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Wyoming Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Neglect

July 13, 2019

The surviving wife of a 49-year-old nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit against a Wyoming nursing home, alleging that her husband was neglected before he died. The Wyoming nursing home negligence lawsuit alleges that the man did not have a bowel movement for several weeks and was bathed only t[...]

Vermont Supreme Court Recognizes Common-Law Private Right Of Action For Damages Resulting From Unjustified Disclosure To Third Party Of Information Obtained By Medical Personnel During Treatment

July 7, 2019

The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in its decision filed on May 17, 2019,”we recognize a common-law private right of action for damages based on a medical provider’s unjustified disclosure to third persons of information obtained during treatment.” The plaintiff had alleged in her lawsuit[...]

At Least 34,000 Deaths Associated With Biologic Drugs Since 2004

July 4, 2019

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel conducted an analysis of data from the FDA and found “at least 34,000 reports to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of people who died while using biologic drugs since 2004.” The analysis further found, “More than 1 million “adverse events” wer[...]

Kaiser Health News Reports On FDA’s “Hidden” Database Of Malfunctions Of Medical Devices

July 2, 2019

Kaiser Health News reported on June 27, 2019 that its investigation found that “[medical] device manufacturers, for the past two decades, had been sending reports of injuries or malfunctions to the little-known database [alternative summary reporting database], bypassing the public FDA databas[...]

FDA Makes Public Previously Hidden Database Of Millions Of Reports Of Malfunctioning Medical Devices

July 1, 2019

In June 2019, the FDA formally ended the Alternative Summary Reporting (ASR) Program and revoked all such exemptions, now making all reports received under ASR exemptions from 1999 to 2019 available. The extensive database of ASR incident reports regarding medical device malfunctions was previously [...]

OIG Report Finds Nursing Homes Failed To Report And Investigate Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect

June 28, 2019

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its report entitled “Incidents Of Potential Abuse And Neglect At Skilled Nursing Facilities Not Always Reported And Investigated” in June 2019 in which the OIG stated, in part: “We determined that an estimated one in five high-risk h[...]

Report Discusses The Impact Of Medical Errors In Massachusetts

June 25, 2019

The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety’s June 2019 report entitled “The Financial and Human Cost of Medical Error … and how Massachusetts can lead the way on patient safety” found “almost 62,000 medical errors [in Massachusetts], which were responsible for over $617[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Discusses ERISA Preemption In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case

June 6, 2019

The issue the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) had to decide in its May 24, 2019 opinion was whether the plaintiff’s Alabama medical malpractice wrongful death claims against Blue Advantage brought pursuant to § 6-5-410, Ala. Code 1975, are preempted by ERISA. Th[...]

Investigation Finds Hundreds Of Florida Doctors With Multiple Medical Malpractice Payouts Still Practicing Despite Three Strikes Law

June 1, 2019

A Florida news organization reports that it found “[h]undreds of Florida doctors have paid out multiple malpractice claims – putting patients at risk 15 years after voters passed a law that was supposed to take away their licenses … Florida doctors paid out more than $460 million for m[...]

Drug Manufacturers Will Be Required To Disclose Drug Prices In TV Advertisements

May 26, 2019

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on May 8, 2019 a final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that will require direct-to-consumer television advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals covered by Medicare or Medicaid to incl[...]

Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center Reports Increase In Opioid-Related Deaths In 2018

May 21, 2019

The Maryland Opioid Operational Command Center issued its “Opioid Operational Command Center Annual Report January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018” on May 9, 2019, stating, “We have found that the rate of increase in the overall number of opioid-related fatalities has slowed for two [...]

CDC Study: Three In Five Pregnancy-Related Deaths In U.S. Were Preventable

May 17, 2019

The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated May 10, 2019 entitled “Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017” concluded that “Approximately three in five pregnancy-related deaths were pre[...]

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