News & Blogs

In my December 10 posting, I discussed how physicians are troubled by the FDA’s lax methodology in conducting clinical trial of drugs and medical devices. In today’s Torts Prof Blog , Bill Childs points out... Read More

A long-established staple of the tort reform movement has been a push for screening panels that evaluate medical malpractice claims before trial–the goals being to dispose of the case without... Read More

In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees   (although his state’s current fee allows up to  50% ). Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according... Read More

New York County Supreme Court Justice Carol R. Edmead has issued a decision in the case of the spin class goofball who wouldn’t shut up when asked and got his just... Read More

This would be today’s entry in the Dept. of Cases We’re Unlikely to Hear About Again.  Courtesy of today’s Gothamist , we learn that a case involving an escaped circus tiger whose presence... Read More

Should part of the informed consent discussion include your physician’s telling you that you would get better care elsewhere?  That is the subject of a fascinating article in today’s NY Times .  ... Read More

There is a new development in the story of NYC’s Pothole Map, and its continued viability (see my December 19th posting regarding the NY Court of Appeals’ problems with the map). According... Read More

Tomorrow morning, January 6, 2009, at 8:00 a.m. at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, there will be a breakfast program on LITIGATING IN THE MEDICAL... Read More