Posts tagged wrongful

• What’s in a name? Women’s Medical Society - Abortion Clinic in Philadelphia, PA

  Bernard Smalley | January 31, 2011 8:03 AM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Pity the poor women who were mistakenly led to believe that the Women’s Medical Society was a caring and safe place. The West Philadelphia venue was anything but. It was more like a...

• Civil Lawsuits are the Only Option for Victims of Dr. Kermit Gosnell

  Michael Monheit | January 22, 2011 10:55 AM | 2 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A society needs to protect its weakest individuals. That especially includes the unborn. And when the government fails to protect us from harm, we must protect ourselves. This is one of the lessons...

• Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Dr. Gosnell’s Shop of Horrors

  Miriam Barish | January 20, 2011 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Yesterday authorities charged Dr. Gosnell a local Philadelphia primary care physician with murder of a 41 year old woman, Karnamaya Mongar who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an...

• Anapol Schwartz Attorneys File Wrongful Death Suit Against University City Doctor Kermit Gosnell

  Bernard Smalley | January 19, 2011 9:58 AM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Contact: Amy Leshko 609-682-4143 aleshko@startoplin.com Jen Wasilisin 609-682-4153 jwasilisin@startoplin.com PHILADELPHIA – Jan. 19, 2011 – Anapol Schwartz...

• No Personal Jurisdiction Over Across-the-Border Bar That Overserves Patron Killing Arizona Pedestrian

  Geoff Trachtenberg | February 29, 2008 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Interesting and disappointing personal jurisdiction memo opinion from Division One, Womack v. KC Arena. In short, KC operates a bar on the Nevada side of the Arizona-Nevada border, over served a patron who then drove across the state line and killed an Arizona pedestrian. Moreover, plaintiffs asserted that KC employees knew the patron lived in Bullhead City and that he would return there after...

• Business Owners Now Owe Nondelegable Duties to Keep Premises Reasonably Safe

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 26, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Wrongful Death
  

  "Attention Safeway shoppers, business owners now owe nondelegable duties to their invitees to keep their premises reasonably safe."Steven H. Simon sued Safeway after he was injured during a store altercation with a security guard who "physically and sexually" assaulted him. The guard was employed by a third-party company who had contracted with Safeway. He mistakenly concluded that Mr. Simon...

• Assignments vs. Liens In the Personal Injury Context

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 09, 2007 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A large number of people, attorneys included, don't know the difference between "assignments" and "liens."Why does it matter, you ask? For a number of reasons that will be more obvious when the difference is understood.An assignment is the easier of the two to understand since, as the name implies, it is an transfer of all or some rights or property to a third-party. Although an assignor...

• Supreme Scrooge: Arizona's Supreme Court Delivers a Serious Blow to Products Liability

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 09, 2007 6:32 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Worried about lead in your toys this Christmas? You now have something else to worry about - if those toys harm or kill your children, your rights and remedies in the state of Arizona are under serious attack.This week, in State Farm Ins. Co. v. Premier Mfg. Sys. Inc., the Arizona Supreme Court held that, despite centuries-old common law "strict liability" in product liability cases, Arizona's...

• Mother is Charged With Homicide After Son Dies in Car

  Jenny Albano | October 31, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A mother of a 17 year-old month boy went in to work at Hooters Tuesday morning and when she returned to her car when her shift was over she realized she had forgotten her son was still in the vehicle. Unfortunately the toddler died because of the temperatures in the car.Ashly Duchene was booked with a felony count of negligent homicide. She normally dropped her son off at daycare before work,...

• Failure to Plead Sufficient Facts - The New Legal Malpractice?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | October 21, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There's a new case out this week from Division Two, Cullen v. Koty-Leavitt Insurance, which deals with the reasonable expectations doctrine in the UIM setting. The case is not particularly fascinating from a substantive perspective, but it raises questions about potential legal malpractice exposure.In sum, Cullen filed a UIM claim based upon the fact that his family was given the right to...