July 22, 2015
Even More Data Proves Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Filings Declining
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Back in June of 2013, we published an article detailing a 45-percent decline in the number of medical malpractice case filings statewide. Armed with a few more …
View MoreJuly 15, 2015
New York Implements Multistate “Uniform” Bar Exam
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One of the most daunting prospects a recent graduate of law school has to face is the dreaded bar examination. For decades, each state had its own version of th…
View MoreJuly 13, 2015
Da Vinci Surgical Robot Subject of FDA Probe
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Last summer we published a post about growing numbers of injuries sustained by patients during surgeries with the da Vinci surgical robot system, e.g. “tears an…
View MoreJuly 08, 2015
Judge Allows BP Clean-Up Workers to Pursue Jury Trials
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has not been in the news a great deal over the last four or so years, but that does not mean all o…
View MoreJune 24, 2015
Congressional Bill Threatens Federal Class Action Lawsuits
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This blog has long advocated that the class action suit is a core component of the civil justice system, one that provides a class of plaintiffs redress from co…
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June 23, 2015
A.C.’s Golden Nugget in legal war with $1.5 million winners
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Jason Nark Daily, Philadelphia Daily News Staff Reporter It was Friday the 13th, this past April, when 28 decks of playing cards left a manufacturing plant in K…
View MoreJune 17, 2015
Markups on Brand-Name Medication Strain Hospital Budgets
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A revelatory article in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal sheds light on one of the most important factors influencing prescription drug pricing: thei…
View MoreJune 10, 2015
Evidence-Based Medicine Activist Explains Our Expensive Health Care System
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WNYC’s Freakonomics Radio–named after a book series by journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt–recently ran a two-part series about the American h…
View MoreMay 27, 2015
Retired NHL Players File Class Action Suit Against League
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In 2013, more than four thousand former NFL players settled a class action suit against their former employer for $765 million, alleging that the league knew ab…
View MoreMay 20, 2015
To Make Amtrak Crash Victims Whole, Congress Must Raise Rail Liability Cap
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Joanne Doroshow, founder and executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School, is also a columnist for The Huffington Post. In …
View MoreMay 13, 2015
Doctors, Attorneys Allege Low Testosterone “Disease Mongering”
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When we first covered the alleged link between testosterone drug therapy and cardiovascular problems–particularly in older men–last June, there were about 50 su…
View MoreMay 11, 2015
16 Feldman Shepherd Attorneys Named as 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, Including 2 in the Top 10 of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP is proud to announce that 16 of its attorneys have been na…
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