By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A, LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On June 21, 2023, the Iowa Court of Appeals o… Read More

Reversing a decision from December, a panel of federal appellate court judges ruled Wednesday that a Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a man in a gym shower in 2018 is protected… Read More

In a June 2023 case before the Appellate Division, Second Department in New York, the defendant successfully argued for a reversal of his conviction of robbery in the third degree and crimin… Read More

Court Reverses Directed Verdict: In South Carolina medical malpractice actions, the plaintiff must use expert testimony to establish both the required standard of care and the defendant&rsqu… Read More

In a recent case before a New York appeals court, the State asked for a reconsideration of an appellate division’s unfavorable decision. Originally, the defendant was convicted of assa… Read More

Lawyers have a reputation of being ruthless and cutthroat, doing anything necessary to win a case. Even if they may not agree with everything their client has done ethically, everyone is ent… Read More

Proposition 22, which kept California’s independent contractor law AB5 from applying to app-based drivers like those from Uber and DoorDash, has been kept alive by a state appellate c… Read More

Summary Judgment Reversed In Qui Tam Lawsuit: In its opinion filed on August 9, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held th… Read More

On Tuesday, a federal appellate court granted the Sackler family complete civil immunity from current and future opioid claims. Consequently, the billionaire owners of the now-defunct Purdue… Read More

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Tuesday set aside a Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) order cancelling the licence of Brickwork Ratings India Ltd for repeated… Read More

Nineteen states have sought appellate court review in a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency waiver granted to California’s Advanced Clean Trucks Rule. The petition… Read More

The plaintiff’s decedent gave birth at defendant Richmond University Medical Center (“RUMC”) on January 10, 2015. The decedent’s private attending physician, defendan… Read More

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In tPA Stroke Case: In its Decision & Order dated August 17, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held: “the plaintiffs raised t… Read More

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On September 22, 2022, Florida's First District Court of Appeal reversed a final administrative… Read More

nationwide affinity insurance companyNationwide Affinity Insurance Company is an American insurance firm based in Columbus, Ohio. The company was established in 1924 and offers fire insuranc… Read More

The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. The Constitution prohibits law enforcement officers and other government agents from conducting an illegal search or seizure of persons or pr… Read More

Just three weeks ago, the monthly FreightWaves “State of Freight” webinar for February didn’t feature many bullish factors that our experts were seeing in the market. … Read More

Working with a lawyer is the best to do when you are facing legal challenges. A lawyer will handle your case and provide the representation that you need. However, when it comes to finding a… Read More

This post is supposed to be about a New Jersey Supreme Court decision on whether expert testimony for the admission of photographs of car or truck damage as probative to a plaintiff’s… Read More

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 27, 2021: “entry of a compulsory nonsuit is affirmed only if no lia… Read More

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court stated in its unpublished Memorandum and Order entered on September 1, 2021: “Representing himself, Cook pursued a range of claims impli… Read More

MARTINEZ — Six years after they were virtually condemned to live out their lives in prison for two murder convictions, three San Francisco men have been resentenced to much lower terms… Read More

The Constitution of India serves as the cornerstone around which the whole Indian legal system is built. It’s the basis for the legal force and efficacy of every other state statute an… Read More

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated January 13, 2021: “Viewing the evidence in Plaintiff’s… Read More

The District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated July 17, 2020, “While our review of the record has determined… Read More

The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (“Texas Appellate Court”), in its Memorandum Opinion filed on February 25, 2020, held: “we conditionally grant the peti… Read More