Can an attorney ask an expert witness to show his notes during trial?
Have You Brought Your Notes Along?
Avoiding medical errors before they happen
Approximately 200,000 deaths are due to preventable medical errors in New York and around the country every year. A 2010 study found that even if doctors or nurses witnessed mistakes by a medical provider, fewer than 10 percent spoke up. This may be a significant problem if hospitals are seeking to lower the risk to patients.
How to Prove Liability in a Wrongful Death Case
What is Liability? To prove liability in a wrongful death case means to show to the jury who is responsible for the person’s untimely and unnatural death. Since the person is already deceased, it can be a challenging task to show what caused the premature death and that that death would not have occurred in […]
How Long can the Jury Deliberate in a Personal Injury Case
What happens in a Personal Injury Case? When you have filed a personal injury case, which could be a medical malpractice case, accident case, or even a wrongful death case, your case will eventually go to trial when settlement negotiations have failed. Your trial can take several days or even months depending on the complexity […]
Do You Dread Jury Duty for Personal Injury Cases
Why do People Dread Jury Duty? You have jury duty scheduled but you are dreading to go and sit there for weeks and weeks, deliberating who is right and who is wrong in a medical malpractice case, in an accident case, or even a wrongful death case. You simply do not want to attend, and […]
What is Pecuniary Loss in a Wrongful Death Case
Joan Rivers, a popular comedian, recently died after being taken off life support and her family members filed a wrongful death lawsuit. One of the claims made in the lawsuit was pecuniary loss, which is important to understand. Joan’s death has unfortunately raised a great deal of awareness since her daughter brought a wrongful death […]
Is it Required to Put the Settlement on the Record
In a personal injury case that is settled during the course of a pretrial conference, is it required to put the settlement on the record, in open court. Do You need to Put Settlement on the Record? To answer if it is required, no it is not required. However, is it considered a best practice […]
What is an Expert Witness Reply in a Medical Malpractice Case
What is an Expert Witness Reply?
What does a Lawyer Look for in a Potential Medical Malpractice Case
If you feel that you have suffered harms and losses due to the negligence of a doctor or a hospital staff, you should consider claiming damages by filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, when you approach an attorney, he will be looking at your case from his own viewpoint to decide whether he should accept it. Hence, these are the four important aspects a lawyer will be looking at, when a client approaches him with a potential medical malpractice case.
Stage I vs. Stage IIIB Breast Cancer in a Medical Malpractice Case
By the time a woman was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was Stage IIIB. Had she been correctly diagnosed and treated a year earlier, she may not have developed this advanced stage of cancer. Can this be a basis for a medical malpractice case?