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Every 9 Minutes, A Patient In A U.S. Hospital Dies From Misdiagnosis Or Delayed Diagnosis

November 19, 2018

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine reports that “every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed.” According to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one in ten diagnoses are incorrect and most people will experience an[...]

Our 7th Anniversary Of Posting Daily Medical Malpractice Blogs

March 7, 2018

On March 5, 2018, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com celebrated its seventh anniversary of posting daily medical malpractice blogs. Each of our over 2,500 consecutive daily blog postings can be searched by word or phrase. medicalmalpracticelawyers.com states on its website: “Medical malpractice law[...]

Florida Supreme Court Rules Unconstitutional Requirement That Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs Authorize Ex-Parte Communications With Non-Party Medical Providers

November 13, 2017

The Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) ruled in its 4-to-3 decision on November 9, 2017 that the amendment to Florida’s medical malpractice statute requiring plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases to authorize medical malpractice defendants’ attorneys to spea[...]

New Study Finds Rude Or Disrespectful Surgeons Associated With More Surgical And Medical Complications

February 19, 2017

A study published in the medical journal JAMA Surgery on February 15, 2017 found that patients whose surgeons were associated with higher numbers of unsolicited patient observations in the 24 months prior to their operation experienced more surgical and medical complications than did patients receiv[...]

Total Medical Malpractice Payouts In U.S. Increased In 2015 For Third Consecutive Year

August 4, 2016

It has been reported that the total medical malpractice payouts in the United States reached $3.95 billion in 2015, which was an increase of 1.68% from 2014. The Northeast region of the United States accounted for 45.93% of all medical malpractice payouts in the United States in 2015, which was an i[...]

Today’s 1,600th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

July 8, 2015

Today’s blog posting is our 1,600th consecutive daily posting. In reflecting back on our previous 1,599 medical malpractice lawyers’ blog postings, we note several underlying trends: Medical Malpractice Lawyers Are The Dedicated Warriors For Medical Malpractice Victims We have reported[...]

Today Begins Our 5th Year Of Daily Blog Postings

March 6, 2015

When we began posting daily blogs on March 5, 2011, we never imagined that we would be posting blogs every day, without missing a single day, for more than four years. We never considered whether we would run out of news or topics of importance to medical malpractice victims, medical malpracti[...]

New York Surgeon Sued For Medical Malpractice For The 12th Time Since 1996

December 6, 2014

On October 22, 2014, a New York medical malpractice lawyer filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against an upstate New York surgeon. The lawsuit was the second medical malpractice case filed against the same surgeon in 2014. There are at least three other New York medical malpractice cases presently [...]

Medical Malpractice Payments In The U.S. Were At Continuing Record Low For 2013

October 29, 2014

Earlier this month, Public Citizen, the well-respected national non-profit organization that represents consumer interests with more than 300,000 members and supporters, issued its report entitled, “Medical Malpractice Payments Remained At Historic Low In 2013 Despite Slight Uptick,” th[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Insurer Announces Large Dividend And Rate Reduction

August 12, 2014

Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine (“Medical Mutual”), the dominant medical malpractice insurance company in Maine that insures approximately 3,000 Maine physicians as well as more than 20 Maine hospitals (about 63% of the medical malpractice insurance market in Maine), announced[...]

Top 5 Complaints That Patients Have About Their Doctors

July 30, 2014

Here they are: 1. MY DOCTOR MAKES ME WAIT: HE ACTS LIKE HIS TIME IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY TIME. This is perhaps the number one complaint that patients have about their doctors: the patient shows up on time for his/her appointment but then finds out that the doctor has double- or triple-booked appoi[...]

U.S. Senator Boxer’s Office Issues “Medical Errors” Report

May 4, 2014

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Office recently issued a report entitled “Medical Errors” that discusses “the most common and devastating medical errors.” In July 2013, Senator Boxer contacted Partnership for Patients (a public-private partnership funded through the Affor[...]

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