3-Year-Old Dies From Dental Malpractice In Hawaii
January 6, 2014
A 3-year-old died on January 3, 2014 in Hawaii , one month after she suffered cardiac arrest and became comatose during a dental procedure. According to the dental malpractice case filed by the little girl’s parents on December 30, 20113, the child was taken to a Kailua, Hawaii dentist on De[...]
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Laser Hair Removal Injury Claims
October 21, 2013
The results of a study designed to identify the incidence of medical professional liability claims stemming from cutaneous laser surgery performed by nonphysician operators (“NPOs”) in the United States that was published online in the journal JAMA Dermatol on October 16, 2013 showed�[...]
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Podiatrist Malpractice Lawsuit Filed In Texas
October 20, 2013
On September 20, 2013, an Arkansas woman filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Texas against her former podiatrist, claiming that he negligently performed surgery on her right foot that left her with painful and permanent injuries. The podiatry medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the podiatr[...]
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Plastic Surgery Malpractice Statistics
October 7, 2013
While many people think of elective surgery designed to enhance one’s physical appearance when they think of plastic surgery, plastic surgery is a godsend for people who have suffered physical injuries due to accidents, have congenital deformities, or have suffered trauma due to disease. W[...]
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Nurse Practitioner Malpractice Statistics
October 5, 2013
A large medical malpractice insurance company recently studied 1,800 reported adverse incidents and claims involving nurse practitioners that were closed between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2011 and subsequently reviewed and analyzed 200 of the claims against nurse practitioners that re[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payments To Veterans Hit 12-Year High
September 16, 2013
Medical malpractice payments to veterans made on behalf of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) totaled $91.7 million in 2012 (an increase of 28% from 2011, when the VA paid approximately $72 million in medical malpractice payments), which was the highest amount in 12 years. F[...]
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State Medical Boards Are Failing Patients
August 25, 2013
An investigation report appearing in USA TODAY on August 20, 2013 found that thousands of doctors throughout the United States who lost their clinical privileges at hospitals and other medical facilities due to their misconduct were not punished by the state medical boards that were responsible fo[...]
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Dire Consequences Of Poor Dental Hygiene In Nursing Homes
August 20, 2013
An evaluation of 328 studies reported between 1996 and 2007 that appeared in the September 2010 edition of The Journal of the American Dental Association addressed the question, “Does better oral hygiene prevent health care–associated pneumonia or lower the rate of respiratory infectio[...]
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Physician Assistant Malpractice
August 18, 2013
Statistics for the rate of Physician Assistant (“PA”) malpractice claims between 1991 and 2007 indicate that medical malpractice payments made on behalf of PAs were one-half of the rate of medical malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians. The probability of a PA making a medi[...]
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