How Does The Affordable Care Act Affect Me? (Part I)
May 7, 2013
The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) requires most U.S. citizens and legal residents to have health insurance and creates state-based American Health Benefit Exchanges (“AHBE”) through which individuals can purchase coverage. The ACA makes available to individuals and to families[...]
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VA Researcher’s Meningitis Death Sparks Federal Lawsuit
May 6, 2013
The family of a 25-year-old medical researcher who died in April 2012 from a rare form of meningitis (Neisseria meningitis) for which he was working on a vaccine as an employee of the Northern California Institute for Research and Education at the San Francisco Veterans Memorial Hospital lab run b[...]
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Maryland Stent Case Settled
May 5, 2013
A Maryland medical malpractice case filed by 21 medical malpractice plaintiffs against a former Maryland stent doctor and the hospital where he allegedly performed unnecessary cardiac stent procedures has settled. The Maryland medical malpractice trial had started on April 1, 2013 in the Circuit Cou[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2012
May 4, 2013
The results of an analysis of the medical malpractice payouts during 2012 that are reported in the National Practitioner Data Bank have been recently published. The analysis found that there were 12,142 total medical malpractice payouts in the United States during 2012, representing $3.6 billion i[...]
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Did Hooters Help Novartis’ Drug Sales?
May 3, 2013
Late last month it was announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division that the United States has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit filed on January 5, 2011, under the qui t[...]
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Nevada $500 Million Punitive Damages Verdict For Hepatitis C
April 30, 2013
On April 9, 2013, a Nevada jury returned a punitive damages award in the amount of $500 million against two affiliates of UnitedHealth Group ($270 million against Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million against Sierra Health Services), arising out of a hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada caused by the [...]
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Lyme Literate Lawyers
April 28, 2013
We have been receiving an increased number of Lyme disease medical malpractice inquiries from people who have suffered serious or permanent physical and psychological injuries as a result of alleged misdiagnosis of their Lyme disease, late diagnosis of their Lyme disease, and/or the failure to timel[...]
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FDA Warns About Worn/Damaged Hospital Mattresses
April 27, 2013
On April 19, 2013, the FDA issued a “safety communication” warning “that damaged or worn covers for medical bed mattresses can allow blood and body fluids to penetrate medical bed mattresses, posing a risk of infection to patients.” A medical bed mattress cover provides out[...]
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