Reports from Our Medical & Medication Error Lawyers

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Sunday, November 15, 2015. Medical malpractice claims frequently raise complex questions of fact as well as questions about the standard of duty that the defendant medical professional may have failed to live up to in causing harm to the patient. Explaining these complicated issues to the jury in the best possible light to the plaintiff’s side is something that plaintiffs and their attorneys will often enlist the aid of one or more expert witnesses to perform. What should happen, though, if for some reason the expert witness does not undertake the degree of preparation needed to testify effectively as an expert?......

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Sunday, November 8, 2015. A surface reading of the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act indicates that before a medical malpractice plaintiff can take the matter to court he or she should submit the matter to a medical review panel for consideration. Cases have taken place, however, in which the plaintiff did not rigidly follow this process, leading to the question of whether the failure to strictly adhere to the medical review panel requirement is fatal to a medical malpractice cause of action. According to a decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, such a failure will not necessarily preclude......