/personal-injury-medical-malpractice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Copyright 2025 °µÍø½ûÇø. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:32:27 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350410?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350410 A Florida insurance fraud investigator faces a third federal lawsuit alleging he lied in a report that led to the malicious prosecution of an independent roofing contractor whose charges were later dismissed because prosecutors couldn't substantiate the accusations. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:15:49 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350544 R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco producers have accused Philip Morris USA of trying to derail a deal with Washington state last spring to resolve longstanding payment disputes stemming from Big Tobacco's 1998 master settlement agreement, according to a new lawsuit in Washington state court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:28:48 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350542 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday greenlit a suit accusing a gynecologist of negligently giving a patient a note stating that she required a service dog which later mauled a toddler, saying the alleged negligence is not a malpractice claim, therefore the plaintiffs did not need a medical expert's opinion. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:16:21 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350629?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350629 Southwest Airlines can't nix a racial discrimination suit after a flight attendant incorrectly reported a mother and her young daughter for suspected child trafficking, a Colorado federal judge ruled Friday, noting the case turns on conflicting testimony that can't be adjudicated via summary judgment. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:29:38 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2348947?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2348947 An employee has asked the en banc Eleventh Circuit to rethink its ruling that wholesale restaurant supply store McLane Foodservice Inc. is not liable for injuries suffered by an employee who was set on fire at work by a former partner, arguing it took too narrow a view on foreseeability. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:28:08 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350551 Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's $2.3 million jury verdict over a mid-transport crash, while also casting doubt on the family's contention that the defendant had forfeited its appeal rights. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:54:22 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350579?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350579 The Texas Supreme Court on Friday closed a "gaping jurisdictional loophole" that allowed defendants to challenge jurisdiction in just about any case involving multiple plaintiffs, saying the mere presence of multiple plaintiffs is not enough to invoke appellate review. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:27 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350034 The Texas attorney general's office told the state's Supreme Court that a lower court went too far by blocking an investigation into an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that allegedly had knowledge about outside parties performing gender-affirming care on minors, saying the court undermined the AG's investigative authority. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:04:33 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350564 A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:07:52 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349898?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349898 Selective Insurance Company of South Carolina doesn't have to increase its payout to a couple involved in a car wreck, the Fourth Circuit has ruled, finding that North Carolina law doesn't provide that the couple's many insurance policies can be stacked. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:05:36 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349931 A chiropractor's insurer must pay a $1.1 million award entered against him and the clinic where he works in a suit over injuries that a woman sustained during treatment, the clinic's insurer told a New York federal court, saying the other carrier's policy provides primary coverage. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:04:06 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349888?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349888 Two basketball players suing Seton Hall University with claims their injuries were minimized so they could continue playing told a New Jersey federal judge Thursday that the lawsuit is about gross negligence, not their personal injuries, in a response to a motion for summary judgment. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:23:58 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350000 Civil litigation firm Goldberg Segalla LLP has added a trial lawyer who is an expert in complex asbestos litigation, product liability, personal injury and commercial litigation matters to its toxic torts and environmental law group in Garden City, New York. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:06:03 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350287?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350287 In this week's Off The Bench, an appeals court says Michael Jordan's auto racing team cannot compete amid an antitrust suit against NASCAR, the Chicago White Sox start a long ownership transfer process, and the woman who accused a college football coach of sexual harassment sues the university over its handling of the complaint. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:10:40 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350082?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350082 Counsel for OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury that Daedone's provocative teachings involving "orgasmic meditation" don't matter to the forced labor conspiracy charges she and her deputy face, unlike the free will of those who say they were victimized. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:56:53 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350015?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350015 An Indiana state appeals court Thursday upheld a defense win in a medical malpractice trial despite a juror's post-verdict revelation that she had previously heard of a defense expert witness. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:56:27 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349720 The U.S. Department of Justice pushed to keep its water quality expert in North Carolina federal court on Wednesday, saying that the Camp Lejeune toxic water plaintiffs' critique of him was "fundamentally flawed" and experts on both sides relied on some of the same science. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:51:41 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349945?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349945 A California judge has affirmed a jury verdict awarding $50 million to a gig economy driver who suffered a severely burned penis after scalding hot tea spilled in his lap due to a Starbucks worker's negligence, saying the verdict was not excessive given his "horrific injuries." Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:52:00 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349955?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349955 The family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly killed and later dismembered by a couple she met through the Grindr dating app has sued the company in Florida federal court, alleging there were no age verification safeguards that prevented the teen from being targeted by sexual predators.