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On December 7, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, altered the established law of hospital ostensible agency liability, in Markel v William Beaumont Hospital. Rather than specifically decide whether the Markel case facts legally lacked the proofs for...
It’s that time of year when the State of Michigan Department of Treasury releases the adjusted limitations of non-economic damages for medical malpractice claims. The Michigan legislature limited the amount recoverable for non-economic damages in medical malpractice...
Ottenwess Law attorney David Ottenwess represents two radiologists in a medical malpractice case. During the course of discovery, plaintiff named, and subsequently produced a “familiar” urologist as an expert to testify in the case. While urology was not a specialty...
Ottenwess Law attorney David Ottenwess convinced Plaintiff’s counsel to dismiss their client from a medical malpractice case four days before trial. First, after the deposition of Plaintiff’s experts, motions to dismiss several named physician defendants were filed....
Plaintiffs are seeking “nuclear” verdicts and have hired the same over-used damage experts to come up with exaggerated life care plans and economic reports, which are not supported by the medical records, opinions of treating physicians, or even the deposition...
Brief Overview In July 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court released its opinion in Meyers v Rieck, ___ Mich ___(2022). The Court overruled previous case law and held that in a malpractice case, a Defendant’s internal protocols may be admissible at trial, but also held...
Ottenwess Law Managing Partner, Stephanie Ottenwess, successfully represented an ophthalmologist before the Board of Medicine in obtaining his Michigan medical license. The physician, who had held a full unrestricted license in another state for the prior seven (7)...
Ottenwess Law represented a hospital in a claim involving a Physician Assistant and nurses. Plaintiff blackboarded over $8 million in economic damages. After expert discovery had been completed, David Ottenwess convinced the Court to dismiss the allegations against...
Ottenwess Law partner David Ottenwess join Judge Julie Gatti and Bowman and Brooke Managing Partner Jodi Munn Schebel as panelists for the “Best Practices For Effective (Virtual) Advocacy and Tips for the Young Lawyer” presentation at the MDTC Winter Conference on...
Ottenwess Law’s Managing Partner Stephanie Ottenwess served as a panelist in the “Future of Law Firms in a Post-COVID World” panel at the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel’s Winter Conference on November 4, 2022. Stephanie was joined by Deborah Brouwer of Nemeth Bonnet...