by LKG Team | Feb 3, 2023 | Medical Malpractice Defense
For the most part[1], unlike those who work in traditional settings, medical professionals working in correctional facilities face the prospect of civil rights lawsuits brought by their incarcerated patients. Often, inmates and prisoners who require medical or mental...
by LKG Team | Nov 28, 2022 | Medical Malpractice Defense
Healthcare professionals working in an emergency department see and treat a vast array of patients with unique conditions each and every shift. With few exceptions, emergency providers must treat and stabilize all patients who enter their facility with an emergency...
by LKG Team | Jul 28, 2022 | Medical Treatment
The recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Healthcare Organization has forced healthcare professionals in Wisconsin to make immediate and difficult choices in their practices. Unfortunately, these decisions have also been made mostly out of fear of...
by Sam Leib | Jun 7, 2022 | LKG News
Sam Leib and Brenden Leib argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in defense of a health care system as to application of Wisconsin Chapter 655. Seeking to affirm the trial court’s ruling dismissing plaintiff’s wrongful death claim, the justices focused their...
by LKG Team | Mar 1, 2019 | Medical Treatment, Seventh Circuit
In Miranda v. Cty. of Lake, 900 F.3d 335 (7th Cir. 2018), the Seventh Circuit held that denial of medical treatment claims by pretrial detainees are no longer subject to the deliberate indifference standard but are to be analyzed under an objective reasonableness...
