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A jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County has awarded $41 million to a 72-year-old lawyer whose cerebral artery stroke was brought on by medical mismanagement at the Peoria-based OSF HealthCare ...
In November 2019, Reid Collins filed a legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit in New York federal court on behalf of the LB Litigation Trust against law firm Brown Rudnick LLP for $300 million in damages. In July 2020, the Court denied Brown Rudnick's motion to dismiss the proceedings. [38]
The firm was the lead counsel for plaintiffs in the litigation arising from the E2 nightclub stampede. [5] The firm achieved a $16 million settlement from the City of Chicago for the killing by a police officer of Latanya Haggerty. [6]
States which do not impose caps on malpractice damages, such as Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Washington, have experienced reductions or stabilization in malpractice rates as well. [45] Various studies have shown that the Texas tort-reform law has had no effect on healthcare costs or the number of physicians practicing in the state. [44]
The federal law giving federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a), does not deprive state courts of the authority to hear a state law claim alleging legal malpractice in an underlying patent case. Henderson v. United States: 11-9307: 2013-02-20
Prisma Health has settled a lawsuit with a group of doctors who had accused the health network of “abysmal” conditions at the physicians’ former office.
Legal malpractice is the term for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by a lawyer during the provision of legal services that causes harm to a client. [ 1 ] Examples
In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]