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The defense wants to settle your case. They make an offer that I think is totally inappropriate. I give you my best recommendation not to settle the case at this time. You disagree. You want to take the settlement. What happens next?Defense has decided it's time to settle. They recognize that they bear responsibility for your injuries. They make an offer. The offer is insulting.
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Patient suffer complication following surgery. She claims the doctor did not tell her complication was a risk of the procedure. Doctor says of course he told her. He said/she said. What happens next?Many doctors will argue with me about what is considered sufficient and detailed information to tell patients about the risks of a particular procedure. They will always claim that there are
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The doctor committed medical malpractice and you suffered significant injury as a result of that. Despite that, you still trust him and continue to go back to him for treatment. Will that be a problem with your pending lawsuit?The defense attorney will likely ridicule the fact that here you are bringing a lawsuit against this well-respected doctor and that you still continue to see him for your ongoing problems.
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TRIAL TACTICS: Should a lawyer ask jury for a specific amount of money during opening arguments in an accident case, a medical malpractice case or a wrongful death case here in New York?There are some attorneys who believe that you should never ask a jury for a specific amount of money during opening arguments.
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Does your medical expert need to be formally qualified as an expert by some judicial authority in order to testify at trial?What this meant was that the attorney was permitted to ask the doctor cross examination type questions just on the basis of his qualifications.
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Trial tactics: Can you use hypothetical questions when questioning a medical expert or the defendant doctor in a medical malpractice case at trial in New York?Finally, his attorney became as frustrated as I was and yelled at his own client to simply answer my question. Naturally, doctor testified that he did not agree
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Man fractures his arm. Orthopedist at municipal hospital sets bone. When you learn what the doctor told the patient after the cast was removed will shock you.The private orthopedist took one look at the patient and asked him “Almighty God, who did this to you?”
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Lawyer communications: The client was shocked to learn that her attorney would call her every single month to find out how she was doing. Learn why.She had been in a car accident years before and had hired an attorney to represent her. He never communicated with her.
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Doctor Cuts Optic Nerve During Surgery Leaving Patient With Permanent BlindnessShe promised him she could to the eye surgery. He trusted her. During surgery she cut the optic nerve and didn't even know it till the next day. He couldn't see
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Gynecology Patient Has Surgery and Wakes Up Five Days Later Not Knowing WhyFinally, the surgeon correctly realized that the patient had an acute belly and needed to go back into surgery immediately. This time though, instead of tiny laparoscopic