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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Medical Care, but Complicating Medical Claims

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, and the healthcare industry is no exception. As a result, health care entities are testing and implementing AI programs in an effort to improve patient care....more

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Medical Malpractice Suit Dismissed for Inadequate Affidavit of Merit in Wrongful Death Following Kidney Biopsy

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Sovelove v. Shirazi, A-1540-23, Jun. 17, 2025 - The decedent had undergone an elective kidney biopsy and suffered a large retroperitoneal bleed, resulting in her death. The plaintiff, individually and as the estate executor,...more

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Medical Negligence And Its Liabilities Under UAE Law

Medical practitioners form one of the most important professions in the world. The significance of this profession results in a high number of responsibilities on individuals in the medical field. The UAE Government has...more

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Proposed Expert’s Qualification to Proffer Standard of Care Opinions Must Be Evaluated Under the Entirety of Section 512 of the...

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Key Points: Standard of Care: Patient assessment and discussion of procedures to be performed to evaluate the patient prior to surgery fall under the purview of the standard of care, not informed consent....more

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Ohio Supreme Court Orders In Camera Review in Peer Review Privilege Dispute

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Stull v. Summa Health System, 177 Ohio St.3d 543, --- N.E.3d ---, 2024-Ohio-5718 - In a discovery dispute over the applicability of peer review privilege, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the trial court should conduct an in...more

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Inside the Healthcare Industry: The Critical Role of Medical Coding, Billing & Nurse Review

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In what is already a highly regulated industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to navigate the growing volume, complexity and enforcement of laws, regulations and guidance that surround...more

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Legal Roundup – Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Court Affirms that Experts and Treating Physicians Must Be in Same Specialty - Kunkel v. Abington Memorial Hospital, 2024 PA Super 298 (Pa. Super. Ct. Dec. 13, 2024) - The Superior Court of Pennsylvania...more

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Informed Consent Requires an Informed Patient

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Today’s medical systems move faster, operate at greater scale, and handle a wider volume and variety of ailments than ever before. Doctors have access to vast repositories of medical information and data, all of which are...more

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Supreme Court of Ohio Decides on a Peer-Review Privilege Issue in Stull v. Summa

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On December 10, 2024, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued its decision in Stull v. Summa, a medical negligence case in which the defendants argued that Ohio’s statutory peer-review privilege protected from discovery the file the...more

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Hey Doc, Be Careful on TikTok - Legal Pitfalls of Healthcare Providers in the Social Media Age

Imagine you are scrolling on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or one of the multitude of other social media platforms that almost every one of us have on our devices, and you come across a video of a physician discussing medical...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

FAQs: What You Need to Know About Filing a Medical Malpractice Claim in Florida

The risk of suffering unnecessary complications due to medical malpractice is a concern for patients and families across Florida. While all healthcare providers have a duty to ensure that they provide a professional standard...more

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SCOTUS Lets National Practitioner Data Bank Safeguards Stand

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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case challenging the sufficiency of due process protections in the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), effectively...more

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Med-Staff Newsletter - October 2023 | VOL 12

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Do the Right Thing — Reporting Voluntary Actions Taken While “Under Investigation” to the NPDB - Many health care entities struggle with the dilemma of whether and when to make reports to the National Practitioner Data...more

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Understanding Telehealth and the Risks of Medical Malpractice

Telehealth practices can be tremendously helpful for patients who live in remote areas far from doctors. Telehealth can also protect healthcare providers and patients from exposure to infectious diseases. But telehealth...more

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CT Supreme Court Issues Important Decision Regarding Med Mal Opinion Letters

Health care providers should take note of a recent decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court that may make it easier for individuals to bring medical malpractice actions. In Carpenter v. Daar, 346 Conn. 80 (2023), the court...more

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California’s New Apology Law and Its Impact on Peer Review Hearings

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Parties in peer review hearings can present a wide range of relevant evidence, regardless of its admissibility in a court of law.  But California has passed a new “apology law” that modifies that standard, erecting a...more

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Updates to Medical Malpractice Legal Procedures in North Carolina

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On June 18, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 255 into law.  The law contains two significant changes to the legal procedures in medical malpractice actions in North Carolina....more

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With malpractice claims constrained, injured Florida kids and families struggle

When doctors, hospitals, and insurers bellyache about malpractice claims with little evidence on their prevalence or outcomes, patients and politicians should push back: And they can cite the nightmares people in grievous...more

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Mizzou pays $16.2 million to 22 children who had experimental knee surgery by a veterinarian

It’s long been routine, if often controversial, for operating rooms to welcome medical device sales people and surgical trainees to watch the work of surgeons and nurses. But now the University of Missouri health system may...more

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Vet, with aid from Congress, forces VA to increase disclosures in malpractice cases

Congress has given U.S. service personnel slightly improved help if they find they have been harmed while receiving military medical care and want to pursue justice via legal actions....more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

When end-of-life wishes get ignored, courts see another kind of malpractice

Many Americans took a good step for themselves and their loved ones after getting shocked by learning about treatments, like prolonged machine ventilation, that coronavirus patients may undergo. Not for me, the healthy may...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Types of Doctors for Medical Malpractice Claims

The American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys (ABPLA) defines “medical malpractice” as when a hospital, doctor, or other health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, causes an injury to a patient....more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

UC offers $73-million settlement in class-action suit over abusive gynecologist

The University of California has offered to pay $73 million to settle with 5,000 women their class-action lawsuit asserting a staff gynecologist sexually abused them during medical procedures. This is yet another big case...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Gynecologist guilty on U.S. charges, but questions linger about his practices

A federal criminal case concluded with felony convictions for a Virginia gynecologist. But the questions are only now beginning as to how a doctor could have caused so many women so much harm for so long without other...more

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A $229-million Baltimore malpractice case? It’s worth digging into this news

Headlines can command attention while not always fully informing, as might be the case with these eye-catching story titles, one fresh, the others a few years back...more

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