Thompson, supra, which is cited in Marshak, is another legal malpractice case in which a plaintiff alleged that he would have received more money had the settle- ment been handled differently. The plaintiff was a minor child who developed a severe infection, resulting in meningitis, while in ...
the contingency lawyer is usually right about the merits of the underlying lawsuit. The same weaknesses that motivated the first lawyer to neglect the case — the inability to win the underlying case (now the “case within a case”) may also doom a subsequent legal malpractice case, despite...
When a trust purchased property from a developer, the purchase and sales agreement required it to develop the lot within two years or the developer would have the right to repurchase the lot. The trust failed to do so and eventually settled with the developer, seeking coverage from its title...
1. a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court. 2. make a federal case of or out of, Informal. to exaggerate the importance of. [1950–55] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House...
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X was exposed to the public in 1978 through a malpractice lawsuit brought by Carolyn Bates and two other women against the therapist. Our purpose here is to examine through Carolyn's experiences as a victimized patient the legal, moral, and ethical issues involved in the phenomenon of sexual ...
One of the most common forms of abuse within the family is non-consensual sex between spouses [2], a serious problem [3], which comes under the broader category of intimate partner violence (IPV) [4]. This form of coercion, perpetrated by one member of a couple linked by an intimate ...
They found that patients diagnosed with VAD were six times more likely than controls to recall having seen a chiropractor within 30 days of having the stroke. Smith et al. [6] did not find any association between CMT and stroke related to ICAD. This is consistent with other studies that ...
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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE | Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery D. Gatland, in Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2005 Outcomes On Florence Nightingale's wards, outcomes were measured as relieved, unrelieved, or dead. Nowadays any complaint is more defensible if surgeons can quote their own figures...