In May 2016, Richard Schiller and Noel Halpin obtained a unanimous defense verdict on behalf of an orthopedic hand surgeon in Fayette Circuit Court. It was alleged that the surgeon was negligent in his performance of a tendon release surgery for a triggering left thumb, and in the follow-up care that was provided. The Plaintiff…
Read articleIn February 2016, Mike Maloney and Blake Edwards obtained Summary Judgment in United States District Court on behalf of a construction company that was sued following a construction site accident. The injured worker asserted negligence claims against a subcontractor who performed work on the construction project. The subcontractor, in turn, filed a third-party complaint against…
Read articleRichard Schiller and Terri Boroughs obtained a defense verdict on 11/3/2015 for a cardiothoracic surgeon accused of mismanaging post bypass surgery care that caused the patient to go blind. The Plaintiff argued that fluids, blood pressure, and hemoglobin values were allowed to drop to such levels that the patient’s optic nerve was unable to get…
Read articleRichard Schiller and Noel Halpin obtained a unanimous defense verdict for a National Retailer in a slip and fall case in Federal Court in Louisville on 10/1/2015. The Plaintiff claimed that the store was negligent for not noticing and cleaning up a brown sticky substance on the white tiled floor that caused the Plaintiff to…
Read articleRichard Schiller and Terri Boroughs obtained a defense verdict on 10/22/2015 in Jefferson Circuit Court for two radiologists who were accused of misinterpreting a CT scan as pneumonia when they should have read it as a blood clot in a young patient who died from a Pulmonary Embolus one week after the CT interpretation. The…
Read articleIn June 2015, Mike Maloney and Blake Edwards obtained Summary Judgment in Jefferson Circuit Court on behalf of a landowner that was sued for a leaky pipe that allegedly caused Plaintiff to slip and fall. The Court held that the landowner owed no duty to Plaintiff because the landowner was not in possession or control…
Read articleIn May 2015, Mike Maloney and Blake Edwards obtained Summary Judgment in Boyd Circuit Court on behalf of a construction company that was sued for property damage to a building that was located adjacent to the company’s construction site. Plaintiffs contended that the construction company’s activities on the construction site caused cracks in the exterior…
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