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Courts shouldn’t interfere with physician’s choice of lawyer
If an appellate court docket determination is authorized to stand, Pennsylvania physicians in medical legal responsibility instances would be vulnerable to not becoming equipped to use the law firm they want to depict them. The Pennsylvania Exceptional Court docket in 2022 dominated that a legislation company representing an anesthesiologist in a professional medical liability circumstance stemming from a knee operation could not also symbolize the orthopaedic surgeon who carried out the surgical procedures in a deposition that the patient’s attorney was getting. The Litigation Heart of the American Clinical Affiliation and State Medical Societies and the Pennsylvania Clinical Modern society (PAMED) submitted an amicus temporary in the case, Mertis v.…


