At the time this is being written, the designation of the coronavirus outbreak as a world-wide pandemic is less than a week old. How the coronavirus pandemic will affect the world population, world economies, and the everyday lives of everyone,… Read More
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U.S. Expands Efforts To Fight Opioid Epidemic To Unscrupulous Dispensing Pharmacies
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed on February 8, 2019 a civil complaint filed in the Middle District of Tennessee against two pharmacies, their owner, and three pharmacists, to stop them from dispensing controlled substance medications, including powerful opioids that… Read More
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$8M Verdict Against Medical Malpractice Lawyer
On July 25, 2018, a jury in Arizona awarded $6,232,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $1,768,000 in punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff surgeon in his lawsuit against a Las Vegas medical malpractice lawyer and his law firm… Read More
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Survey Of Physicians Finds They Believe Unnecessary Medical Care Driven By Medical Malpractice Concerns
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine surveyed physicians between January 22, 2014 and March 8, 2014, and on September 6, 2017 published their findings from the responses from 2,106 physicians. The researchers found that those physicians believe… Read More
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California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Absent Cardiac Surgeon
A California medical malpractice lawsuit was filed late last month in the Superior Court of California for Fresno County that alleges that a well-known California cardiac surgeon who performed open heart surgery on a patient on April 2, 2012 to treat his ascending… Read More
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Minnesota Inmate Died Due To Medical Negligence
A Minnesota inmate approaching the end of his four-month incarceration due to his parole violation died as a result of medical negligence, according to a federal medical malpractice lawsuit filed by his family on January 3, 2014. The inmate had sought medical care… Read More
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Weird Florida Medical Malpractice Settlement Situation
A Florida appellate court on December 27, 2013 decided a case involving the medical malpractice settlement on behalf of the young malpractice victim (the parents’ medical malpractice complaint alleged that a Florida doctor had failed to timely diagnose and treat their son’s eye… Read More
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Study Shows Conservative Treatment Just As Good As Surgery For Certain Knee Pain
In a Finnish study appearing in the December 26, 2013 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that the outcomes for study participants who had arthroscopic partial meniscectomy were no better than for study participants who had a “sham” surgical procedure. All of… Read More
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A Nevada Case Of Medical Malpractice Fraud
A Las Vegas, Nevada lawyer wanted to handle medical malpractice cases and wished to stack the odds in his favor so that he would receive substantial settlements in the medical malpractice cases he handled — in doing so, he wrongfully put his financial interests… Read More
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White Lab Coats Can’t Turn Bad Doctors Into Competent Doctors
One patient who was horribly injured and disfigured as a result of medical negligence that bordered on medical recklessness was asked by her medical malpractice lawyer during their initial meeting how she chose the particular doctor that caused her to suffer… Read More
