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Venue back on the menu? Proposed rule change could shift the landscape of medical malpractice in the Commonwealth

Health Law Gurus

Change may be coming soon to Pennsylvania’s medical malpractice venue rule (Rule 1006(a.1))—a 1))—a change that could send medical malpractice filings in Philadelphia skyrocketing. Notably, the report did not draw any conclusions as to what impacts eliminating the medical malpractice venue rule may have.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. procedure that existed at the time of [plaintiff’s] injury”; malpractice was “intervening cause”) (applying Kansas law); Eck v. Shire Richwood, Inc. ,

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

American Wood Preservers Institute , 2002 WL 34447541, at *1 (S.D. July 31, 2002); Johnson v. Right now, the schedule for the meeting has debate on the “Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice & Miscellaneous Provisions” – which includes the medical monitoring proposal – set for Monday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m.