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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 […][...]

Report On Vermont’s Medical Malpractice Proposed Reforms

February 4, 2012

On January 30, 2012, the “Medical Malpractice Reforms Report and Proposal of the [Vermont] Secretary of Administration” (“Report”) was forwarded to the Vermont Legislature to address medical malpractice reform issues/proposals in Vermont. First, Some Vermont Medical Malpract[...]

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[...]

Doctor Still Practicing Medicine Despite Dozens Of Medical Malpractice Claims

January 28, 2012

Despite having dozens of medical malpractice claims filed against him for alleged substandard medical care provided in jails throughout the Midwest of the United States, an Illinois doctor and his company that have contracts to provide medical care in many correctional facilities, including those o[...]

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 [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman’s Blindness

January 25, 2012

On January 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of a 67-year-old Maryland woman who suffered near-total blindness allegedly as a result of medical malpractice by her ophthalmologist. The verdict will be reduced to $620,000 due to the [...]

Mississippi Medical Malpractice Judgment For Botched Abortion

January 21, 2012

Earlier this month, a Mississippi judge entered a default judgment in a medical malpractice case in favor of a woman and her husband for the alleged injuries sustained by the woman when the doctor performing her abortion suddenly stopped the procedure and sent her home, despite the woman h[...]

Did Utah Medical Malpractice Lead to Murder?

January 15, 2012

The conservator for the two very young sons of a man who shot and killed his wife (the sons’ mother) in a church parking lot filed a medical malpractice case against the nurse practitioner and others who prescribed multiple anti-depressants and mood-altering drugs to the man that the medical [...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Death Due To Negligent Cardiac Procedure

January 9, 2012

Cardiac catheterization, which involves the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or blood vessel of the heart for either diagnostic and/or treatment purposes, has become so common throughout the United States that doctors who perform the procedure and patients who receive the procedure often cons[...]

Lower Insurance Reimbursements, Not Medical Malpractice Claims, Causing Doctors To Close Their Practices

January 6, 2012

For several years now, the doctors’ lobbyists and the doctors’ medical malpractice insurance companies have argued that medical malpractice claims and “frivolous lawsuits” are causing doctors to flee their practices. Their argument goes something like this: a patient with a[...]

California Doctor Discipline Is Dismal

January 3, 2012

While doctors relentlessly attack medical malpractice lawsuits as “frivolous,” it is a statistical fact that doctors with more than one medical malpractice claim or disciplinary action are responsible for a disproportionate number of medical malpractice claims. Therefore, doctors with di[...]

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