Risk-benefit analysis is a common defense in medical malpractice cases, with the defense often concentrating on the low likelihood of potential complications to justify a doctor’s decisions. During cross-examination of a seven-figure med mal trial, however, Cale Conley used humor and a hypothetical alligator in an elevator to upend a risk-benefit contention.
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Scoggins v. Smith
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Topics: Products Liability, Medical Malpractice, Florida, Georgia, California, Talc
CVN cameras covered an impressive slate of Georgia's finest lawyers last year. And CVN Georgia's 2019 defense attorney honoree earned the accolade by clearing his physician clients in a pair of high-profile med mal trials.
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Lockhart v. Bloom, et al., Izundu v. Choi, et al.
Defense attorneys in medical negligence cases must often overcome jurors’ natural tendency to engage in hindsight bias when they consider a doctor’s care. At trial over the communication and treatment surrounding a Florida woman’s ectopic pregnancy, Louis La Cava’s closing on staff expectations and an artful warning on hindsight bias helped clear the doctors that treated her.
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, Santana v. Exodus Women's Health, et al.
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Tampa, FL— Jurors Thursday evening cleared a trio of doctors at trial over an ectopic pregnancy that left a woman unable to naturally conceive. Santangelo-Santana v. Exodus Women’s Center, Inc., et al., 2015CA001646.
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, healthcare, Santana v. Exodus Women's Health, et al.
