What Legal Duty Do Practitioners Have to Warn Potential Victims of a Patient?
Two years after her husband was killed, Mr Z’s grandmother sued several of the hospital’s physicians.
All articles by Ann W. Latner, JD
Does Calling a Colleague Physician an “Idiot” Constitute Defamation?
After his clinical privileges at the hospital were revoked, Dr S filed a lawsuit against numerous individuals involved in the peer review process.
PA Court Changes Definition of “Cause of Death”
Numerous groups have together filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief.
Is Mistrial Warranted Where Defendant Renders Aid to Sick Juror?
The plaintiff made an emergency motion for a mistrial, arguing that the jury witnessing the defendant coming to the aid of one of their fellow jurors may have prejudiced the jury.
Federal Court Upholds Hospital’s Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy
A nurse and 116 other employees who did not want to be vaccinated instituted a lawsuit seeking to block the vaccine requirement and the job terminations.
Can a Patient Sue for Deceptive Business Practices Based on Prescribing?
The plaintiff in the case was a female patient who was being treated by a neurologist for multiple sclerosis.
Jury Finds Physician Negligent for Failing to Realize Drug Contraindication
In this month’s case, a physician’s medication choice cost him a great deal after his patient suffered permanent disability.
Do Successive Transfers of an Emergency Patient Amount to an EMTALA Violation?
This month we look at a case involving the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, commonly referred to as EMTALA. EMTALA was enacted by Congress in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985. The act was designed to prevent hospitals from ‘patient dumping’; transferring uninsured or Medicaid patients to…
Jury Penalizes Physician for Failing to Follow Up on Abnormal Urinalysis
This month’s case addresses the issues of when to act on abnormal test results.
Jury Awards Damages for Wrongful Prolongation of Life
Mr R filled out all the appropriate paperwork to signify his Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate requests and told the hospital staff that he wished to have the DNR/DNI entered on his electronic chart.
