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Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer? Part I

November 1, 2018

We receive calls all the time from potential medical malpractice victims throughout the United States complaining that they have been injured due to medical malpractice but they have been unable to find a local medical malpractice lawyer to take their case. They are often frustrated, and they ask if[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Rejects Wide-Ranging Tort Reform Ballot Measure As Unconstitutional

October 31, 2018

The Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) issued an opinion on October 18, 2018 in which it held that a legislative initiative to submit for voter approval wide-ranging tort reforms on the November 6, 2018 general election ballot was unconstitutional. In 2017, the Arkansas[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Applies Continuous Course Of Treatment Doctrine In Reviving Medical Malpractice Case

October 30, 2018

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) applied the continuous course of treatment doctrine in its opinion filed on September 18, 2018 in reviving a North Carolina medical malpractice case in which the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant obstetrician g[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Rules Expert Opinion Necessary In Hospital Medical Malpractice Case

October 29, 2018

The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District (“Missouri Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 16, 2018 that the Missouri medical malpractice plaintiff was required to produce expert testimony to establish causation in a Missouri medical malpractice case, and therefore [...]

$350,000 Dental Malpractice Verdict In Florida

October 28, 2018

Earlier this month, a Florida dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $350,418.90. The plaintiff, a teacher and single mother, alleged that the defendant dentist committed dental malpractice with regard to a three-tooth bridge procedure that the defend[...]

New Study Finds C-Section Deliveries Nearly Doubled From 2000 To 2015

October 27, 2018

A study published in the medical journal The Lancet on October 13, 2018 found that Cesarean section deliveries (“CS”) nearly doubled worldwide from 2000 to 2015, based on data from 169 countries that include 98.4% of the world’s births. The study estimated that 29.7 million births [...]

$10M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Family Physician For Preventable Suicide

October 26, 2018

Earlier this month, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant family medicine doctor whom the jury found to have negligently treated a patient who had become increasing depressed and anxious, leading to the patient committing suicide, which the jury determined wa[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reinstates $3.7M Gross Negligence Verdict Against Baltimore EMTs

October 25, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in its unreported opinion filed on October 1, 2018, reinstated a $3,707,000 verdict in favor of the estate of a man who died from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) that the Baltimote medical malpractice jury had [...]

Six Children Have Died From Adenovirus At New Jersey Nursing Home

October 24, 2018

The New Jersey Department of Health (“Department”) announced on October 23, 2018 that six children in a New Jersey nursing and rehabilitation facility have died from an adenovirus that has sickened eighteen children. The New Jersey nursing home cares for long-term-care pediatric patients[...]

Study Finds Most U.S. Physicians Dissatisfied With Their Profession

October 23, 2018

The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, recently published its 2018 The Future Of Healthcare report regarding its survey of more than 3,400 physicians in the United States, finding that 7 out of 10 physicians are unwilling to recommend healt[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Refuses To Compel Arbitration In Nursing Home Death Case

October 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on October 5, 2018 that the daughter of a resident of the defendant nursing home did not have the authority to bind her father to the arbitration agreement contained in the nursing home admission documents, [...]

BAAPS Reports Brazilian Butt Lifts Have Highest Death Rates Of All Cosmetic Surgeries In U.K.

October 21, 2018

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (“BAAPS”) warned on October 4, 2018 that Brazilian Buttock Lift (“BBL”) procedures have the highest death rate of all cosmetic surgery procedures (estimated to be as high as 1 in 3,000 operations) in the United Kingdom, du[...]

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