Our 600th Consecutive Daily Blog Post
October 24, 2012
Today we celebrate our 600th consecutive daily blog post. Our milestone makes us proud because we have covered many relevant and timely topics that have provided our readers with information that they could use at the time they needed the information the most. The responses to our blog have been tre[...]
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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death
October 23, 2012
On October 15, 2012, the surviving wife of a Tennessee prison inmate filed a medical malpractice wrongful death claim against the Tennessee Department of Correction in which she alleges that her 48-year-old husband died in prison due to medical malpractice. Her husband had a lung x-ray in September [...]
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Former Indiana Surgeon Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison
October 20, 2012
On October 12, 2012, a former Indiana surgeon was sentenced by a federal judge to seven years in federal prison, twice the amount of time recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, as a result of his conviction for billing patients and their insurance companies for procedures that he had not per[...]
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Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Disaster In The United States
October 17, 2012
Every week we receive many inquiries from people who have been diagnosed with Lyme disease who want to know if they have a possible medical malpractice claim for the failure of their primary care physicians or other health care providers to order timely and appropriate medical testing for Lyme dis[...]
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Fungal Meningitis Outbreak: More NECC Products Are Suspected
October 16, 2012
The FDA issued a press release on October 15, 2012 regarding the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States that is suspected to be associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”) since May 21, 2012. The [...]
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