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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[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Appellate Decision On Burden Of Proof

September 30, 2012

A decision was reached on September 24, 2012 in a New Jersey medical malpractice case that was appealed from the Superior Court of New Jersey. The case involved the issue of whether the trial judge properly permitted the burden of proof in the medical malpractice case to shift from the medical malpr[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Medicaid Recovery Law Unconstitutional

March 28, 2012

Sometimes when there is a medical malpractice settlement, the medical malpractice claimant’s medical bills related to the medical malpractice were paid by Medicaid. Under federal law, states participating in the Medicaid program are required (with some exceptions) to seek reimbursement for me[...]

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[...]

When Should You Contact A Medical Malpractice Lawyer?

June 22, 2011

When should you contact a medical malpractice lawyer? We at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com get this question asked in many different forms and pretty often. The conversation typically starts with the statement, “I don’t know if have a medical malpractice claim but…” Some of[...]

USE OF THE INTERNET TO RESEARCH HEALTHCARE INFORMATION

March 7, 2011

According to the Bupa Health Pulse 2010 international healthcare survey of over 12,000 people in 12 countries, nearly half (46%) of people who use the internet to search for health information do so to self-diagnose. The survey further notes that 68% of the respondents used the internet to find i[...]

HOW OFTEN ARE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS MADE?

March 5, 2011

It is often difficult to find accurate information regarding medical malpractice claims in the United States due to misinformation. However, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), which is part of the Data Bank, is a confidential information clearinghouse created by Congress to improve health[...]

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