Medical malpractice claims are difficult to successfully litigate. In many situations, there is clear malpractice and clear damages, but that does not mean that a claim will ultimately be successful. The plaintiff is going to have to prove that according…
I have handled many medical malpractice cases in Louisiana and I can tell you that litigating these types of claims can be tricky. Medical negligence claims are governed by different rules than other personal injury claims and these rules vary…
This past weekend I was reading Kings of Tort: The True Story of Dickie Scruggs, Paul Minor and Two Decades of Political and Legal Manipulation in Mississippi, written by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson. The authors write that Scruggs strategically…
A little over a month ago, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously decided that a cap on jury awards for medical malpractice claims is unconstitutional. The Court stated in its opinion that Georgia’s cap of $350,000 violated a person’s right to…
In the State of Louisiana, the procedure for filing a medical malpractice claim is different from other states. In Louisiana, your personal injury attorney must first file your claim with a “medical review panel” which will decide whether malpractice has…