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Today Begins Our 5th Year Of Daily Blog Postings

March 6, 2015

When we began posting daily blogs on March 5, 2011, we never imagined that we would be posting blogs every day, without missing a single day, for more than four years. We never considered whether we would run out of news or topics of importance to medical malpractice victims, medical malpracti[...]

New York Governor Wants To Eliminate Free Consumer Website Listing Physicians Medical Malpractice Histories

February 20, 2015

The Governor of New York stated his intention to eliminate the free consumer website that lists the medical malpractice histories of New York physicians, in his recent $142 billion proposed budget. The free website, which costs the state about $1.2 million per year to operate, was created as a res[...]

Georgia Senate Bill Seeks To Replace Juries With Review Panels In Medical Malpractice Cases

February 10, 2015

Despite the Georgia Constitution that provides “The right to trial by jury shall remain inviolate …” and further provides “No person shall be deprived of the right to prosecute or defend, either in person or by an attorney, that person’s own cause in any of the courts[...]

The Failure Of Wisconsin’s Medical Mediation Panels

August 15, 2014

The Wisconsin Legislature created Medical Mediation Panels in 1986 in an effort to provide “an informal, inexpensive and expedient means for resolving medical malpractice disputes without litigation,” providing an early neutral evaluation that may reduce litigation costs by identifyin[...]

U.S. Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing On “More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety”

July 21, 2014

On July 17, 2014, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging held a hearing on the subject entitled, “More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety.” The Subcommittee Cha[...]

U.S. Senator Boxer’s Office Issues “Medical Errors” Report

May 4, 2014

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Office recently issued a report entitled “Medical Errors” that discusses “the most common and devastating medical errors.” In July 2013, Senator Boxer contacted Partnership for Patients (a public-private partnership funded through the Affor[...]

Kansas Senate Seeks Medical Malpractice Cap Increase And Other Reforms

March 1, 2014

The Kansas Senate has taken the initial step to increase the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in all personal injury actions, including medical malpractice cases, that was enacted in 1988 but had not increased since then despite inflation. The original Kansas cap on noneconomic damages in medic[...]

Kansas Senate Distrusts Its Citizens To Decide Medical Malpractice Cases

February 23, 2014

On February 19, 2014, the Kansas Senate passed Senate Bill 119 that would require that Kansas medical malpractice claims be initially filed with a three-member panel that would determine if the defendant(s) breached the applicable standard of care in rendering (or failing to render) medical care [...]

Republican Party’s Alternative To Obamacare Shows Its Disdain For Our Jury System

January 31, 2014

The Republican Party’s recently published counter-proposal in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) shows its utter disdain for the American jury system. The Republican Party’s proposal, which it calls The Patient Choice, Affordability, [...]

New Effort To Reimpose Medical Malpractice Cap In Missouri

January 23, 2014

If you or a family member may be the victim of medical negligence in Missouri that causes horrendous and debilitating pain and suffering or other substantial noneconomic harms, your right to receive fair, just, and full compensation for your losses and injuries is being attacked, once again, by Mi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Keep Dropping

January 16, 2014

In December 2013, the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”), which insures more Maryland physicians than all other medical malpractice liability companies in Maryland combined, announced a special dividend of 25% for its policyholders for 2014 in a[...]

Study Finds Medical Malpractice Lawyers Reject Over 90% Of Potential Cases

January 11, 2014

A study based on a national survey of medical malpractice lawyers found that over 75% of medical malpractice lawyers reject over 90% of the medical malpractice cases they screen. As a result, over 95% of medical malpractice victims find it “extremely difficult” to find a medical malpract[...]

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