Hawaii Medical Malpractice Claim Against Midwife
April 12, 2013
When a 28-year-old woman in Hawaii became pregnant in 2010, she hired a midwife to help with the delivery of her baby because she wanted to give birth naturally and the midwife’s website seemed to provide the information and experience that the pregnant woman wanted for her and her baby. The m[...]
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Iowa’s Misguided Medical Malpractice Reform Efforts
April 11, 2013
The Iowa Legislature is considering bills in both its House and Senate that would “reform” its medical malpractice laws. As one example, Senate Study Bill No. 1054 would add a requirement for a certificate of merit affidavit to be filed for each expert who is expected to testify to the [...]
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Hospitalist Malpractice
April 10, 2013
What is a “hospitalist”? A hospitalist is a physician who specializes in the care of patients while they are in the hospital. The term “hospitalist” was first used in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996 to describe physicians who spend most of their time caring fo[...]
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$2.1 Million New York Radiology Malpractice Verdict
April 6, 2013
After almost three weeks of trial and on the second day of jury deliberations, a New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $2.1 million against a radiologist and in favor of a 56-year-old man whose lesion found on a CT scan of his spine in February 2008 was not p[...]
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Maryland Dental Malpractice Claim Settled For Teen’s Death
April 4, 2013
On March 28, 2011, a Maryland 17-year-old high school junior went in for dental surgery to have her wisdom teeth extracted. Her brain was deprived of oxygen during the dental surgery which resulted in the teenager suffering a severe brain injury. The 17-year-old never awoke from the anesthesia a[...]
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