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Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Misdiagnosis Led to Death

August 21, 2014

On June 23, 2014, a Louisiana mother filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a local hospital and two physicians, alleging that the misdiagnosis of her daughter led to her untimely death. The plaintiff seeks in her wrongful death lawsuit unspecified compensatory damages that include funeral expe[...]

Massachusetts Appeals Court Overturns Nursing Home Arbitration Win

August 20, 2014

The Appeals Court of Massachusetts (“Appeals Court”) issued an opinion on August 18, 2014 that overturned a trial court’s decision that a claim against a nursing home for the beating and strangulation death of a 96-year-old resident by her 97-year-old roommate was required to be a[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.8M In Death Case

August 19, 2014

On August 12, 2014, an Ohio medical malpractice jury, after a two-week trial, awarded the estate of a 30-year-old man who never woke up after surgery, $900,000 for loss of companionship and $900,000 for metal anguish, for a total of $1.8 million. The medical malpractice defendants against whom the [...]

VA Medical Malpractice Statistics

August 18, 2014

The Veterans Health Administration is one of the largest health care providers in the United States, providing care to more than 8.6 million of the 22 million veterans through 152 VA hospitals and 817 community-based outpatient clinics (as of March 30, 2012). The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Death Due To Pressure Ulcers

August 17, 2014

The estate of a man and the man’s surviving wife have filed a nursing home negligence case in state court in Ohio seeking in excess of $25,000 against the nursing home where the man had been a resident in order to receive rehabilitative services following a fractured patella. The nursing ho[...]

Feds Put Brakes On Some States Medical Malpractice Reporting Loopholes

August 16, 2014

In a decision issued on May 22, 2014, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, formally determined that the efforts by Oregon and Massachusetts to circumvent requirements to report medical malpractice payments to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB[...]

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[...]

MediBid.com: Got Cash To Pay For A Doctor? Let Doctors Bid For Your Business.

August 14, 2014

In a nod to consumers who are increasingly using online services to buy just about whatever they need (or desire), a website called MediBid.com offers a service connecting patients who are willing to pay cash, with doctors and health care facilities who are willing to bid for their business. Abou[...]

What Is California Proposition 46?

August 13, 2014

The so-called California Proposition 46 (“Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap and Drug Testing of Doctors Initiative”) is on the November 4, 2014 ballot in California after being certified on May 15, 2014 by the California Secretary of State. The proponents of California 46 had submitted ap[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Insurer Announces Large Dividend And Rate Reduction

August 12, 2014

Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (“Medical Mutual”), the dominant medical malpractice insurance company in Maine that insures approximately 3,000 Maine physicians as well as more than 20 Maine hospitals (about 63% of the medical malpractice insurance market in Maine), announced[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed By Kidney Donor

August 11, 2014

When a Texas grandmother needed a kidney transplant, her granddaughter was found to be an appropriate kidney donor. With the love between a grandmother and her granddaughter as the sole motivating factor, the kidney transplant surgery took place on February 1, 2012, with the granddaughter donat[...]

South Carolina Supreme Court Favors Substance Over Procedure In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 10, 2014

On July 23, 2014, the South Carolina Supreme Court stayed consistent with its prior decisions in medical malpractice cases that permit medical malpractice cases to proceed on the merits rather than to affirm unwarranted dismissals based on technical noncompliance with the medical malpractice statu[...]

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