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States With The Fewest Medical Malpractice Claims In 2010

September 24, 2011

Yesterday’s blog posting listed the states in the United States with the most (over 100) paid medical malpractice claims for 2010. Today we name the states with fewer than 100 paid medical malpractice claims for 2010. Those states are: Alabama had 49 paid medical malpractice claims in 2010 tha[...]

An Analysis Of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims In The U.S. For 2010

September 23, 2011

An analysis of paid medical malpractice claims in the United States for 2010 based on data from the National Practitioner Data Bank for physicians (MDs), osteopathic physicians (DOs), interns, and residents found that there were 9,894 paid medical malpractice claims. The highest number of paid clai[...]

Medical Malpractice Lawyers Dot Com: Our 200th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting!

September 21, 2011

Today we celebrate with pride our 200th consecutive daily blog posting. From the overwhelming feedback we have received, we take much satisfaction in our mostly informational and hopefully thoughtful postings relevant to medical malpractice and medical care in the United States. The current ass[...]

How Do Medical Malpractice Claims REALLY Affect Doctors?

September 20, 2011

Doctors are constantly complaining that the fear of medical malpractice claims has changed the way they practice medicine, has increased health care costs, and has caused doctors to flee the profession due to high medical malpractice insurance premiums and “frivolous lawsuits.” How have [...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In The U.S. – What Are Some Of The Statistics?

September 19, 2011

One in three Americans have reported that they or a family member had been a victim of medical malpractice. One in five reported that a medical error caused serious health problems or death. The pervasive problem of medical errors resulting in unnecessary additional hospital stays and additional m[...]

Why Do Doctors Hate Medical Malpractice Lawyers So Much?

September 13, 2011

Doctors and lawyers are like the Republicans and the Democrats — doctors can’t stand being in the same room with lawyers but tend to remain somewhat civil when they’re forced to be together. However, once they are amongst themselves, they tend to spew insults (or worse) towards [...]

Medical Malpractice Involving Radiologists Who Interpret Mammograms

September 12, 2011

More than two-thirds of radiologists do at least some breast imaging (mammograms are x-ray images of the breast used to evaluate for signs of breast cancer and other diseases). Studies done in 1995 and 2002 found that delay in breast cancer diagnosis had become the most common basis for medical m[...]

An Analysis Of Wrong Site And Wrong Patient Surgeries

September 8, 2011

A study reported in 2010 of wrong site and wrong patient surgeries was based on an analysis of a database covering the period from January 1, 2002 to June 1, 2008 of a Colorado medical malpractice insurance company that insured approximately 6,000 physicians in Colorado. The database included [...]

Statistics Regarding Neurosurgical Medical Malpractice Claims

September 7, 2011

In a recent review of data from a large national medical malpractice insurance company regarding closed neurosurgical medical malpractice claims made between January 1, 2004 and June 30, 2009, the researchers randomly selected and reviewed 90 cases. The plaintiffs in the 90 cases reviewed involved 5[...]

Florida’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 29, 2011

Florida has enacted a law that places caps on the amount of noneconomic damages that victims of medical malpractice may receive. The Florida law states, in part, as follows: 766.118 Determination of noneconomic damages.—… (b) “Noneconomic damages” means noneconomic damages as define[...]

Some States Have Determined Caps On Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases Are Unconstitutional

August 27, 2011

Even though some states (such as Maryland) have upheld caps on noneconomic damages (and sometimes other damages as well) as constitutional under their respective state constitutions, there are states that have found the caps imposed by their respective state legislatures to be unconstitutional. Th[...]

Maryland’s Cap On Noneconomic Damages Applied In Medical Malpractice Cases Upheld

August 24, 2011

In a case involving the horrific drowning death of a five year old boy in a community swimming pool who experienced excruciating pain and suffering during the approximately two and a half minutes it took him to lose consciousness, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (Maryland’s highest appellate[...]

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