Posts Tagged ‘Expert Witness’
When “Normal Healing” Delays Discovery of Medical Malpractice
A new California decision reversing summary judgment in a carpal tunnel case shows why postoperative symptoms and knowledge of malpractice are not the same thing.
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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.
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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.
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When the Diagnosis Was Right but the Message Never Arrived
A $75 million Georgia verdict and a decade of claims data show why communication failures now drive medical malpractice cases, and how attorneys should build them.
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When Business Decisions Become Medical Liability
When Business Decisions Become Medical Liability Medical malpractice litigation has always centered on what happened at the bedside. A physician missed a diagnosis. A nurse failed to escalate. A hospital ignored its own credentialing protocols. These are the familiar fact patterns that have shaped the field for decades. But bedside care does not happen in…
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