Melissa Terranova

May 28, 2024 | mondaq.com | Melissa Terranova

Despite the judicial hierarchy of a state's appellate court, its power to review and correct errors made by a trial court is based on standards of review that serve to establish a deferential approach. The standards foster the creation of a stable body of legal precedents intended to guide the trial courts in addressing substantive and procedural law.

May 14, 2024 | law.com | Melissa Terranova

Despite the judicial hierarchy of a state’s appellate court, its power to review and correct errors made by a trial court is based on standards of review that serve to establish a deferential approach. The standards foster the creation of a stable body of legal precedents intended to guide the trial courts in addressing substantive and procedural law.

May 14, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Peter D. Espey |Jacqueline Vogt |Boris Peyzner |Melissa Terranova

In the last decade, there has been an increasing tendency for medical malpractice plaintiffs to include as defendants not only the health care providers who rendered the allegedly negligent care and the practice groups with which they were affiliated or employed, but also to name those corporations or limited liability companies which either managed or provided support services to the defendant practice groups on a “piercing the corporate veil” or “alter ego” theory.