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[...]
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Is This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death
April 10, 2012
One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a living liver donor died on the operating room table while giving the gift of life to his brother-in-l[...]
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Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection
April 9, 2012
A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]
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A Study Of Defense Costs For Medical Malpractice Claims
April 7, 2012
An article appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine on April 5, 2012 analyzed 26,853 medical malpractice claims that were closed between 1995 and 2005 (“closed claims” include medical malpractice claims that resulted in an indemnity payment (a payment made to a medical malprac[...]
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Autism Rates In U.S. Skyrocketed In Last 10 Years
March 31, 2012
What Is Autism? According to the National Institute of Mental Health, autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (ASD), that includes a wide range of symptoms that may result in mild impairment to severe disability. There are five pervasive d[...]
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Are Caps On Noneconomic Damages Fair?
March 25, 2012
Many U.S. states have enacted laws that place a cap (limit) on the amount of noneconomic damages (such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, etc.) that medical malpractice victims may recover from medical malpractice defendants who provided medical care that failed to meet the requi[...]
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
March 19, 2012
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]
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