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Connecticut Senate Passes Medical Malpractice Bill To Reform Prior Reforms

April 29, 2012

On April 27, 2012, the Connecticut Senate passed by a margin of 32 to 3 a medical malpractice bill that would reform Connecticut’s medical malpractice reforms enacted in 2005. In particular, the proposed bill would revise the requirement that medical malpractice plaintiffs obtain a written rep[...]

Proposed Change To Maryland Medical Malpractice Law Fails

April 12, 2012

One major complaint about medical malpractice litigation in Maryland and in other states in the U.S. is the costs associated with litigation. And the largest category of expenses related to medical malpractice litigation is the costs of medical experts’ services on both sides of the medical[...]

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want To Restrict Nursing Home Malpractice Damages

January 22, 2012

The Pennsylvania House narrowly passed a bill this week that would restrict the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded as a result of nursing home neglect or abuse. Passed by a vote of 103 to 89, the proposed legislation would restrict the amount of punitive damages to no more than 200[...]

Lower Insurance Reimbursements, Not Medical Malpractice Claims, Causing Doctors To Close Their Practices

January 6, 2012

For several years now, the doctors’ lobbyists and the doctors’ medical malpractice insurance companies have argued that medical malpractice claims and “frivolous lawsuits” are causing doctors to flee their practices. Their argument goes something like this: a patient with a[...]

Newt Gingrich’s Views On Medical Malpractice

December 12, 2011

What Is Newt Gingrich’s Position On Medical Malpractice Claims In The United States? In his opinion published in The New York Times on February 21, 2010, Republican Presidential Hopeful (and current leading Republican contender) Newt Gingrich wrote as follows: CAT scans, blood tests, ultrasou[...]

Texas Governor Rick Perry Enters Presidential Race: What’s The Effect On Medical Malpractice?

August 16, 2011

On Saturday, August 13, 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that he will run for President of the United States as a Republican candidate. As the Republican Governor of Texas for many years (and as the current Governor of Texas), what has he done in Texas regarding medical malpractice and othe[...]

Lessons Learned From The Casey Anthony Jury Trial

July 8, 2011

The jury trial of Casey Anthony involving allegations that she killed her young daughter ended in not guilty findings on the most serious charges just a few days ago. The not guilty findings do not mean that the jury found that Casey Anthony did not kill her daughter, it means that the prosecution[...]

Are Medical Malpractice Lawyers Modern Day Heroes?

May 12, 2011

Medical malpractice lawyers are a unique and driven breed of attorneys: they need to know the law, they need to educate themselves regarding the relevant medicine involved with their cases, they need to have the financial resources to respond effectively against the unlimited resources of medical m[...]

Statistics Regarding Medical Malpractice Litigation

March 25, 2011

In a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2006, it was observed that previous studies had shown that the great majority of patients who sustained a medical injury as a result of medical negligence did not file a claim. In reviewing a random sample of closed medical malpractice [...]

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