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Illinois Senate Bill Would Expand Nursing Home Resident Forced Labor Restrictions

March 2, 2022

Illinois Senate Bill 1633 provides, in part: “A resident may refuse to perform labor for a facility. Residents shall not perform labor or services for the facility unless consistent with F566 of the State Operations Manual for Long-Term Care Facilities. The activities must be included for the[...]

Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Prenatal Defect Testing Company’s Tests Have High Rate Of False Positives

March 1, 2022

A federal class-action lawsuit filed on February 17, 2022 in the United States District Court Northern District of California against Natera, Inc. alleges that Natera “markets and sells NIPT tests [noninvasive prenatal testing] for pregnant women that screen for various chromosomal and genetic[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Doctors’ Failure To Advise Patient She Had A Brain Tumor

February 28, 2022

A West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit filed on January 21, 2022 in Winchester Circuit Court seeks $3.5 million in compensatory damages from four doctors in West Virginia who allegedly failed to advise her that her MRI brain scan at Winchester Medical Center (WMC) in 2013 showed a brain lesion.[...]

Utah Medical Candor Act

February 27, 2022

Proposed legislation in Utah would enact the Utah Medical Candor Act (“Act”). The Act creates a medical candor process where a health care provider may investigate an injury, or suspected injury, associated with a health care process and may communicate information about the investigatio[...]

California Supreme Court Rules $250K MICRA Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Applies To Physician Assistants

February 26, 2022

In its opinion dated February 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of California (“California Supreme Court”) held that California’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases “applies to a physician assistant who has a legally enforceable agency relationship wit[...]

Nursing Home Costs And Assisted Living Costs In The United States (2021)

February 25, 2022

The national median costs associated with all long-term care service providers increased in 2021 compared to 2020. The cost of Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) has risen an average of 4.65% since 2020, with the annual national median for a private, one-bedroom arrangement at these facilities reporte[...]

Emergency Department Medical Malpractice Statistics

February 24, 2022

A retrospective study of closed medical professional liability (MPL) claims involving adult patients cared for in emergency departments (ED) and urgent care settings from the Medical Professional Liability Association’s Data Sharing Project database from 2001 through 2015 identified 6,779 closed c[...]

Maryland Pharmacists Seek Golden Ticket

February 23, 2022

Proposed legislation in Maryland seeks to add “pharmacists” to the definition of “health care provider” so that their financial interests are protected at the expense of the most seriously harmed victims of their negligence, and so that they also enjoy the significant procedu[...]

Is $250,000 Fair Or Just Compensation For A Child’s Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Due To Medical Negligence?

February 22, 2022

California law limits noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000. That amount has not been increased since California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act {“MICRA”) was signed into law in 1975. Specifically, Civil Code Section 3333.2 limits recovery for noneconomi[...]

Surgery Malpractice Statistics

February 21, 2022

A report dated February 2022 by Coverys entitled “Surgery Risks: Through the Lens of Malpractice Claims” stated: “Each year in the United States, more than 48 million surgical inpatient procedures are performed and more than 35.8 million outpatient surgical procedures occur. The av[...]

Adverse Events In Nursing Homes

February 20, 2022

The term “adverse event” describes harm to a patient or resident as a result of medical care. An adverse event indicates harm to the patient as a result of medical care, including the failure to provide needed care. Adverse events include medical errors but they may also include more general sub[...]

Recall Of Certain Powdered Infant Formula Produced In Abbott Nutrition’s Facility In Sturgis, Michigan

February 19, 2022

The FDA announced on February 17, 2022 that it is investigating consumer complaints of Cronobacter sakazakii and Salmonella Newport infections. All of the cases are reported to have consumed powdered infant formula produced from Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, Michigan facility. As a result of the[...]

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