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What Is Medical Malpractice? (Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Connecticut)

September 9, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and Connecticut: Florida 456.50 Repeated medical malpractice.— (1) (g) “Medical malpractice” means the failure to practice medicine in accordance with the[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

September 8, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]

2012 Republican Party Platform And “Tort Reform”

August 31, 2012

The Republican Party has published its 2012 Republican Party Platform in which it addresses many issues, including “tort reform” under the heading, “Reducing Costs through Tort Reform,” in which it states: Frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits have ballooned the cost of[...]

Diagnostic Errors In Hospital ICUs Cause 40,500 Deaths Annually

August 30, 2012

The results from a recent study undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality that reviewed 31 studies that included 5,863 autopsies involving patients who died in hospital Intensive Care Units found that 28% of the patients who died had a least one missed [...]

Internet Pharmacy Doctor’s Criminal Charge Dismissed Due To Too Much Evidence

August 29, 2012

During early August, 2012, a Miami doctor who was indicted in 2007 for allegedly selling prescription drugs to patients who were never interviewed or examined had his criminal indictment dismissed with prejudice by a federal judge in Iowa, at the request of the federal prosecutors, because of th[...]

$100 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Injury Due To Premature Birth

August 28, 2012

On August 24, 2012, a Staten Island, New York medical malpractice jury awarded more than $100 million in favor of a now-seventeen-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy due to a brain injury that the jury found was the result of the medical negligence in caring for her mother while she was pregn[...]

Maine Supreme Court Overturns Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2012

On August 21, 2012, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (“Maine Supreme Court”) overturned a Maine medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $420,000 in favor of a man and his wife and against a local hospital for the injuries the man allegedly suffered as a result of medic[...]

California Hospital Chain Agrees To Pay $16.5 Million For Illegal Kickback Scheme

August 26, 2012

The FBI has announced that Los Angeles Doctor’s Hospital Inc., which is a subsidiary of Pacific Health Corporation, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by paying illegal kickbacks to marketers who were paid to recruit homeless people and bring them to the [...]

Is Coronary Artery Calcium A Good Indicator For Future Heart Disease?

August 25, 2012

A new study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that coronary artery calcium was approximately six times better at predicting the risk of coronary heart disease than a family history of coronary heart disease. The study involved 6,814 participants, of whic[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Claim Against Kaiser Doctor

August 24, 2012

During the summer 0f 2009, an Oregon man was having problems with his right wrist and therefore sought a medical opinion and medical care from a doctor employed by Kaiser Permanente. According to the medical malpractice case filed on his behalf on July 16, 2012 in the Oregon Circuit Courts for Mari[...]

Wrongful Disclosure Of Mental Health Records

August 23, 2012

On August 2, 2012, a lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California for Riverside County that alleges the wrongful disclosure of a patient’s mental health records, in violation of federal and state laws. The lawsuit claims that the defendants in the present case were also the defenda[...]

Connecticut Nursing Home Workers On Strike

August 22, 2012

Approximately 600 workers at five nursing homes in Connecticut that are owned by HealthBridge Management have been on strike since July 3, 2012. The unionized workers walked off their jobs after the nursing homes’ owner implemented major changes that the workers considered to be very detrimen[...]

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