Plaintiffs in wrongful death case against a paramedic and EMT were required to have a medical expert to satisfy causation.
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Plaintiffs in wrongful death case against a paramedic and EMT were required to have a medical expert to satisfy causation.
Continue reading ›Evidence against paramedic and EMT was insufficient to establish willful conduct or gross negligence, resulting in paramedic immunity.
Continue reading ›Proximate cause in wrongful death does not require the diagnosis delay to cause the chance of survival to go from above 50% to below 50%.
Continue reading ›If no legal obligation, there must be proof of intention by statement or action by the deceased to continue providing household services.
Continue reading ›Infection introduced during surgery was last element of medical malpractice that arose in Virginia for choice of law on a damage cap.
Continue reading ›Maryland courts again decline to recognize the loss of chance doctrine in wrongful death claims in medical malpractice cases.
Continue reading ›Intervening and superseding cause instruction applied to doctor’s breach by ordering from a pharmacy that later delivered contaminated drug.
Continue reading ›For orthopedic surgeon apparent agency, EMTs meet the reliance element by transporting a critically injured patient to a trauma hospital.
Continue reading ›An inference of negligence is permissible when there is expert testimony that a permanent lingual nerve injury only occurs from negligence.
Continue reading ›The two ways to challenge quantum meruit arbitration are a Petition to Stay Arbitration and Petition to Vacate Arbitration Award.
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