This Is Our 2,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Post
August 11, 2016
It is with great pride and satisfaction that we post our 2,000th consecutive daily blog today. While our accomplishment is a major milestone in our mission to assist victims of medical malpractice gain knowledge and assistance in achieving fairness and justice for the harms they suffered, it is s[...]
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Wisconsin $1.2B Medical Malpractice Fund Has $783M Surplus
April 13, 2016
A state audit of the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (“Fund”) reported in March that the Fund has a balance of $1.2 billion, which represents a surplus of $783 million in the Fund (the recommended range for the Fund is $86.4 million to $376.6 million). What Is T[...]
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Best (And Worst) U.S. States For Physicians In 2016
April 6, 2016
A recent analysis ranks the 50 U. S. states and the District of Columbia with regard to their working environments for physicians. Although the analysis was not undertaken by a well-known research group and is not peer reviewed, it does shed light on which U.S. states are the best, and which are th[...]
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Communication Failures In Medical Malpractice Cases
February 5, 2016
A recent report regarding communication failures that contribute to medical malpractice claims found that a communication failure was a factor in 7,149 (30%) of the 23,685 medical malpractice cases filed in the United States from 2009 to 2013, representing $1.7 billion in incurred losses. Of the 7,1[...]
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Methodology Of Recent Medical Malpractice Study Questioned
February 2, 2016
We discussed in our January 28, 2016 blog posting that a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on January 28, 2016 reported that 1% of physicians were responsible for 32% of the paid medical malpractice claims in the United States over the ten-year period that was analyzed by the [...]
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Anesthesia Medical Malpractice Statistics
January 24, 2016
The findings of a retrospective analysis of anesthesia-related medical malpractice claims that spanned the period from 2005 to 2013 and were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank were presented during the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in October 2015. The stu[...]
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U.S. Physicians And Their Disciplinary/Malpractice Statistics
January 1, 2016
The U.S. government and many U.S. states gather and publish statistics regarding physicians practicing medicine in the United States. Sometimes it is difficult for people to find information regarding physicians practicing in their state and the incidence of disciplinary actions and medical malpract[...]
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