Recent Cases

Banking

• Bank had duty to adequately secure its online banking system

Clergy

• Diocese settles with alleged victim of clergy sexual abuse
• Diocese settles allegations that one of its former bishops sexually abused minor seminarian

Dentistry

• Dentists fail to timely diagnose TMJ dislocations

Law

• Attorney may be liable for associate's failure to file client's bankruptcy petition

Medicine

• Infant suffers multiple seizures and brain damage only hours after his hospital discharge
• Failure to monitor patient's excessive urination leads to brain swelling, death
• Doctor's misuse of surgical instrument leads to patient's wrongful death
• Patient suffers permanent erectile dysfunction after receiving treatment at men's clinic
• Patient undergoes unnecessary brain surgery after tumor misdiagnosis
• New mother has hysterectomy after hospital staff fails to tell doctor about high white blood cell count
• Boy's testicle removed after doctor misses torsion diagnosis
• Patient undergoes extensive treatment after radiologist fails to timely diagnose lymphoma
• Woman's breast tumor triples in size before surgeon diagnoses cancer
• Surgeon's failure to timely treat ischemic bowel leads to gangrene, major surgery
• Trial judge's failure to disclose to jury pretrial settlement agreement was not improper
• Failure to timely deliver infant leads to profound cerebral palsy

Nursing Home

• Resident becomes dehydrated, dies during California heat wave

Psychotherapy

• Veteran takes fatal overdose after physicians fail to commit him for psychiatric treatment
• Treatment facility had no duty to control outpatient's conduct or to protect others
• Outpatient assaults clinic workers after stopping her medication
• Psychiatric patient dies after being attacked by fellow patient at facility

Rehabilitation Center

• Nurse's use of unsterile bandage leads to multiple infections, hip replacements

In this Issue

• Court Documents