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The Impact Of Anesthesia Medical Malpractice On Practitioners

March 13, 2012

In an article published in the March, 2012 issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the results of a survey sent to 1,200 randomly selected members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, of which 659 completed and returned the survey, found that 84% of the respondents had been [...]

C. Difficile Infections

March 11, 2012

C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]

We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!

March 4, 2012

Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]

Teva Pharmaceuticals To Pay $285 Million To Settle Nevada Hepatitis C Claims

February 23, 2012

The giant international pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceuticals (“Teva”) has agreed to pay $285 million to settle approximately 120 product liability lawsuits against it that include the claims of 150 former patients at a southern Nevada endoscopy center who supposedly contracted[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs

February 19, 2012

A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]

Proposed Changes To Florida’s Medical Malpractice Law Harms Malpractice Victims

February 18, 2012

The Republican-led Florida Legislature is considering amendments to Florida’s medical malpractice law to make it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to win their medical malpractice cases and would also allow medical malpractice defendants’ lawyers to speak with the victi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Case: From Medical Heroes To Medical Villains

February 16, 2012

In a medical malpractice case decided on February 10, 2012 by the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland’s highest appellate court), the Court of Appeals (“Court”) upheld a Maryland medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $3.6 million in favor of the plaintiff as a result o[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Gallbladder Surgery Resulting In Death

February 6, 2012

In 2008, a 60-year-old Korean immigrant who was the primary caregiver for his mentally ill adult daughter was admitted into a New York hospital for surgery to remove his inflamed gallbladder due to gallstones. The surgery was canceled the first day because the man’s surgery was not put on the[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Verdict For Inmate Who Had To Pull His Own Tooth

February 5, 2012

On January 24, 2012, a federal jury in New Mexico awarded a substantial amount to a man who spent two years in solitary confinement in jail after his arrest for DWI. He was placed in a padded cell at the time of his arrest because he was considered to be a suicide risk. Three days […][...]

West VA Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation

February 1, 2012

When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would have anticipated would be that the man would never make it home again. Inst[...]

Death Of Maryland Medical Malpractice Victim Does Not Affect Future Medical Expenses Award

January 31, 2012

Maryland’s highest appellate court decided on January 27, 2012 that a jury’s award of future medical expenses to a medical malpractice victim is not affected when the victim later dies. In the Maryland medical malpractice case, the parents of a newborn filed a medical malpractice claim[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In Other Countries

January 27, 2012

While we have been blogging about medical malpractice issues in the United States daily for almost one year, we thought we would broaden our horizons to see how other countries may address medical malpractice claims. We started to investigate medical malpractice cases in other Western countries and [...]

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