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Unnecessary Stent Claims

January 13, 2013

Stents are mesh tubes that hold blocked arteries open in order to improve blood flow. Stents are typically recommended for patients whose cardiac arteries are more than 50% or 70% blocked (U.S. guidelines state that an artery should be 50% blocked with cholesterol plaque before the disease is co[...]

Mississippi Appeals Court Affirms $390,000 Verdict For Misdiagnosed Stroke

January 12, 2013

On September 11, 2012, the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi (“Appeals Court”) affirmed a judge’s verdict in the amount of $390,000 in favor of James Taylor, who was 57-years-old when he suffered a stroke that a physician in a hospital emergency room failed to timely [...]

SMART Act Signed Into Law

January 11, 2013

On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed into law the bipartisan SMART Act (Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act, H.R. 1845, Title II), which helps senior citizens and disabled persons obtain timely, clear, and definitive information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serv[...]

Nursing Home Negligence: Is It Medical Malpractice Or Ordinary Negligence?

January 10, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Tennessee (“Tennessee Supreme Court”) in 2011, the issue was whether the negligence claims of the estate of a deceased nursing home resident against the nursing home and its corporate owners were medical malpractice claims, ordinary negligence [...]

Medical Malpractice Defense Expenses Rising Faster Than Settlement Amounts

January 9, 2013

Medical malpractice insurance companies are responsible to pay not only the amount of settlements reached in medical malpractice cases and the amount of judgments entered against their insureds, but also the expenses in defending the medical malpractice claims made against their insureds. The so-cal[...]

VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Claim Settled For $500,000

January 8, 2013

The VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a widow for the death of her husband as a result of alleged medical malpractice for $500,000, which has been approved by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio. The medical malpr[...]

Illinois Bill To Adjust Cap On Medical Malpractice Attorneys Fees Passes In Senate

January 7, 2013

Senate Floor Amendment 2 to Illinois House Bill 5151, which passed in the Illinois Senate on January 3, 2013 on a 36-15 vote, would cap attorneys’ fees in medical malpractice cases at one-third of a plaintiff’s award and would bar lawyers from petitioning the court for higher fees in medical[...]

Nurse Practitioner Malpractice And Physician Assistant Malpractice Claims

January 6, 2013

There are 86,500 certified physician assistants (“PAs”) in the United States currently, which is a 100% increase from ten years ago. The number of nurse practitioners (“NPs”) has increased from 111,000 in 2003 to about 155,000 currently. PAs are allowed to prescribe medicat[...]

Medication Mistake Leads To Illinois Medical Malpractice Claim

January 5, 2013

On January 2, 2013, a medical malpractice claim was filed in Illinois against a nursing home in which it is alleged that medication mistakes led to a resident’s death. The medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the wrong dosage of medication and the improper combination of medications by two [...]

Physician Monitoring Programs Reduce Medical Malpractice Claims By 20%

January 4, 2013

When physicians suffer from alcohol abuse, drug dependency problems, or mental health issues, they are often referred to physician health programs (“PHPs”) that provide monitoring of their medical practices while they undergo necessary treatment, either voluntarily or involuntarily. [...]

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Claims

January 3, 2013

Many people are under the impression that Lyme disease is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and that Lyme disease misdiagnosis cases are also of recent vintage. However, Lyme disease misdiagnosis claims have been around for over a decade and appear to us to be increasing in frequency,[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Reduces $10 Million Jury Award To $300,000 For Paralyzed Man

January 2, 2013

A 36-year-old man was left paralyzed from the chest down due to medical malpractice, as determined by a Colorado medical malpractice jury that awarded him $10 million for the noneconomic damages that he sustained as a result of medical negligence after a three-week trial. The total medical malprac[...]

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