/personal-injury-medical-malpractice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:13:09 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351427?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351427 The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether the state's two-year statute of limitations applies to a lawsuit against Regency Hospital Co. and one of its nurses over claims that they neglected an allegedly incapacitated patient to the point that her tongue had to be amputated.  Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:38:32 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351789?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351789 The U.S. government has urged a Georgia federal judge to dismiss negligent inspection and maintenance claims by the parents of a teen killed when a partition wall at Robins Air Force Base collapsed, arguing they are barred under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:04:14 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351671?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351671 House lawmakers in Pennsylvania have passed a pair of bills that could allow those who suffered from sexual abuse as minors to file a lawsuit decades after the statute of limitations expired, explicitly waving sovereign immunity defense for state agencies. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:44:43 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351831?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351831 Oregonians, including a photographer and a charter boat operator, were awarded $27.97 million in noneconomic damages in the latest trial against utility PacifiCorp over wildfire damage, much less than the $100 million requested for the 10 plaintiffs. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:07:09 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351699 A California appeals panel has wiped out a $30 million verdict against the Los Angeles Unified School District in a suit by a mother whose son was killed by an employee during Christmas break 2019, saying state law grants immunity to the district in this instance. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:19:25 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351194?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351194 Victims stalked by abusers of Apple's AirTag asked a California federal judge to certify their proposed class action, arguing their negligence and product liability claims can be adjudicated in one fell-swoop since they rest on the same question of whether the tag's design unreasonably put them at risk of harm. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:08:06 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351421?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351421 Wells Fargo Bank NA cannot collect on a $4 million life insurance policy, a Nebraska federal court ruled, finding the policy void from the start since it was taken out on the life of a now-deceased man with the intended purpose of benefiting an investor. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:10:42 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351230?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351230 A Missouri man awarded $1.2 million for a failure-to-warn claim alleging Roundup weed killer caused his cancer urged the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Monsanto's petition for review, saying the company is only trying to avoid liability. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:01:34 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351417?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351417 A Michigan appellate court has revived a lawsuit filed by the estate of an 88-year-old woman who died after developing a bedsore during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that a state law shielding hospitals from pandemic liability didn't apply because the woman wasn't treated for the virus. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:58:13 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351137?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351137 A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife are pursuing a federal lawsuit based on speculative allegations and trying to "chill" the First Amendment rights of a Connecticut attorney who represented their ex-landlord and leaked a story about them to the New York Post, the defendant is arguing in seeking judgment in his favor. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:55:32 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351638?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351638 The Third Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that an attorney representing former NFL players seeking concussion litigation settlement proceeds made "material misrepresentations and omissions" concerning medical records during the claims process, for which he was censured by the lower court. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:53:23 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350861?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350861 The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:24:56 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349793?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2349793 Destroying self-incriminating evidence to avoid a large judgment may seem like an attractive option to some defendants, but it is a shortsighted strategy that affords the nonspoliating party potentially case-terminating remedies, and support for a direct assault on the spoliator’s credibility, say attorneys at Mandelbaum Barrett. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:20:19 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351247?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351247 The U.S. government cannot throw out a boutique law firm's suit that seeks a refund of $282,000 in pandemic-era worker retention credits and a pause on payroll tax enforcement, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Tuesday. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:59:16 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2342622?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2342622 A Florida judge on Tuesday allowed Maxim Crane Works to try to shift blame to a fellow contractor facing a lawsuit over a crane collapse in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed a worker and injured at least two other people. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:10:59 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351439?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351439 A D.C. federal judge slammed the brakes on the Office of Refugee Resettlement's new documentation requirements for potential sponsors to unaccompanied migrant children, saying it is "substantially likely" that the agency acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not sufficiently justifying the changes. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:39:39 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351127?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351127 Delaware's Court of Chancery showed new resistance to suits alleging corporate weaponizing of advance notice bylaws, and a new report highlighted the high fees that attorneys are cashing in on in Delaware courts compared to the federal court system. Several new suits were also filed concerning allegedly under- or overvalued sales and acquisitions being pushed through. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:00:59 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351167?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351167 A Washington federal judge narrowed the scope of a Navy veteran's medical malpractice case against the federal government on Monday, chiding her counsel for trying to change a years-old expert opinion on the eve of a long-awaited bench trial and "wasting" time on unnecessary questioning. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:43:56 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350991?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2350991 Investors suing Boeing over claims that the company harmed them by misrepresenting the 737 Max's safety have urged an Illinois federal judge to certify their proposed class, arguing that the case has common enough allegations and a sufficient damages model to warrant the judge's sign-off. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:58:24 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351081?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2351081 The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday articulated for the first time the burden of proof required in tort cases against public entities, ruling that a woman's slip-and-fall claims failed to eclipse Jefferson County's immunity under a state law.