Wrongful Birth Claims And Wrongful Life Claims
March 17, 2012
Wrongful birth claims and wrongful life claims are medical malpractice claims arising out of the allegation that the parents were negligently deprived of the opportunity to avoid a pregnancy or to terminate a pregnancy, usually involving a deformed fetus or a fetus with a severe medical conditio[...]
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Virginia Dentist Pulled Too Many Teeth
March 16, 2012
A Maryland man in his mid-60s went to a Virginia dentist instead of a Maryland dentist because the Virginia dentist was closer to his girlfriend’s home and the Virginia dentist was also a member of the same church as his girlfriend. So when the man needed to replace a dental crown in 2010, he[...]
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Are Metal Hip Replacements Safe?
March 15, 2012
The world’s largest artificial joint registry, the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, recommended this month that the use of metal-on-metal hip replacements be stopped, based on a study of the data involving more than 400,000 hip replacements between 2003 and 2011 that included d[...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims Against The VA
March 14, 2012
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) provides health care to more than 5 million veterans each year in over 1,000 facilities. As of November, 2010, the VA’s health care system had 153 VA medical centers, 773 community-based outpatient clinics, 135 nursing homes, 260 Vet Ce[...]
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The Impact Of Anesthesia Medical Malpractice On Practitioners
March 13, 2012
In an article published in the March, 2012 issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the results of a survey sent to 1,200 randomly selected members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, of which 659 completed and returned the survey, found that 84% of the respondents had been [...]
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C. Difficile Infections
March 11, 2012
C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]
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Patient Dumping Settlements In 2011
March 10, 2012
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“OIG”) has reported the following settlements involving patient dumping cases in 2011 that resulted in the payment of a civil monetary penalty (the settling parties denied the patient dumping allega[...]
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