Is This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death
April 10, 2012
One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a living liver donor died on the operating room table while giving the gift of life to his brother-in-l[...]
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Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection
April 9, 2012
A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]
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A Study Of Defense Costs For Medical Malpractice Claims
April 7, 2012
An article appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine on April 5, 2012 analyzed 26,853 medical malpractice claims that were closed between 1995 and 2005 (“closed claims” include medical malpractice claims that resulted in an indemnity payment (a payment made to a medical malprac[...]
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Louisiana Medical Malpractice Cap Upheld (Again)
April 6, 2012
In a decision issued on March 13, 2012, the Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld as constitutional the Louisiana medical malpractice damage cap as applied to nurse practitioners (La.R.S. 40:1299.42(B) provides, in pertinent part: “(1) The total amount recoverable for all malpractice claims for i[...]
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Missouri Medical Malpractice Cap Being Challenged
April 5, 2012
A 2005 Missouri law that placed caps on non-economic damages in the amount of $350,000 is presently being challenged as unconstitutional in a case before the Supreme Court of Missouri. The case involves a medical malpractice claim arising out of the birth of a baby in Missouri on November 1, 2006.[...]
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Melanoma Rates For Young People Are Rising Rapidly
April 3, 2012
Cutaneous melanoma is the most serious and deadly form of skin cancer. Melanoma ranks as the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women. However, among young adults (18 to 39), melanoma is the second most common invasive cancer (breast cancer is number one). While[...]
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Autism Rates In U.S. Skyrocketed In Last 10 Years
March 31, 2012
What Is Autism? According to the National Institute of Mental Health, autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (ASD), that includes a wide range of symptoms that may result in mild impairment to severe disability. There are five pervasive d[...]
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