Our 1,700th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting
October 16, 2015
Today’s blog post is our 1,700th consecutive daily blog posting to our website, www.medicalmalpracticelawyers.com. While we continue to report on medical malpractice verdicts throughout the United States in favor of injured victims of medical malpractice, according to statistics from the U.S.[...]
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New Study Of Orthopedic Medical Malpractice Claims
September 3, 2015
A study released on August 27, 2015 by The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company in the United States, analyzed 1,895 medical malpractice claims made against orthopedists insured by The Doctors Company that were closed between 2007 and 2014. Th[...]
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65% Of U.S. Cancer Patients Survive At Least 5 Years
May 15, 2015
A recent analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found the 65% of patients in the United States who have cancer survive at least five years after diagnosis. National health goals in the United States include a goal of 71.1% for 5-year cancer survival rates after initial[...]
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D.C. Medical Malpractice Verdicts In 2014
April 23, 2015
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia (“D.C. Superior Court”) is the trial court of general jurisdiction for the District of Columbia, which was established by the U.S. Congress in 1970. The D.C. Superior Court consists of a chief judge, 61 associate judges, and 24 magistra[...]
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Cardiology Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics
March 25, 2015
A recent review by the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States of 429 cardiology medical malpractice claims that closed between 2007 and 2013 found that allegations of diagnosis failure (the failure to diagnose, the delay in diagnosis, and/or the wrong diagnosis)[...]
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Surgical Errors
February 26, 2015
An analysis of surgical errors in the United States that was reported in the medical journal Patient Safety in Surgery in 2014 found that between 46% and 65% of adverse events that occur in hospitals are related to surgery (especially with regard to complex surgical procedures). A 2012 study unde[...]
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Mohs Surgery Malpractice Claims
February 24, 2015
Mohs surgery (Mohs micrographic surgery) is a skin cancer treatment technique developed by Dr. Frederic Mohs at the University of Wisconsin in the 1930s that differs from other skin cancer treatments by performing the immediate and complete microscopic examination of removed cancerous tissue that[...]
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Medical Malpractice Liability Trends In The United States
November 5, 2014
In a “special communication” published on October 30, 2014 in the online edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors reviewed recent trends in medical liability claims and costs in the United States that showed a “sharp reduction” in the rate of p[...]
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