May 17, 2024
An orthopedic surgeon who sued Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for gender discrimination over its handling of sexual assault allegations has settled his case with the hospital after a $15 million award in his favor was erased.
May 09, 2024
A Philadelphia federal judge on Thursday denied a former Thomas Jefferson University Hospital surgeon's request to reinstate a $15 million jury verdict against his onetime employer, reasoning that the judge would have reached the same conclusion as a previous judge who vacated the award before recusing himself from a new trial.
April 22, 2024
Despite originally declining to recuse himself from a surgeon's gender discrimination case against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital when an attorney from his son-in-law's firm, Cozen O'Connor, became involved, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson changed his mind now that the case is set for a retrial.
April 05, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has denied attorney fees after undoing a $15 million verdict won by a surgeon who alleged that Thomas Jefferson University exhibited anti-male bias in investigating a medical resident's sexual assault claims against him, ruling a new trial was necessary.
March 15, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has erased a $15 million verdict won by a surgeon who said Thomas Jefferson University ignored his claims that a female resident sexually assaulted him, ruling that text messages he sent warranted a new trial.
January 12, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday declined to recuse himself from a surgeon's gender discrimination case against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after an attorney at Cozen O'Connor — where his son-in-law is an attorney and shareholder — became involved with the lawsuit last month.
January 09, 2024
Thomas Jefferson University urged a Pennsylvania federal court to undo a $15 million gender bias judgment against it over its handling of a sexual assault investigation against a former Rothman Institute surgeon, arguing a new trial is necessary since the court kept the jury ignorant of allegedly inconsistent statements the doctor made.
December 19, 2023
Attorneys for a surgeon who last week won a $15 million gender bias verdict over Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's handling of a sexual assault investigation against him asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday for nearly $600,000 in attorney fees.
December 11, 2023
A Philadelphia federal jury on Monday awarded $15 million to a surgeon who claimed Thomas Jefferson University Hospital exhibited anti-male bias in investigating allegations the surgeon sexually assaulted a medical resident.
December 08, 2023
The damages phase of a surgeon's gender discrimination case against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has been extended to Monday after the hospital claimed the doctor produced a surprise punitive damages claim at the same time its lead counsel had to abruptly seek medical care Friday morning.