Recent Cases

Assisted Living

• Inadequate service plan
• Untimely emergency medical assistance

Banking

• Failure to disclose terms of loan

Clergy

• Sexual abuse of minors by priests

Dentistry

• Negligent tooth extraction

Foster Care

• Abuse and neglect of medically fragile children

Law

• Erroneous advice to nonclients on limitations issue can lead to liability for negligent misrepresentation
• Attorney owed no duty to prospective beneficiaries of client’s nonexecuted will

Medicine

• Failure to perform timely cesarean section
• Improper administration of Methylene Blue
• Failure to timely diagnose hemorrhaging arteriovenous malformation
• Laceration of newborn’s middle finger
• Negligent bariatric surgery
• Negligent administration of Dilaudid
• Statute requiring that medical negligence experts be practicing does not violate separation of powers
• Lack of informed consent for cervical epidural steroid injection procedure
• Use of improper prosthetic
• Negligent performance of cervical diskectomy
• Physician may be liable to mother for failing to terminate unwanted pregnancy
• Failure to provide timely emergency medical care
• Late diagnosis of breast cancer

Nursing Home

• Resident’s fall caused by understaffing at facility

Social Work

• Failure to protect child, follow up on complaints

In this Issue

• News: GAO investigation reveals unethical practices by some companies monitoring human studies
• News: Surrogacy agencies, financial trust company allegedly steal millions from intended parents
• Articles
• Court Documents