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IN THE NEWS: RICHARD HAILEY SERVES AS CO-COUNSEL IN TRAGIC TEXAS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASE
In July of 2017, 60-year old MM had undergone a “practice” surgical procedure to see whether an implant called a spinal cord stimulator (a “paddle” connected to threaded wires with electrodes) could be inserted into her spine to relieve her ongoing back pain. When MM reported a significant degree of pain relief from the… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: PRISONER VS. PRISON – A TALE OF TWO MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE LAWSUITS
Often, when people hear about a medical malpractice lawsuit, the picture that comes into their mind is of a case brought by a patient (or sometimes by the survivors of a patient) against a doctor. Typically the doctor is accused of having made a mistake (wrong diagnosis, wrong treatment, wrong medicine), thereby causing harm… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: HEART RHYTHM DRUG POISONED PATIENT’S LUNGS
Often, at Ramey & Hailey Law, by the time we are speaking with a patient – or with that patient’s survivors – about personal injury as a result of medical malpractice, many months or even years have passed since the unfortunate set of events that caused them so much sorrow. Typically, those clients had… Read More »
IN TH NEWS: HIGH SCHOOL STAFF FAILED TO PROTECT STUDENT
Over the summer, Kayla Dillinger claims, she was raped by a classmate from Lutheran High. Now she and her father have filed a Title IX personal injury lawsuit against the school for failing to protect her from sexual assault. (Federal law Title IX protects students of any school that receives government funding.) Claims brought… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operations rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: NEGLIGENCE UNMASKED AT PENNSYVANIA TRIAL
In the state’s first verdict in favor of a civil trial plaintiff since the start of the pandemic (with all trial participants wearing masks except when testifying behind a plexiglass), a Pennsylvania jury has awarded $10.8 million to the father of a young man who suffered permanent brain injury as a result of a … Read More »
IN THE NEWS: $4.9M AUTO ACCIDENT SETTLEMENT TEACHES MANY LESSONS
The mother of a young man killed in an auto accident in Brush Creek Township, Pennsylvania was just awarded a $4.9 million settlement. The accident illustrates several important points about auto accident personal injury which we believe are important for our Ramey & Hailey blog readers to understand…. Of the 5,000,000 (yes, millions!) car… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: TRUCK DRIVER SENTENCED, ANOTHER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASHES
It’s been only one short year since the motor vehicle crash, but the devastation for one Indianapolis family is forever. Finally, just two weeks ago, a judge imposed a nine year jail sentence on the Missouri truck driver who caused an accident, killing an Indianapolis mother and her two baby daughters. Just months before… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED QUALIFIED IMMUNITY?
“There’s no economic incentive for policy to change,”explain Cecil Bohanon and Nick Curott in a recent issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal, referring to qualified immunity, that policy that shields police officers from legal consequences of their actions. Eliminating qualified immunity would go a long way towards addressing the policy of police brutality, the… Read More »
IN THE NEWS: RULING REVERSE ON POLICE SHOOTING – NEW NEWS, OLD STORY?
In light of recent events, with others undoubtedly in store, we thought the 2018 appeals court reversal of a judge’s 2013 ruling in a West Virginia police shooting case would be of special interest to our Ramey & Hailey NewsBlog readers…. Seven years ago, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, five police officers shot and killed… Read More »
