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Maryland Medical Malpractice Senate Bill Would Provide Maryland Health Care Providers Sued For Malpractice With An Unfair Advantage

February 17, 2019

Maryland Senate Bill 323, introduced on January 30, 2019, if enacted into law, would provide Maryland medical providers who are sued for medical negligence with an advantage over their injured victims. Senate Bill 323, with changes to existing law in capital letters, states: Article – Courts and J[...]

$4.8M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed And Untreated Spinal Infection Leading To Paralysis

February 16, 2019

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife in excess of $4.8 million on January 25, 2019 after a two-week trial and three-and-a-half hours of deliberations. The jury awarded $183,673 per year for the next 18 years for the man’s medical expenses, $1.23 million for past a[...]

CMS Responds To Study Critical Of Association Between Nursing Home Compare And Nursing Home Safety

February 15, 2019

A study published in the November 2018 edition of Health Affairs looked at the association between performance on a set of patient safety measures and star ratings of nursing homes on CMS’ Nursing Home Compare (NHC). The authors concluded: “Although Nursing Home Compare captures some asp[...]

89-Year-Old Connecticut Woman Sues EMTs For Fall From Stretcher

February 14, 2019

An 89-year-old woman in Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against the EMTs that responded to her home and were transporting her to the hospital when they allegedly failed to secure her to the stretcher, thereby leading to her fall to the ground. The elderly woman claims that she was severely injured a[...]

Texas Is Worst U.S. State For Quality Of Nursing Home Care, Hawaii Is The Best

February 13, 2019

The CDC reports that there are about 15,600 nursing homes in the United States, with 1.7 million licensed beds that are occupied by 1.4 million patients. On average, 79% of the U.S. nursing home beds are occupied every day, and the average U.S. nursing home has 89 residents on a daily basis. On aver[...]

Pathology Lab Settles False Claims Act Allegations For $63.5M

February 12, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 30, 2019 that pathology laboratory company Inform Diagnostics has agreed to pay $63.5 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians. Inform Diagnostics,[...]

Almost Half Of U.S. Adults Have Cardiovascular Disease

February 11, 2019

The American Heart Association (AHA) announced on January 31, 2019 the findings of its Heart and Stroke Statistics — 2019 Update that was published in its journal Circulation. The researchers found that 48 percent of all adults in the United States (121.5 million in 2016) have some type of cardiov[...]

Texas Supreme Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict, Finds Expert’s Opinion Not Conclusory

February 10, 2019

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the plaintiff’s medical expert’s opinion offered during a Texas medical malpractice jury trial was not “conclusory” and therefore upheld the jury’s verdict [...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Finds No Error In Instructing Medical Malpractice Jury As To General Negligence

February 9, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it gave standard general instructions on negligence and foreseeability in addition[...]

Essure No Longer Sold In U.S. After December 31, 2018, But FDA Oversight Continues

February 8, 2019

In July 2018, Bayer, which manufactures the Essure device that is intended to prevent pregnancy, announced that Essure will no longer be sold or distributed in the United States after December 31, 2018, citing the declining annual number of implantations. Even though Essure is no longer sold, the FD[...]

$2.5 Billion Recovered From Health Care False Claims Act Cases In Fiscal Year 2018

February 7, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on December 21, 2018 that the Department obtained more than $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018. Recoveries since 1986, when Congress [...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Mississippi Medical Malpractice Case

February 6, 2019

The Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) in its opinion handed down on January 24, 2019 reaffirmed Mississippi’s loss of chance doctrine in Mississippi medical malpractice cases, which requires a plaintiff to show that proper treatment would have provided the [...]

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