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New Jersey Nursing Home Abuse Caught On Video

May 5, 2012

In one of the most disturbing and frightful examples of nursing home violence against a nursing home resident that was caught on video, an 87-year-old paralyzed woman was shown being struck violently and cursed at by the very aides who were supposed to be providing her with necessary care. Th[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Infected Bedsores Leading To Death

May 4, 2012

A Colorado medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $3.2 million in favor of the family of an 88-year-old-man in a nursing home who died from infected bedsores, one of which was the size of a baseball, that were allegedly not properly treated. The nursing home that is responsib[...]

Inappropriate Use Of Anti-Psychotic Medications In Nursing Homes

May 3, 2012

Federal data recently reviewed by a major newspaper pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request reveals that the inappropriate use of anti-psychotic medications for nursing home residents is rampant. Anti-psychotic medications are typically used in the treatment of severe mental disorders suc[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Lead To Legal Malpractice Claims

May 2, 2012

A Putnam County, West Virginia attorney and his two former law partners are being sued for legal malpractice for the third time in a year for their alleged wrongful handling of medical malpractice claims against the same doctor. In this most recent case filed on April 13, 2012, the three plaintiff[...]

Epidemic Of Drug Babies In The U.S.

May 1, 2012

Babies born addicted to drugs due to their mothers’ use of illicit drugs during pregnancy is not new. However, an increasing epidemic of babies addicted to prescription medications, especially narcotics such as oxycodone, is particularly alarming. Many such newborns will be born with neonat[...]

Medical Malpractice Payouts Statistics For 2011

April 30, 2012

An analysis of the medical malpractice payouts data reported for 2011 to the National Practitioner Data Bank was performed by Diederich Healthcare, which is a national medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to over 13,000 healthcar[...]

Connecticut Senate Passes Medical Malpractice Bill To Reform Prior Reforms

April 29, 2012

On April 27, 2012, the Connecticut Senate passed by a margin of 32 to 3 a medical malpractice bill that would reform Connecticut’s medical malpractice reforms enacted in 2005. In particular, the proposed bill would revise the requirement that medical malpractice plaintiffs obtain a written rep[...]

Debt Collectors Roam Hospital Departments And Patient Rooms

April 28, 2012

In a scathing compliance review report issued by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on April 24, 2012 entitled “Violations of Federal and State Debt Collection Laws,” the hospital debt collection practices of a large health care debt-collection company called Accretive Health, Inc.[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal In Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer Case

April 27, 2012

On April 12, 2012, the Court of Appeals of Indiana filed its decision in a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that his gastroenterologist failed to timely diagnose his colon cancer. The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.25 millio[...]

PET Scan Use In Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease

April 26, 2012

One of the greatest fears among the elderly and adults approaching advanced age is the loss of cognitive function and memory due to Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. While it is not uncommon for people without dementia to sometimes forget where they had placed their car keys, oth[...]

Massachusetts Hospitals Cited For Turning Away Emergency Room Patients

April 25, 2012

Within the last six months, three Massachusetts hospitals have been cited for unjustifiably turning away and failing to treat three patients who came to their emergency rooms seeking treatment. One case involved transferring a patient to another hospital while the patient was unstable and in respi[...]

A Website That Exploits Doctors’ Fear Of Medical Malpractice Claims

April 24, 2012

We recently came upon a business called “Medical Justice” that has its own website and is apparently operated by a former practicing neurosurgeon that gave us pause and raised ethical and other questions when we read on its website that it “offers proactive services that pro[...]

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