Sentences with phrase «malpractice actions based»

Just last week, BigLaw firm Weil Gotshal settled a malpractice action based on claims that the firm's attorneys had a conflict of interest between their client, a small boutique owner and its adversary, a large fashion house.

Successfully defended a surgical ophthalmologist in a medical malpractice action based on lack of informed consent.

Not exact matches

Award - winning investigative reporter Paul McKay accuses his profession of «malpractice» in a post published yesterday on National Observer, after watching the «missing - in - action media coverage» of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Houston - based Kinder Morgan's April 8 ultimatum to the governments of Canada, Alberta, and British Columbia.

Unless firms can change existing ethics rules to redefine what constitutes a conflict of interest (and I believe that we'll see these attempts, especially if firms move towards the model of a publicly - traded law firm), the number of conflicts based malpractice actions will proliferate.

Other cases where you will see attorneys almost exclusively work on a contingency basis include legal malpractice and class actions.

His experience in litigating commercial and tort disputes provides clients with the ability to understand a variety of underlying matters that are often the basis of legal malpractice actions.

Many special considerations and exceptions are based on the underlying cause of action, such as product liability, medical malpractice, or whatever else caused the death.

Be it workers compensation or personal injury and wrongful death occurring outside the workplace, such as: car accidents, dram shop actions (where a bar or restaurant serves a customer to the point of legal intoxication), medical malpractice, defective products, construction accidents, premises liability (e.g., slip and falls based on failure to provide a safe place to walk or play), or any other type of preventable injury or death.

In order to bring a medical malpractice action against a doctor based on misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, it is necessary to prove the following:

Topics discussed include: strategies for identifying the required elements for a potential malpractice action; the evaluation of the defenses that might bar recovery or defeat a claim; establishing or refuting the applicable standard of care with expert testimony; identifying when a conflict of interest results in divided loyalties, when such a conflict may form the basis of a claim, and the defenses to such conflict of interest claims; and distinguishing malpractice liability from a violation of professional ethical standards and if or when such standards are relevant to litigating a malpractice claim.

In the first comprehensive appellate decision interpreting Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1042.3 - 1042.6, Pennsylvania's tort reform measure intended to increase the threshold of merit for professional liability actions, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the ruling of the trial court and remanded for the entry of judgment as a matter of law in favor of John's client, a physician, based upon the plaintiff's failure to file a certificate of merit in support of his medical malpractice claim.

TORONTO SITTINGS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT * The Superior Court of Justice, Toronto Region has decided to continue the Toronto Jury sittings project on a permanent basis for all Motor vehicle / personal injury jury actions (excluding medical malpractice) that are 2 - 3 weeks (6 - 15 days) in length.