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Unsafe Injection Practices And Contaminated Needles

August 10, 2013

The CDC reports that a survey of U.S. healthcare workers who provide medication through injection found that 1% to 3% reused the same needle and/or syringe on multiple patients (some healthcare personnel are unaware of, do not understand, or do not adhere to basic principles of infection control an[...]

Study: Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Do Not Decrease Defensive Medicine

August 9, 2013

The results of a study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change that was funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform and which appears in the August 2013 edition of the journal Health Affairs found that office-based physicians who reported a high level of medical malpr[...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Protects Indigent Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

August 8, 2013

In its opinion filed on August 5, 2013, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) came to the aid of indigent medical malpractice plaintiffs when it decided that a judge may not refuse to reduce the amount of a required bond solely because he or she believes the plaintiffs̵[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Loss Based On Statute Of Limitations

August 7, 2013

The Indiana Supreme Court revived a medical malpractice claim that the trial court had determined to have been filed too late under the relevant Indiana statute of limitations. The Indiana Supreme Court began its written opinion by stating, “In this case, the parties have spent five years d[...]

Kentucky Children’s Hospital Continues To Refuse To Provide Data On Pediatric Heart Surgery Deaths

August 6, 2013

What’s going on with the Kentucky Children’s Hospital? It continues to refuse to provide data regarding pediatric heart surgery deaths despite the March 27, 2013 Open Records Decision of the Kentucky Attorney General that found that the University of Kentucky violated the Open Records [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

August 5, 2013

In its written opinion dated July 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”) affirmed a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $400,000 in compensatory damages for a knee infection claim, $500,000 in compensatory damages for a wro[...]

Supreme Court Of Florida Rejects Arbitration Agreement In Medical Malpractice Case

August 4, 2013

In its decision filed on June 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that an agreement to arbitrate a medical malpractice claim against a Florida surgeon was unenforceable. The patient had signed a “Financial Agreement” prior to his surgery t[...]

D.C. Cardiologist Ordered To Pay More Than $17 Million For Fraudulent Claims

August 3, 2013

Earlier this week, a nuclear cardiologist who has practiced in the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) since 2002, and two of his companies, had a judgment entered against them in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in excess of $17 million for submitting false nucle[...]

Medical Malpractice Physician Survey Results

August 2, 2013

In a recently reported survey of physicians in the United States, almost 1,400 of the responding physicians reported that they had been sued for medical malpractice (approximately 40% of the respondents had been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, with 9% being named as the only defendant a[...]

District Of Columbia Court Of Appeals Affirms $6.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 1, 2013

On July 25, 2013, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld a $6.5 million verdict for inadequate prenatal care that led to the premature birth and severe and permanent injuries suffered by a newborn. The Washington, D.C. medical malpractice claim alleged that on March 5, 1987, the woman w[...]

Is There New Hope For California Medical Malpractice Victims?

July 31, 2013

California has one of the most unfair, draconian caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that has not changed in nearly 40 years (the price of gasoline in California in 1975 was 58.7 cents per gallon (source) when the California Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act was enacted[...]

Tennessee $33.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury

July 30, 2013

On July 15, 2013, a Tennessee medical malpractice jury awarded $33.5 million against an obstetrician and his employer for the obstetrician’s alleged failure to perform a timely cesarean section delivery that resulted in the newborn’s severe and permanent brain injury and a form of cereb[...]

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