The Medical Malpractice Attorneys at CMG Law are regular contributors to Trial News, the monthly publication of the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ). These articles support all medical malpractice attorneys in Washington and their clients with useful information about litigating such claims.
In addition, Tyler Goldberg-Hoss, Gene Moen, and Carl-Erich Kruse have each served as chair or co-chair of the WSAJ Medical Negligence Section. And in 2016, Tyler served as editor of the first Medical Negligence Deskbook, published in 2016.
The costs of litigation and taking a case to trial are so great there is a new emphasis on alternative dispute resolution in personal injury cases. Although arbitrations are sometimes substituted for a jury trial, mediation is the preferred and more common means of resolving a claim without the need for a trial.
This paper outlines legal defenses based on the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, how the act applies to medical negligence claims, and how court rulings have gradually eroded those defenses.
In determining which defendants to name in a medical negligence case, the least number of defendants that still allow the claimant to present a strong case is preferred.
Reflex sympathy dystrophy, a painful and often disabling condition arising from disruption of the sympathetic nervous system, is often difficult to diagnose and treat. The term currently used is “complex regional pain syndrome.”
Mediation — a voluntary settlement meeting with an independent mediator – is an alternative in medical negligence cases.
This paper discusses the various ways “discovery” materials, such as interrogatory answers or depositions transcripts, may be used as either as direct evidence or rebuttal evidence during trials.