Tort law is the branch of law that deals with civil wrongs, including negligence, that come from sources other than breaches of contracts. Both businesses and individuals may be legally and ...

Fire and emergency medical services (EMS) agencies are no stranger to litigation of all types–from criminal to civil claims in local and federal courts. Daily, we see in the news that fire departments ...

A multiracial team stabilizes an injured young adult woman in the hospital emergency room. Violent encounters in the emergency department are becoming a serious issue. This month, Ann W. Latner, JD, ...

An employer recently faced a lawsuit arising from a rear-end collision that occurred in November 2020. A tractor-trailer of CKJ Transport, driven by an employee acting in the course and scope of his ...

The nurse mistakenly administered 120 milligrams of morphine to the wrong patient. This month, we look at a recent case out of Nevada where the court was asked to ...

Howard Colman was instructed by a substantial commercial property client to pursue a claim for damages for professional negligence against its ...

Negligence is a principal of civil tort law where a plaintiff alleges that a defendant breached a duty of care that caused harm. The most common type of negligence cases involves lawsuits against ...

Joshua Cargile, Michael Carrer, Michael Orlando Jr. In a recent opinion issued on June 27, the Supreme Court of Texas emphasized that the presence of negligence does not always lead to liability, and ...

The law in Pennsylvania has special provisions about when children can be held responsible for their negligence (carelessness resulting in harm to another or themselves). Under certain circumstances, ...

In Bangladesh, medical negligence is a day-to-day instance now from wrong diagnoses to surgical failures frequently harming or even killing patients. Public outrage has been prompted by several recent ...