Harming Victims Of Medical Negligence
October 11, 2013
No one wants or expects to become the victim of medical malpractice. No one wants to live the rest of their life with unrelenting pain, devastating disabilities, and the lack of enjoyment of life solely because a medical provider made a mistake, caused an error, was careless, was inattentive, beca[...]
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5 Medical Malpractice Misperceptions
October 1, 2013
What constitutes medical malpractice and how medical malpractice is defined may differ from state to state in the United States. In general terms, medical malpractice occurs when a medical provider fails to provide care consistent with the required medical standard of care under the circumstances [...]
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5 Behaviors To Be Avoided By Medical Malpractice Victims
September 26, 2013
When medical negligence causes serious injuries or other significant harms to patients, many of the victims of medical malpractice (and their families) seek to determine if they are entitled to be compensated for their losses under their state medical malpractice laws. The road ahead for medical [...]
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5 Common Mistakes Made By Medical Malpractice Victims
September 20, 2013
Medical malpractice victims in the United States are too often unpleasantly surprised when they discover that they made their own mistakes that could cause their medical malpractice claims to become unviable. Once the unintentional mistake is made, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to reme[...]
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Texas Doctor Defending First Of 18 Medical Malpractice Cases
September 19, 2012
A Wichita Falls, Texas doctor is presently involved in jury selection in one of at least eighteen local medical malpractice cases filed against him. And medical malpractice claims are not the only professional claims that must concern him — the FBI raided the doctor’s office in April, 20[...]
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Texas Medical Malpractice Reform (Unintended) Results
October 11, 2011
Under Governor Rick Perry, Texas has enacted some of the most draconian medical malpractice “reforms” whereby the innocent victims of medical malpractice negligence are highly restricted in the claims they can bring against negligent doctors and other Texas health care providers and in t[...]
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Drug Shortages In The U.S.
October 1, 2011
The FDA has reported that shortages of drugs in the United States during 2010 set an all-time record and that there have been increasing shortages during 2011. The shortage of sterile injectables represented 74% of the drug shortages during 2010: 54% of the shortages in sterile injectables during [...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims In Iowa — Official Report
May 29, 2011
According to the Iowa Medical Malpractice Annual Report for Calendar Year 2009, the average payments of benefits plus allocated loss adjustment expenses for all closed claims was about $128,000 for 2009, and the average incurred losses and allocated loss adjustment expenses for all open claims was [...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims In West Virginia — Official Report
May 27, 2011
According to the State of West Virginia Medical Malpractice Report from November, 2009, medical malpractice insurance companies had an operating profit in West Virginia from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2008. As of 2009, West Virginia averaged 280 malpractice claims per year (down from 285 in 20[...]
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Laws Limiting Physicians’ Self-Referral
May 15, 2011
Limitations on physician self-referrals were enacted into law in 1989 under the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, commonly referred to as the “Stark law.” The Stark law, as amended, and its implementing regulations, prohibit certain physician self-referrals for designated health services (̶[...]
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