People with serious medical conditions can suffer worsening symptoms and a poorer prognosis when doctors fail to properly diagnose them or wrongly diagnose them with a different health issue. In the case of cancer, diagnostic failures are especially dangerous. Many types of cancer are treatable when they are diagnosed in earlier phases, but if the […]
Dan Lawn is a 2015 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and a 2018 graduate of the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University. Dan had been an associate in the litigation department of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis. The son of Tim Lawn, the firm is very excited to have […]
Congratulating Joseph Z. Traub and Dan Bencivenga on publishing articles on developments in product liability law in the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Verdict magazine. Joe’s article discussed the impact on jury instructions of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s landscape-changing opinion in Tincher v. Omega Flex. Jury instructions are particularly important in light of the opinion having […]
Missed diagnoses are among the most common types of medical errors that doctors sometimes make. If you go to the doctor because you are feeling unwell and are told that you are fine, the doctor might have made a medical mistake especially when you are suffering from a serious condition that he or she failed […]
For Bernard W. Smalley, it all started in his father’s West Philadelphia barbershop. Perched on the shoeshine stand, a young Bernard W. Smalley watched as his father cut the hair and dispersed wisdom to some of Philadelphia’s greatest legal minds: William H. Hastie, the first African American to serve as chief judge of a U.S. […]