A recent case decided Feb. 10 has the nursing home industry and plaintiff malpractice attorneys clamoring over whether certain measures taken by nursing homes during the pandemic should be immune from plaintiff negligence lawsuits against nursing homes.
To read the full text of this article by Duane Morris partner Neville M. Bilimoria, which was originally published in Chicago Lawyer, please visit the firm website.
Physicians acting as investigators for a clinical trial testing a new therapy are required to present to each patient or study subject a consent form, indicating that the patient understands the risks, benefits and alternatives of participating in the trial and voluntarily elects to do so. Federal law imposes several specific items to be included in the consent form. Where all pertinent risks, benefits and alternatives have been disclosed, and the patient signs the form, the patient is said to have given “informed consent.”
A patient injured in a clinical trial studying a new therapy for Parkinson’s Disease sued the manufacturer of the equipment used in the procedure. In addition to a claim of negligent design and manufacture of the equipment itself, the patient asserted that the manufacturer, as the sponsor of the clinical trial, was negligent in drafting and approving the informed consent documents that the patient signed to participate in the clinical trial. Can a manufacturer be liable for an improperly drafted consent form? Continue reading “Clinical trial sponsors can be liable for inadequate consent forms”
