Joshua Gajer

Pennsylvania legislators have long grappled with striking the right balance between maintaining open courts to allow individuals truly injured by medical negligence to receive fair compensation against the equally important...more On February 18, 2026, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order backtracking on its prior commitment to review a formal study conducted by the Civil Procedural Rules Committee to examine the practical impact the...more This past October, we reported on the United States Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari to resolve a long-standing dispute among federal circuit courts as to whether state affidavit of merit requirements apply to...more More than half of the states in the country, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York, have passed laws requiring a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action to include an affidavit or certificate of merit...more