves an elderly man who died as a result of injuries sustained from a paratransit accident. He was not seat-belted into his wheelchair, nor was the chair secured to the paratransit van floor. During an erratic turn by…

This case involves an individual who’s chronic multiple sclerosis allegedly worsened after she took an over the counter diarrhetic. She was prescribed the diarrhetic by her doctor, and after taking the drug, she suffered from involuntary muscle movements and could not feel…

This case involves a 35-year-old pregnant patient from Colorado who presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain in her second trimester. An ultrasound was performed on the patient, and the sonographer interpreted fetal demise, even though he was not…

This case involves an oil and natural gas company which acquired leases in mineral interests. The company retained for itself an overriding royalty interest in those leases, but assigned the rights in those leases to a second company. This second…

This case involves alleged competitive damages suffered by an IT provider that implemented a cloud-based solution for public sector entities. The IT provider successfully completed a large project that was one of the first implementations of this type of solution.…