by Linda Carroll & Alfred Lubrano A friend, on hand to lend emotional support, started screaming, “Oh my God!” Jamie Maglio Zinkus had just collapsed in the bathroom, felled by dizzying nausea as her anesthesia wore off. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she could feel herself fading…just fading…as though she [...]

by Neil Chesanow Joseph Labricciosa, an FP in the Philadelphia area, has lived through a nightmare. First, he lost his brother, Robert, to colorectal cancer. He then was sued by Rob’s widow for medical negligence. A jury not only found for the plaintiff– it awarded her a staggering $8.25 million. On Dec. 23, 1993, Rob, [...]

by John George, Staff Writer A 76-year-old south Philadelphia woman has filed suit against St. Agnes Medical Center seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for pain and suffering caused by an alleged laboratory blood test error at the facility. As many as five patients deaths have been linked to laboratory mistake, which resulted in some [...]

by April White, Of the Legal Staff “It happens across town at the beginning of every year.” Thomas R. Kline said. ” It is predicatble as snow in January that some lawyer will leave for some firm for somewhere else.” He should know– he and Shanin Specter left Beasley Casey & Erbstein to form Kline [...]