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VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Claim Settled For $500,000

January 8, 2013

The VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a widow for the death of her husband as a result of alleged medical malpractice for $500,000, which has been approved by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio. The medical malpr[...]

Illinois Bill To Adjust Cap On Medical Malpractice Attorneys Fees Passes In Senate

January 7, 2013

Senate Floor Amendment 2 to Illinois House Bill 5151, which passed in the Illinois Senate on January 3, 2013 on a 36-15 vote, would cap attorneys’ fees in medical malpractice cases at one-third of a plaintiff’s award and would bar lawyers from petitioning the court for higher fees in medical[...]

Nurse Practitioner Malpractice And Physician Assistant Malpractice Claims

January 6, 2013

There are 86,500 certified physician assistants (“PAs”) in the United States currently, which is a 100% increase from ten years ago. The number of nurse practitioners (“NPs”) has increased from 111,000 in 2003 to about 155,000 currently. PAs are allowed to prescribe medicat[...]

Medication Mistake Leads To Illinois Medical Malpractice Claim

January 5, 2013

On January 2, 2013, a medical malpractice claim was filed in Illinois against a nursing home in which it is alleged that medication mistakes led to a resident’s death. The medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the wrong dosage of medication and the improper combination of medications by two [...]

Physician Monitoring Programs Reduce Medical Malpractice Claims By 20%

January 4, 2013

When physicians suffer from alcohol abuse, drug dependency problems, or mental health issues, they are often referred to physician health programs (“PHPs”) that provide monitoring of their medical practices while they undergo necessary treatment, either voluntarily or involuntarily. [...]

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Claims

January 3, 2013

Many people are under the impression that Lyme disease is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and that Lyme disease misdiagnosis cases are also of recent vintage. However, Lyme disease misdiagnosis claims have been around for over a decade and appear to us to be increasing in frequency,[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Reduces $10 Million Jury Award To $300,000 For Paralyzed Man

January 2, 2013

A 36-year-old man was left paralyzed from the chest down due to medical malpractice, as determined by a Colorado medical malpractice jury that awarded him $10 million for the noneconomic damages that he sustained as a result of medical negligence after a three-week trial. The total medical malprac[...]

New York City Medical Malpractice Claim Statistics For Fiscal Year 2011

January 1, 2013

On December 27, 2012, New York City’s Comptroller, John C. Lui, issued the official City of New York Office of the Comptroller Claims Report Fiscal Year 2011 concerning all claims against the City of New York for Fiscal Year 2011 that totalled $550.4 million in payments for settlements and ju[...]

Florida Supreme Court Expected To Rule On Florida’s Medical Malpractice Cap Soon

December 31, 2012

The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments in February, 2012 in a case that may determine the constitutionality of Florida’s cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that was enacted in 2003 (the cap is $500,000 or $1 million under certain circumstances, depending on the[...]

FDA Shuts Down More Than 18,000 Illegal Internet Pharmacy Websites

December 30, 2012

Between September 25 and October 2, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in cooperation and coordination with international law enforcement and regulatory agencies in 100 countries, shut down more than 18,000 illegal Internet pharmacy websites operated by more than 4,100[...]

Russian Medical Malpractice Claim Denied For Jailed Activist’s Death

December 29, 2012

It is not very often that a medical malpractice claim in one country has led to international repercussions in which sovereign countries have enacted laws directed at officials of other countries in a spiraling escalation of retaliatory responses. But that is apparently what is happening this [...]

CDC Study Shows Large Increase In Childbirth Complications

December 28, 2012

A recent study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) found a 75% increase in emergencies during childbirth between 1998 and 2009, and that severe complications for women more than doubled in the days immediately following delivery during the same time period. There was found to[...]

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