$2 Million Vaginal Mesh Verdict
August 21, 2013
A federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia returned a $2 million verdict on August 15, 2013 in favor of the female plaintiff and against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”), which had manufactured and sold the transvaginal mesh product called Avaulta Plus that had been implanted in the 55-year-old[...]
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Dire Consequences Of Poor Dental Hygiene In Nursing Homes
August 20, 2013
An evaluation of 328 studies reported between 1996 and 2007 that appeared in the September 2010 edition of The Journal of the American Dental Association addressed the question, “Does better oral hygiene prevent health care–associated pneumonia or lower the rate of respiratory infectio[...]
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Physician Assistant Malpractice
August 18, 2013
Statistics for the rate of Physician Assistant (“PA”) malpractice claims between 1991 and 2007 indicate that medical malpractice payments made on behalf of PAs were one-half of the rate of medical malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians. The probability of a PA making a medi[...]
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Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases
August 16, 2013
Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]
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Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors
August 11, 2013
In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic errors is estimated to be between 10% and 15%, with the rate highest for specialties such as emergen[...]
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