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Communication Failures Involved In 49% Of Medical Malpractice Claims

October 5, 2022

Communication Failures Involved In 49% Of Medical Malpractice Claims: A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Patient Safety reported: “Communication failures were identified in 49% of claims. Claims with communication failures were significantly less likely to be dropped, denied[...]

Can You Record An Independent Medical Examination In A Medical Malpractice Case?

September 23, 2022

Often times in medical malpractice and other personal injury cases that are in litigation, the defense requests that the plaintiff submit to an “independent” medical examination (“IME”) by a health care professional chosen by the defense (we place “independent” in[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

The Doctors Company Has Paid Over $140M To Insureds Who Have Retired

September 7, 2022

The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, insuring 84,000 doctors nationwide. The Doctors Company offers comprehensive risk solutions for practices of all sizes—from medical and dental solo practitioners to the largest multispecialty, multistate gro[...]

The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

August 24, 2022

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-41) (“Act”), signed into law on July 29, 2005, was enacted in response to growing concern about patient safety in the United States and the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer [...]

Illinois Supreme Court Allows Claim For Non-Use Of AED

August 13, 2022

The Illinois Supreme Court stated in its opinion dated May 19, 2022: “The main question presented in this case is whether a physical fitness facility has a duty under either the Physical Fitness Facility Medical Emergency Preparedness Act (Facility Preparedness Act) (210 ILCS 74/1 et seq. (201[...]

Teva Announces $4.35 Billion Nationwide Settlement Of Opioid Lawsuits

August 1, 2022

Teva Announces $4.35 Billion Nationwide Settlement Of Opioid Lawsuits: In reporting its Second Quarter 2022 Consolidated Financial Results, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. (“Teva”) announced its $4.35 billion settlement of nationwide lawsuits alleging its role in the nationwide opio[...]

Ontario Court Finds Defendant Pathologist Breached The Standard Of Care

July 20, 2022

Ontario Court Finds Defendant Pathologist Breached The Standard Of Care: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice stated in its April 22, 2022 opinion: “On October 31, 2015, Mary Fleury underwent a laparoscopy at the West Parry Sound Health Centre for a suspected small bowel obstruction. During t[...]

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Excess Health Care Costs In The United States

July 12, 2022

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Costs: A study published on February 26, 2022 entitled “Health Care Expenditures Attributable to Primary Care Physician Overall and Burnout-Related Turnover: A Cross-sectional Analysis” reported: “Turnover of PCPs results in approximately $9[...]

Gabapentin Increasingly Involved In Overdose Deaths

July 8, 2022

Gabapentin Increasingly Involved In Overdose Deaths: The CDC recently reported that postmortem toxicology tests detected gabapentin in almost 1 in 10 overdose deaths in the United States between 2019 and 2020. In about half of the cases, a medical examiner or coroner ruled that gabapentin was a caus[...]

Medical Malpractice Defense Lawyer Tells His Partners How He Fooled Medical Malpractice Jury

June 13, 2022

A medical malpractice defense lawyer was proud to tell his assembled co-workers back at the office about how he fooled a medical malpractice jury during a recent trial, telling the jury to disregard the evidence that showed that his client’s negligence led to the unnecessary death of the docto[...]

Canadian Court Affirms Suspension Of Surgeon Who Refused To Operate On His Patient Who Later Died

April 5, 2022

The Court of Appeal of Manitoba (Canada) affirmed the discipline meted out to a surgeon who refused to perform further surgery on his patient who was bleeding internally. A panel of the Inquiry Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (“panel”) found that the surge[...]

Surgery Malpractice Statistics

February 21, 2022

A report dated February 2022 by Coverys entitled “Surgery Risks: Through the Lens of Malpractice Claims” stated: “Each year in the United States, more than 48 million surgical inpatient procedures are performed and more than 35.8 million outpatient surgical procedures occur. The av[...]

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