Attorneys sued by a Troy, Kansas company that lost a jury verdict after a car crash have been resurrected as defendants on appeal.

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Plaintiffs appealed from the dismissal of their action against attorney defendants for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Where plaintiffs failed to identify a federal question and where there was a lack of complete diversity between the parties, the district court properly ...

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Defendants appealed the district court’s denial of their motion to compel arbitration. An individual unknown to plaintiff called plaintiff and asserted that a transvaginal mesh plaintiff had implanted was defective and that she could arrange for plaintiff to have the ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether to revive a lawsuit against Husch Blackwell on claims that it gave a former executive bad advice on his stock options.

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A Greene County jury has cleared a trio of emergency medicine workers of delaying proper treatment and causing a patient’s right-eye blindness.

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President's health care speech proposes state-level changes

Curbing medical malpractice lawsuits is a leading goal of business groups and Republicans, and President Barack Obama on Wednesday night during a joint session of Congress said he is pursuing a pilot project designed to prevent doctors from practicing "defensive medicine" by ordering unnecessary tests for fear of being sued.

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Chances are you visit your doctor every year for a checkup to head off any possible problems and risks to your health. This is an important part of your overall health and is a very transferrable process to your law ...

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Call your malpractice carrier. You’re being sued by the wife and children of a permanent resident who was just deported back to some hell-hole of a country. You told him the deferred-prosecution deal you worked out for him would not ...

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When Laura White sued her doctor for a birthing malpractice incident that left her child with severe mental retardation and physical handicaps, her attorney was faced with a challenge. Jeffrey Kornblau, a partner at Kornblau and Kornblau in Scranton, Pa., ...

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Coin Acceptors Inc., a St. Louis-based company ordered to pay nearly $27 million in a patent infringement case, filed a legal malpractice lawsuit against two St. Louis law firms and the two lawyers who handled the case. The defendants are ...

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