Wronged By Another Without The Right To Recover
January 13, 2014
When a medical professional’s negligence or carelessness leads to the suffering of another, you would think that the innocent victim would be fairly and adequately compensated for the losses and harms he suffered. Not so, demand medical malpractice tort reformers. The reformers do not wish[...]
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Kaiser Sued Over Access To Mental Health Benefits
November 2, 2013
On October 3, 2013, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (“Kaiser”) in California by three plaintiffs who allege on their own behalf and on behalf of potentially thousands of other patients that Kaiser is failing to properly treat pa[...]
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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[...]
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$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 26, 2013
On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The medical m[...]
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$8.3M Jury Verdict In DePuy Hip Implant Case
March 17, 2013
On March 8, 2013, a Los Angeles, California jury awarded $8.3 million to a 65-year-old plaintiff who had received an ASR XL hip implant manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics (“DePuy”), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, finding that the hip implant was defectively designed and caused th[...]
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