Recent Cases

Clergy

• Failure to investigate sexual abuse claims

Day Care

• Negligent supervision of childcare worker

Dentistry

• Negligent administration of intravenous sedation
• Overfilling of root canal

Laboratory

• Florida impact rule does not bar suit claiming damages for wrongful disclosure of HIV test results

Law

• Constructive knowledge of alleged negligence should not be imputed to former wife
• Limitations period on client's negligence action tolled while lawyers continued to represent her

Medicine

• Failure to provide medical care to inmate
• Inadequate response to fetal distress by midwife
• Improper monitoring during heart surgery
• Negligent cesarean section
• Negligent performance of radiological procedure
• Inappropriate touching during workers' comp exams
• Improper treatment of brain tumor
• Mishandling of internal bleeding
• Failure to refer patient to cardiologist
• Late diagnosis of endometrial cancer

Nursing Home

• Failure to promptly resuscitate

Pharmacy

• Misfilled prescription
• Failure to warn of possible fatal drug interaction

Psychotherapy

• Improper training of psychiatric hospital employee

In this Issue

• News: NYSE is immune from investors' suits even where it joined stock management firms in fraud
• News: Organ recipients contract HIV, hepatitis C from high-risk donor; hospitals violated regulations
• Articles
• Updates
• Court Documents