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Swartz Campbell Partners Achieve Defense Jury Verdict for Doctors
/ 01.May, 2015Swartz Campbell partners, Jeffrey McCarron and Josh Byrne, successfully defended their physician clients in a medical malpractice death case. Following trial, the Philadelphia jury found . . .
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Summary Judgment in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Action Reversed
/ 12.Jun, 2014In the case of Sokolsky v. Eidelman, 2014 PA Super 117, Janice Sokolsky asserted attorney Edward Eidelman did not pursue a medical malpractice action on her . . .
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New Pennsylvania Law Limits Admissibility of Apologies by Doctors
/ 13.Nov, 2013The Pennsylvania legislature unanimously voted to approve, and Governor Tom Corbett signed into law, an act designed to allow medical professionals to apologize to patients . . .
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A blow to pretreatment ADR agreements signed by parents
/ 21.Aug, 2012Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Allan Tereshko has rejected a hospital’s argument that a plaintiff gave up her right to a jury trial due . . .
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Healthcare Reforms Going Into Effect
/ 02.Aug, 2012Under the affordable care act, a number of notable healthcare reforms went into effect yesterday. Notably, a number of women’s preventative services are now required . . .
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Hospitals Without Insurance
/ 17.Jul, 2012The New York Times has published an interesting article on troubled hospitals in New York which are not maintaining medical malpractice insurance. The article (and . . .
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Revisit the “Error in Judgment” Defense
/ 30.May, 2012Last year, in Passarelo v. Grumbine, a three judge panel of the Superior Court retroactively applied the 2009 ruling in Pringle v. Rapaport, which banned the . . .
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Good News on Medical Malpractice Actions
/ 09.Jun, 2011The annual report on medical malpractice filings from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts shows that the number of cases filed statewide has reduced for . . .
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