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Venue back on the menu? Proposed rule change could shift the landscape of medical malpractice in the Commonwealth

Health Law Gurus

Change may be coming soon to Pennsylvania’s medical malpractice venue rule (Rule 1006(a.1))—a 1))—a change that could send medical malpractice filings in Philadelphia skyrocketing. Notably, the report did not draw any conclusions as to what impacts eliminating the medical malpractice venue rule may have.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation

Drug & Device Law

435, 436 (2002). Even worse is standing based on the “considerable mental and emotional stress on emergency-room doctors,” purported injury from “divert[ing] time and resources away from their ordinary practice to treat [adverse reaction] patients, and even the possibility of increased malpractice insurance costs. Gore ,” 35 Ind.

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

American Wood Preservers Institute , 2002 WL 34447541, at *1 (S.D. July 31, 2002); Johnson v. Plaquemines Parish Government , 982 So.2d City of Chicago , 181 N.E.3d 3d 679, 688-89 (Ill. Indiana : Pisciotta v. Old National Bancorp , 499 F.3d 3d 629, 639 & n.10 10 (7th Cir. 2007); Hunt v. Iowa : Pickrell v. 1515, 1523 (D.