Industry & Litigation Updates
A $23.6M Georgia Verdict Turns on Three Drugs Nobody Prescribed
A Gwinnett County jury returned $23.6 million against PruittHealth after a resident twice tested positive for drugs he was never prescribed. The record behind that verdict is worth studying on both sides of the aisle.
Read More...Social Media Adolescent Addiction Litigation: What Attorneys Need From Medical Experts
MDL 3047 now holds 3,208 pending actions. With the state attorney general claims resolved and the personal injury track moving toward trial, case value turns on child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric nursing and neuropsychology proof.
Read More...Rideshare Sexual Assault Litigation: What Attorneys Need From Medical Experts
MDL 3084 against Uber now carries 4,397 pending actions and the next bellwether trial begins in October 2026. What attorneys need from forensic nurse examiners, emergency clinicians, trauma psychiatrists and toxicologists in rideshare sexual assault cases.
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Can Hospitals Be Liable for Unsafe Staffing? The Expanding Theory of Institutional Negligence
Short staffing is usually treated as an operational problem. For malpractice attorneys it is becoming an evidentiary one, and in the right case a liability theory.
Read More...Suboxone Film Tooth Decay Litigation: What Attorneys Need From Dental and Medical Experts
1,827 actions are pending in MDL 3092 as of the August 3, 2026 JPML report. A look at the Suboxone film dental injury litigation, the science, the bellwether schedule through March 2028, and the dental, addiction medicine and pharmacology experts these cases require.
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