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Bed Bugs Impact On Public Health

March 7, 2014

The CDC reports that while bed bug populations in the United States dropped dramatically during the mid-20th century, the U.S. is one of many countries now experiencing an alarming resurgence in the population of bed bugs. The cause of the resurgence in bed bug populations is unknown, but it is su[...]

Medicare Statistics Regarding Nursing Home Adverse Events And Associated Costs

March 6, 2014

In its February 2014 report entitled, “Adverse Events in Skilled Nursing Facilities: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) reported on its medical records review of 362 Medicare [...]

Statistics Regarding Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements

March 5, 2014

Nursing homes are increasingly incorporating arbitration agreements into admission documents signed by incoming residents that require claims arising out of the care (or the lack of care) at the nursing home to be arbitrated instead of being filed in court and tried before a jury. By agreeing ah[...]

$7.5M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For A Man And His Wife

March 4, 2014

A Jefferson County, Alabama medical malpractice jury has awarded a 55-year-old man and his wife $7.5 million in their medical malpractice case that alleged that a local hospital was negligent in its care and treatment of the man and that its negligence led to the man’s permanent incontinence [...]

$4M Virginia Medical Mapractice Verdict Against Family Practitioner

March 3, 2014

On February 27, 2014, a Lynchburg, Virginia medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict in the amount of $4 million against a family practitioner who the jury found to have been negligent in his treatment of his patient in 2007 that resulted in the loss of a large portion of the patient’[...]

Maryland Senate Bill To Establish Birth Injury Fund To Be Studied By Task Force

March 2, 2014

Maryland Senate Bill 798, which would have established the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund (“Fund”) for the “adjudication and compensation of a claimant for a birth-related neurological injury,” was put on hold when its sponsor in the Maryland Senate added an amendment[...]

Kansas Senate Seeks Medical Malpractice Cap Increase And Other Reforms

March 1, 2014

The Kansas Senate has taken the initial step to increase the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in all personal injury actions, including medical malpractice cases, that was enacted in 1988 but had not increased since then despite inflation. The original Kansas cap on noneconomic damages in medic[...]

$9.1M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Broken Ankle

February 28, 2014

Earlier this month, a New York State Supreme Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $9.1 million, which included $2.8 million for economic losses (past and future medical expenses and lost wages), $6 million for noneconomic d[...]

Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2013

February 27, 2014

On February 19, 2014, a large medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to more than 13,000 health care providers in the United States published its annual report regarding medical malpractice payout statistics for the United States f[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.3M For Scarring After Surgical Infection

February 26, 2014

On February 18, 2014, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded a now 43-year-old woman $1.3 million for her injuries and damages following her elective surgery. The jury deliberated for less than six hours after a ten-day trial before awarding $500,000 for the woman’s pain, suffering, ment[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against ER Doc For Death of 6-Year-old

February 25, 2014

On February 24, 2014, a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against an emergency room physician and others for the death of a 6-year-old who had been misdiagnosed in the emergency room, was sent home, and died four hours later. The parents’ medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the [...]

California Appellate Court Holds That Biliary Stent Is A Foreign Object

February 24, 2014

On May 24, 1996, surgeons implanted a stent in the plaintiff’s bile duct during emergency abdominal surgery, following the man suffering a serious gunshot wound. The plaintiff alleged that he was unaware of the implanted stent until August 10, 2010, when he sought medical treatment fo[...]

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