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By P.J. D'Annunzio | August 29, 2017
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has denied class certification to wholesalers of the narcolepsy drug Provigil who claimed that its maker, Cephalon, paid off Ranbaxy Laboratories to delay generic versions of the medication from entering the market.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 28, 2017
A medical malpractice defense attorney mainly representing doctors insured by MagMutual has handled some personal injury cases for plaintiffs over his 18 years of practice, but all of them settled—until this month, when he tried a car wreck case in Troup County Superior Court before Judge Jack Kirby. The result: a $2 million verdict for a two-and-a-half day trial. The jury deliberated for 15 minutes.
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By Greg Land | August 28, 2017
A Cobb County jury awarded more than $3.2 million to the husband of a woman who went into cardiac arrest after medical staff administered multiple narcotics for injuries suffered in a car wreck.
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By Michael Booth | August 25, 2017
A federal magistrate has ruled that a medical malpractice insurance carrier may not use the report of its expert in a lawsuit against a rival carrier and a broker since it did not provide the defendants with research, largely relied on by the expert, during discovery.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 25, 2017
Trial court abused its discretion in transferring venue in appellants' medical malpractice action back to county where premature newborn was hospitalized rather than letting it remain in county where cardiologist read test, diagnosed a condition requiring immediate treatment and made treatment plan but staff did not transmit the plan to hospital where child was in a timely fashion because the alleged negligent acts occurred in county where cardiologist was located. Order vacated.
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By Max Mitchell | August 22, 2017
The alleged misdiagnosis case had been tossed out partly because of Facebook posts indicating the plaintiff knew she suffered from Lyme disease years before filing suit.
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By Celia Ampel | August 18, 2017
The work ethic a Kelley/Uustal attorney learned from her early days on a horse farm put her on a path to success.
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By Max Mitchell | August 18, 2017
When a pregnant woman appeared at her obstetrician's office complaining of headache, backache, hypertension and possible decreased fetal movement a few weeks before her baby was due, she was told to return home, apply Bengay cream to her sore back and “eat bland food” the rest of the day. Those instructions, and the allegations that the on-call obstetrician failed to order follow-up testing, are substantial enough to allow the mother to bring punitive damages claims against the doctor and the OBGYN practice, a judge has ruled.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 17, 2017
A jury in Savannah has awarded $4.475 million to a widow whose husband died in a Reidsville hospital the night after spinal fusion surgery.
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By Michael Booth | August 15, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a doctor who corrected a colleague's alleged surgical errors should not have been permitted to testify on the standard of care in the resulting medical malpractice case.
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