Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

November 21, 2024 - While medical malpractice cases typically require proof of a breach of care on the part of medical providers, the circumstances of certain cases may allow for a loosened burden of ...

When an unexplained injury occurs in an area remote from the operative field while a patient is anesthetized, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur may support an inference and will be considered in ...

Plaintiff alleged that due to the negligence of a surgeon, anesthesiologists, and nurse anesthetists, she sustained injury to her bilateral median nerves during surgery. Plaintiff pled multiple ...

In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner and Gail S. Kelner write that in considerations over applying the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur in negligence cases, exclusive control has generally ...

Every law student knows res ipsa loquitur, Latin for “the thing speaks for itself,” first applied in an 1863 lawsuit in which a barrel fell from a window and hit a passerby. The court ruled in the ...

What was he? He was a lot of things: a Yale Phi Beta Kappa, a Columbia L.L.B., a first lieutenant in World War I’s A.E.F., now an assistant district attorney of the State of New York—the information ...

Herbert Hoover last week made public comment on the shellacking Franklin Roosevelt took from the angry 76th Congress. It reminded Mr. Hoover of his own predicament in 1930-32 when his Republicans lost ...