Recent Cases

Assisted Living

• Failure to check on resident

Foster Care

• Failure to investigate abuse

Insurance

• Failure to supervise counsel
• New Jersey precludes common law claims against workers’ comp carriers for bad faith failure to pay medical expenses

Law

• Unauthorized consent order
• Failure to timely serve correct tortfeasor

Medicine

• Failure to timely refer patient to urologist
• Missouri’s cap on noneconomic damages violates right to trial by jury
• Mishandling of shoulder dystocia
• Negligent performance of VBAC
• Mismanagement of patient’s airway
• Failure to conduct necessary fetal monitoring
• Failure to meet inmate’s medical needs
• Negligent insertion of IV line
• Failure to timely diagnose cancer
• Negligent postoperative monitoring of child with severe sleep apnea
• Negligent insertion of catheter
• Negligent administration of blood thinner
• Unnecessary cerebral angiogram
• Failure to perform timely cesarean section

Mental Health

• Private psychiatrist working at county prison was not entitled to qualified immunity

Nursing Home

• Failure to obtain prompt medical care for nursing home resident after fall
• Improper wound care
• Failure to prevent bedsores