Pennsylvania Association for Justice MEDICAL MALPRACTICE MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR – PATRICK J. DOYLE, JR., ESQ. By way of order dated August 25, 2022, the late Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Max Baer, leveled the playing field for victims of medical negligence. For two decades, victims of medical negligence were treated differently than…
By Nicholas Malfitano | Sep 21, 2021 SCRANTON – A woman who alleges she suffered arm and neurological damage during a tenodesis surgery last year has brought a professional liability action against the hospital system through which the procedure was conducted. Dontasia Britt of Kingston first filed suit in the Lackawanna Court of Common Pleas…
By Patrick Kernan – pkernan@timesleader.com | March 17th, 2018 WILKES-BARRE — An amended complaint filed this week suggests that a former Wilkes-Barre General Hospital doctor was not only negligent when he accidentally killed a patient, but was also improperly credentialed and even mentally unfit.
By Patrick Kernan – pkernan@timesleader.com | March 28th, 2018 WILKES-BARRE — A lawsuit recently filed in Luzerne County alleges that Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center is responsible for the 2017 death of a 16-day-old premature infant.
JAMES HALPIN / PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 21, 2016 WILKES-BARRE — Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center has reached an $800,000 settlement with the widow of a city man who died of a blood clot in the lung mere minutes after leaving the hospital.