Why do so many lawyers ask boring questions at the deposition, especially when the lawyer has the opportunity to question a doctor in a medical malpractice case?
Your lawyer offers your medical records into evidence, but before the jury sees them, your lawyer wants to redact certain information from your records. Will the judge allow this?
When you file a medical malpractice case, your doctor may have to testify on your behalf. If this is the case and these arrangements have been made, do you have to pay him?
Does your lawyer have to give daily transcripts of the trial to your medical expert witness? During trial why would a lawyer obtain the daily transcripts to give to the medical expert for the purpose of testifying in a medical malpractice case or accident case?
When you start to negotiate with the defense attorney, why is it that you no longer focus on who actually caused your injuries?
The judge tells the attorneys during the pretrial conference that the medical malpractice trial will start in two weeks, and one of the attorneys says he is going on vacation and requests the judge to delay the trial. Will the judge acknowledge and accept the fact that the attorney is going away on vacation, or will he make the attorney cancel his vacation.
Medical malpractice in New York can have a serious impact on the lives of affected patients. Medical malpractice occurs when a patient experiences suffering as a direct result of a physician’s incompetent care. The most frequent medical malpractice cases often claim that the doctor was neglecting injuries and illnesses, prescribing incorrect medication, misdiagnosing patients or failing to tell patients certain risks and other treatments that may have prevented further harm.
Do you know the fastest way to get a mistrial in the state of New York, in a medical malpractice case, in an accident case, or even a wrongful death case? Here are some of the common ways mistrials typically happen in personal injury cases. The Judge will be Instructing the Jury At the trial’s inception, the judge is going to give instructions to the jury, and they are direct and strongly worded instructions. These instructions say that jurors are not allowed to discuss this case during the time of the lawsuit, when they are there listening to the testimony. The only time jurors can
What happens when your witness does not show up when he is called to the stand? You might feel that such a situation is rare or unheard but it happens more often than you think, especially in personal injury cases. There can be many reasons for the witness not showing up. For instance, you could have subpoenaed a witness, and the witness might have ignored the subpoena. Maybe the witness has voluntarily agreed to come in and testify, but now he is stuck in traffic. There could be many different reasons for a witness not showing up, despite the fact that he is scheduled to
In a car accident case in New York that goes to trial, will the judge ever give the jury his opinion or belief, about who is entitled to compensation, and if so, how much? The Judge can never Express His Opinion The short answer is no, the judge will never inform the jury what he believes someone is entitled to. Why is that? It is because the judge has nothing to do with deciding who more likely right than wrong is. That is the entire purpose of what the jury is going to do. The jury is there to decide who is more likely right
