News published on Pennsylvania Record in March 2022

Managed Care Contracts: Medicare and Medicaid Considerations for Providers on March 2, 2022.

PHILADELPHIA – When it reconvenes this week, members of the Philadelphia-based American Law Institute are expected to discuss and further revise the group’s proposed guidelines on the topic of medical monitoring, a practice which critics say may expand damage recoveries in tort cases.

PITTSBURGH – A Western Pennsylvania woman claims that a local contractor’s negligence in piercing an underground gas main and failing to report the subsequent leak led to the death of her mother from exposure to the gas.

MEDIA – A Delaware County woman who has now twice alleged that negligence on the part of a host of medical professionals in the Crozer Health Care System led to her late husband’s cancer being missed in examinations, has been granted the requested consolidation of both of her cases.

PITTSBURGH – A New York City attorney facing allegations of providing inadequate representation to former client and Pennsylvania contractor who lost $1 million in an underlying bankruptcy action has removed the case to federal court.

PITTSBURGH – Dollar Tree denied the allegations of a Pittsburgh woman claiming that her special needs daughter was disfigured on the back of her head by an elastic headband she had purchased at one of its stores.

Shelley Smith Named to Savoy Magazine’s 2022 Most Influential Black Lawyers.