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5 Things You Should Do If You Are Hurt By Medical Malpractice

March 31, 2014

Being harmed by medical malpractice is similar to being seriously injured as a result of a car accident that is not your fault – you cannot predict when it may happen to you, you are never prepared for the injuries and pain you may suffer due to someone else’s fault, you are left f[...]

Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Continue To Decline As Insurance Companies’ Profits Remain Strong

October 23, 2013

In a recently released survey of more than 35 medical malpractice insurance companies that represent about 75% of the medical malpractice insurance market for physicians in the United States, the results showed that medical malpractice insurance companies continue to enjoy huge profits, with premium[...]

Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors

August 11, 2013

In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic errors is estimated to be between 10% and 15%, with the rate highest for specialties such as emergen[...]

Three Tennessee Physicians Agree To Pay $4.25 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

July 20, 2013

On July 2, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that three former physician-partners of a Tennessee cancer clinic have agreed to pay a total of $4.25 million to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false [...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury’s Flip Flop Causes Problems For Everyone

June 28, 2013

An Ohio medical malpractice verdict rendered by an eight-person jury on May 2, 2013 after a nearly four-week trial is at the center of a controversy regarding whether it is a legitimate verdict and should stand. The controversy involves the fact that six of the jurors (the minimum number of jurors [...]

“We Have Nothing To Fear But …. Ourselves”

June 23, 2013

One of the most memorable of all of the Presidential Inaugural Addresses is from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address that was broadcast on March 4, 1933, when the Great Depression had reached its greatest depth, at which time President-elect Roosevelt pronounced the b[...]

Federal Effort Aimed At Reducing Medical Malpractice Incidents In The U.S.

June 3, 2013

On September 9, 2009, President Obama directed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) to establish an initiative to help U.S. states and health care systems test models to meet the goals of putting patient safety first and working to reduce preventab[...]

Frivolous Fears Of Frivolous Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

May 21, 2013

The rallying call of doctors, hospitals, and their medical malpractice insurance companies and well-paid political lobbyists who fearmonger state and federal legislators with cries that “frivolous” medical malpractice claims are the cause of increasing medical malpractice insurance[...]

4 Myths Regarding Medical Malpractice Litigation In U.S. State Courts

February 1, 2013

Myth: State Courts Are Flooded With Medical Malpractice Cases Research into medical malpractice lawsuits filed in U.S. state courts in 2008 for 12 U.S. states found that medical malpractice cases represented less than 2% of all civil cases filed. In only two states, New York and New Jersey, we[...]

Our 600th Consecutive Daily Blog Post

October 24, 2012

Today we celebrate our 600th consecutive daily blog post. Our milestone makes us proud because we have covered many relevant and timely topics that have provided our readers with information that they could use at the time they needed the information the most. The responses to our blog have been tre[...]

Former Indiana Surgeon Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison

October 20, 2012

On October 12, 2012, a former Indiana surgeon was sentenced by a federal judge to seven years in federal prison, twice the amount of time recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, as a result of his conviction for billing patients and their insurance companies for procedures that he had not per[...]

Washington State Extends Lost Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Cases

September 14, 2012

In a case decided last October by the Supreme Court of Washington (“the Court”), the issue before the Court was whether the “lost chance doctrine” applies in medical malpractice cases where the injuries resulted in disability rather than death (in a 1983 case, the Court h[...]

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