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Multiple State Pharmacy Boards Are Warning That Physicians Are Hoarding Touted Coronavirus Drugs For Themselves And Their Families

March 29, 2020

While many healthcare providers throughout the United States are making valiant efforts to help diagnose and treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, often at risk to themselves and potentially for their families, there are a growing number of physicians in the United States who are writing prescripti[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Reinstates Lawsuit To Determine If Ordinary Negligence Or Medical Negligence Injured Plaintiff

March 28, 2020

In a case where the plaintiff alleged that a camera used during robotic surgery fell on her and injured her, the Connecticut Appellate Court stated in its decision released on March 3, 2020, “Depending on the factual circumstances, some of the allegations might support a conclusion of ordinary[...]

Liability For Coronavirus Nursing Home Deaths

March 27, 2020

Nursing homes in the United States are on the forefront of taking care of those most susceptible to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: nursing home residents tend to be elderly (65 and older) with underlying health conditions and compromised immune systems that cause the coronavirus to w[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Negligence Led To 19-Year-Old’s Death From Aortic Dissection

March 26, 2020

The parents of a 19-year-old who died from an aortic dissection filed a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore on March 20, 2020 against a hospital located in Western Maryland and a physician and a physician’s assistant working in the hospital’s[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Affirms Gross Negligence Finding In Medical Malpractice Case

March 25, 2020

The Massachusetts Appeals Court, in its opinion filed on February 26, 2020, stated in a hiatal hernia surgical repair medical malpractice wrongful death case: “In denying the defendants’ request for new trial or judgment notwithstanding the verdict, the judge found that the jury’s [...]

Coronavirus And Medical Malpractice Statutes Of Limitations

March 24, 2020

As the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the United States continues to rise, and our community leaders rise to the challenge of timely and appropriately responding to the ever-changing pandemic, we note that some states are beginning to close courts as they order their residents to [...]

Tennessee Supreme Court Holds Statute Requiring Courts To Order Ex Parte Interviews Of Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs’ Non-Party Treating Healthcare Providers Is Unconstitutional

March 23, 2020

In its opinion filed on February 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Supreme Court”) held: “By removing any and all discretion from the trial courts in the decision to grant protective orders, the legislature, in its enactment of Tennessee Code Annotat[...]

CDC Report: One Washington State Nursing Home’s Experience With COVID-19

March 22, 2020

The CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (March 18, 2020) entitled, “COVID-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility — King County, Washington, February 27–March 9, 2020” stated: “Introduction of COVID-19 into a long-term residential care facility in Washington r[...]

Is Purell Effective In Preventing Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

March 21, 2020

The FDA, in a warning letter dated January 17, 2020 addressed to GOJO Industries, which markets Purell, addressed the FDA’s concerns regarding “marketing of the PURELL® Healthcare Advanced Hand Sanitizer product line that includes the over-the-counter (OTC) drug products “PURELL® Hea[...]

Study: Surgery Is The Second Most Common Cause For Medical Malpractice Claims

March 20, 2020

A study published on February 25, 2020 by the medical malpractice insurer 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 ou[...]

What Medical Malpractice Claims May Arise From The Coronavirus Pandemic?

March 19, 2020

At the time this is being written, the designation of the coronavirus outbreak as a world-wide pandemic is less than a week old. How the coronavirus pandemic will affect the world population, world economies, and the everyday lives of everyone, whether infected with the coronavirus or not, is a big [...]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) And Medical Malpractice: FDA’s Warning Regarding Fraudulent Prevention/Treatment Claims

March 18, 2020

The FDA issued a press release on March 9, 2020 stating, in part: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued warning letters to seven companies for selling fraudulent COVID-19 products. These products are unapproved drugs that pose significant ri[...]

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