/personal-injury-medical-malpractice?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:15:06 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382624?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382624 The Eleventh Circuit Friday upheld a Florida federal judge's ruling that freed CNN from Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz's $300 million defamation suit, saying Dershowitz presented no evidence that the news network acted with actual malice when covering his defense of President Donald Trump's 2020 impeachment trial. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:07:20 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382530?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382530 Jailhouse informants testified Friday that they were asked to lie on behalf of a woman accused of hatching a plot to murder a Florida State University law professor, saying gifts were promised for false information about the case.  Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:17:19 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382521?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382521 An actress who joined the ranks of others accusing actor Bill Cosby of drugging and raping them will drop her New Jersey federal lawsuit over an alleged assault in a Garden State casino and instead press those claims in a New York state lawsuit, according to a stipulation filed Friday. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:30:12 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382513?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382513 The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to step in and review a pretrial order in an insurance dispute in which Mattel Inc. and Fisher-Price Inc. seek coverage of settlements in suits over infant injuries, saying a review at this time would not terminate the case, and that there's no reason not to wait for it to be resolved at the trial court. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:57:49 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2381782?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2381782 Upcoming oral arguments in a key suit over arbitration terms for Uber passengers and a closely watched medical malpractice case at the Texas high court lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:16:40 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382146?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382146 A split Sixth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the dismissal of claims by two women alleging that a Michigan Christian college failed to properly protect or support them after they were victims of sexual assault on campus, finding that the school didn't have a duty to protect them and that its conduct wasn't "extreme or outrageous" enough to support their claims. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:13:25 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380820 Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm tells her story of being a first-generation lawyer and how others who begin their professional journeys without the benefit of playbooks handed down by relatives can turn this disadvantage into their greatest strength. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:34:29 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382147?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382147 Given climbing fatality rates from small-plane and helicopter crashes, and the evidentiary significance of cockpit voice recordings in litigation and investigations, the Federal Aviation Administration should mandate black boxes in smaller aircraft, despite likely judicial challenges over privacy and cost-benefit calculations, says Jeff Korek at Gersowitz Libo. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:38:40 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382007?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382007 A Florida attorney has asked a Connecticut trial court judge to pause an unjust-enrichment judgment requiring him to repay his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child over $30,000 after the court said she "unwisely" cosigned his law school loans, saying the state judgment must be stayed pending the resolution of a separate federal lawsuit between the onetime couple. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:56:14 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382469?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382469 In the wake of a $3 million judgment imposed against the city of Philadelphia in the case of a man who claimed he was shot by police and framed for rape, the city has asked a federal judge to sanction one of the plaintiff's lawyers for allegedly making false accusations that defense counsel were racist and suborned perjury. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:40:57 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2377073?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2377073 A New York appellate court’s recent ruling in Pillco v. 160 Dikeman clarifies the standard for evaluating accident-related entries from medical records, likely making it easier to admit these statements into evidence at trial, says Shawn Schatzle at Lewis Brisbois. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:50:34 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380407?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2380407 A high-powered national plaintiffs litigation firm and several local trial experts will face off soon in New Jersey's first civil suit to go to trial alleging sex abuse claims against the Catholic order behind the Delbarton School in Morristown. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:18:13 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382305?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382305 Tesla told a Florida federal judge Friday that a recent $329 million verdict finding its autopilot contributed to a fatal 2019 crash "flies in the face of basic Florida tort law, the due process clause, and common sense," and urged the court to set it aside. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:31:37 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382180?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382180 Saudi Arabia cannot escape claims that kingdom officials helped hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Thursday, finding that victims' families have adequately alleged their claims fall under an exception that waives the kingdom's sovereign immunity. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:55:51 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382113?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382113 A split Pennsylvania appellate panel on Thursday tossed two suits accusing a hospital of fraudulently inducing plaintiffs to settle a bad birth suit for $19 million by failing to disclose a key document, saying the settlement's release of claims bars the suits. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:03:55 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382070?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382070 The Georgia Court of Appeals said this week a couple can't sue the owner of a home where the couple's teenage daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted, ruling that state law shielded the owner from liability despite allegations he allowed underage drinking at the house. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:56:03 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382100 Kimberly-Clark agreed to pay up to $40 million to resolve federal prosecutors' criminal charge that the multinational consumer goods and personal care company sold adulterated surgical gowns and conducted fraudulent testing on the gowns to avoid having to submit a new premarket notification to the FDA. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:22:28 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382059?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382059 A medical malpractice attorney in Baltimore who was convicted in federal court in April of attempting to extort $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System has asked the Fourth Circuit to review his conviction, saying he was unfit to represent himself at trial. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:45:12 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2381110?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2381110 Roblox and Discord have been hit with yet another lawsuit alleging the online platforms aren't safe for children and that they allow predators to groom youth, with the latest complaint filed by a Michigan woman who claims she was only 11 years old when she was exploited by an adult predator. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:37:09 +0000 /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382088?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /personal-injury-medical-malpractice/articles/2382088 An Ohio man filed a lawsuit in Colorado federal court on Thursday alleging an alcohol monitoring ankle brace made by Alcohol Monitoring Systems Inc. led to him needing to go to the emergency room and ultimately missing a week of work.