September 18, 2017
A New Mexico federal judge on Friday decided to cut 10 experts for a hospital staffing agency and emergency room nurse in a suit over allegedly improper stroke medication, ruling that neither had been able to justify trying to add the new witnesses after discovery had already ended.
August 23, 2017
A New Mexico federal judge on Tuesday trimmed expert testimony for a woman's estate in its wrongful death suit accusing a hospital of improperly giving her stroke medication, finding that two experts didn't have the credentials to make specific claims as to staffing levels on the night the woman died.
August 17, 2017
A hospital's parent company and a staffing agency can't be held liable in a patient's wrongful death suit, a New Mexico federal court ruled Thursday after finding that neither company had a legal duty of care to the woman.
August 08, 2017
A New Mexico federal judge dismissed all claims against an ER doctor and the staffing agency responsible for supervising him in a wrongful death suit that accused the doctor of failing to cancel an order for a stroke medication, ruling Tuesday that the expert report from the patient's representative had been amended too late.