A San Diego jury recently awarded $46 million to a man who suffered a spinal cord injury during a Brazilian jiu-jitsu lesson, leaving him a quadriplegic. Although martial arts are generally considered “assumed-risk” activities, expert testimony helped the jury distinguish…
In 2008, when Kiera Campbell was four years old, her parents, Todd and Jaime Campbell, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on her behalf stemming from injuries suffered during Kiera’s birth at the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Illinois. After…
An Ada County jury found that the injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Carl B. Stiefel, arose out of the willful and reckless misconduct of the defendants, Emergency Medicine of Idaho LLC and one of its emergency department physicians. The jury…
A recently-signed Florida law seeks to discourage insurance litigation by imposing several new standards and limits. The bill’s supporters claim that its provisions will reduce frivolous lawsuits, protecting businesses and individuals. Opponents, however, note that the bill’s provisions protect insurance…
A U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee recently proposed a rule change that would require attorneys to notify opposing counsel before using illustrative aids at trial. The rule is receiving pushback from attorneys, who testified to the committee that it would…
Background On March 21, 2019, Ms. Adams, 73 years old, presented at Premier Interventional Pain Management in Flower Mound, Texas for an epidural steroid injection to treat her back pain. At approximately 2:30 p.m., Dr. Jon Vu performed the injection.…
The derailment of Norfolk Southern Railway Company’s 38 train cars, many of which were carrying hazardous chemicals, has potentially serious consequences for the region’s air and water quality. While the National Transportation Safety Board chair described the event as “100%…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of the legal field for a while. It has grown from litigators using it to rapidly review mountains of discovery documents to many additional use cases today. AI-enabled legal technology is pervasive, though not…
Since 2011, Connecticut courts have dismissed medical malpractice actions unless the complaint was accompanied by a certificate and opinion letter supporting the claim’s merits. Courts have done so under guidance from the state’s Supreme Court, which held that Connecticut courts…
A Philadelphia County jury found orthopedic surgeon James Bradley and Rothman Orthopaedics Institute negligent in their treatment of the plaintiff, former Philadelphia Eagles’ safety and captain, Chris Maragos. The jury awarded Maragos $43.5 million in damages. Background On October 12,…