In September 2019, Justin Schaefer and Chapin Elizabeth Scheumann successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice of a Plaintiff’s appeal of an award of summary judgment, which Mr. Schaefer and Mrs. Scheumann had obtained on behalf of a private utility company sued in Clark County (IN) Circuit Court for negligence arising out a trip and fall…
Read articleThe Legal Food Frenzy helped support another area of need in the Louisville community – serving those who are food-insecure. Roughly one out of every six adults and one out of every five children in Kentucky lack enough food for a healthy, active lifestyle. Feeding Kentucky’s food banks provide food and quality services to those…
Read articleBarnes Maloney PLLC was one of 10 Louisville-area law firms to throw gutter balls for a brighter future for our city’s youth in the Legal Bowl for Kids’ Sake event — the largest charitable campaign held yearly for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana organization. This year, the Legal Bowl alone raised over $14,000.00….
Read articleIn December 2018, Richard Schiller, Terri Boroughs, and Chapin Elizabeth Scheumann successfully defended an appeal from a defense verdict that Mr. Schiller obtained in Grayson Circuit Court on behalf of a general surgeon. At trial, the patient claimed the physician had improperly removed a PEG tube placed following a procedure for her severe acid reflux,…
Read articleCONGRATULATIONS TO MRS. TERRI BOROUGHS Please join us in congratulating our Partner, Mrs. Terri Boroughs, for being named by the Kentucky Trial Court Review as Kentucky’s Defense Lawyer of the year for 2017. Terri specializes in complex medical malpractice defense cases for physicians and hospitals. She has handled dozens of cases from investigation through verdict. …
Read articleTerri Boroughs and Richard Schiller successfully defended a general surgeon in a jury trial in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The allegations included a lack of informed consent and the performance of an alleged unnecessary laparoscopic colectomy. The defense maintained that the informed consent was appropriate and that the surgery was necessary due to the findings at…
Read articleUPDATE: In September 2016, the Kentucky Court of Appeals held that PIP insurers cannot deny such benefits based solely on independent medical reviews. In Houchens v. GEICO (2014-CA-002017), the Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment in favor of GEICO, which had used “paper reviews” from retained physicians to terminate no-fault benefits for two claimants. It reasoned that Kentucky…
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