Recent Study Questions True Costs Of Defensive Medicine
September 26, 2014
One of the medical industry’s favorite arguments for medical malpractice reforms that insulate negligent medical providers from liability for the harms they cause to medical malpractice victims who are not adequately compensated for their devastating injuries due to limits (caps) on damage[...]
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Today, We Celebrate Our 1,300th CONSECUTIVE Daily Blog Posting
September 10, 2014
When we began our blogging on a daily basis three-and-a-half years ago on March 5, 2011, we had no particular goal in mind as to how many consecutive daily blogs we would post. In fact, we were concerned that we would soon run out of relevant medical malpractice topics that we could blog about and [[...]
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Should Doctors Be Tested For Drugs And Alcohol Abuse?
August 28, 2014
California voters who go to the polls on November 4, 2014 will be faced with the public safety issue whether doctors in California should be tested for drug and alcohol abuse, which is contained in California’s Proposition 46. Part of the Official Summary for Proposition 46 states, “R[...]
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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[...]
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Man Enters Hospital For Circumcision, Leaves Without His Penis
July 28, 2014
Sounds like a bad joke, but it was horrifically serious for a man in Alabama. On July 22, 2014, the Alabama man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Alabama state court against a hospital and others for his injuries and damages resulting from the amputation of his penis during a circumcision [...]
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Tennessee Appellate Court Saves Medical Malpractice Case
July 13, 2014
On July 9, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee issued a written opinion in which it upheld the right of the medical malpractice plaintiff to dismiss without prejudice a defective malpractice case and then re-file the Tennessee medical malpractice case with corrections necessary to comply with th[...]
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Milwaukee $25.3M Medical Malpractice Informed Consent Verdict
July 9, 2014
A Milwaukee couple received a $25.3 million Wisconsin medical malpractice verdict on July 7, 2014, after three weeks of trial, as a result of an undiagnosed serious bacterial infection that ultimately led to the woman having all of her limbs amputated. The verdict included $8.2 million for the woman[...]
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