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This Is Our 1,000th Consecutive Daily Blog

November 28, 2013

Today, we proudly celebrate our 1,000th consecutive daily blog — we began daily blogging on March 5, 2011. Along the way, we have attempted to provide information that educates, illustrates, and explains the varied issues involving medical malpractice and health care in the United States. [...]

Robotic Surgery Injury And Death Rates Rising

November 24, 2013

The number of injuries and deaths in the United States as a result of robotic surgery has risen from 13.3 per 100,000 procedures in 2004 to approximately 50 per 100,000 procedures in 2012, according to a draft analysis by physicians at Rush University Medical Center, the University of Illinois, a[...]

Main Cause Of Physician Shortage Is Lack Of Enough Residency Programs

November 23, 2013

One of the mantras of medical malpractice tort reform advocates is that “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits and the lack of caps (limits) on damages that innocent victims of medical malpractice may recover for their injuries are driving physicians from their practices, leading to a[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendant

November 18, 2013

In a Georgia medical malpractice case decided on November 14, 2013, the Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held that the trial court was wrong in entering summary judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendant and that the Georgia Court of Appeals was wrong i[...]

New Report: No Growth Expected In Number Of Medical Malpractice Claims

November 16, 2013

The Hospital and Physician Professional Liability Benchmark Analysis is an annual publication of Aon Risk Solutions in conjunction with the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. According to Aon Risk Solutions website, the annual report details the growth of integrated self-insurance st[...]

Virginia Assisted Living Facility Sued For Failure To Protect Resident

November 14, 2013

On September 12, 2013, a lawsuit was filed in Virginia state court on behalf of a resident in a Virginia assisted living facility who allegedly was savagely attacked by another resident who was known to be violent. The 81-year-old woman, who has dementia, lived near to the resident who was known t[...]

“It’s Just Business” For Maryland Outpatient Surgery Center

November 11, 2013

The former medical director and founder of a Maryland outpatient surgery center filed a lawsuit against his former partners after he was terminated from his exclusive contract to provide anesthesia services at the center. The anesthesiologist was one of 25 physician-owners of the outpatient surgery[...]

How Does the Affordable Care Act Impact Medical Malpractice Claims?

November 8, 2013

How does the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as “Obamacare”) affect medical malpractice claims in the United States? The short answer is: not much (at east directly). Fortunately for the victims of medical malpractice in the United States, efforts at federal (nationwide) medi[...]

Zoloft Birth Defect Lawsuits Continue To Be Filed In West Virginia

November 4, 2013

On October 28, 2013, six more lawsuits were filed in Wayne County, West Virginia against the manufacturer of Zoloft (Pfizer Inc.) alleging that the plaintiffs’ babies suffered birth defects as a result of their mothers’ use of Zoloft during their pregnancies. The plaintiffs allege tha[...]

Nevada Supreme Court Hears Medical Malpractice Juror Bias Appeal

November 3, 2013

On October 16, 2013, the Supreme Court of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) heard oral arguments in an appeal of a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendant where one of the jurors had previously exchanged business referrals with the husband of the defendant’s paralegal.[...]

Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs

October 31, 2013

One of the most noisy cries for medical malpractice tort reform in the United States is that medical providers engage in so-called defensive medicine in states where medical malpractice tort reform has not been enacted because they fear that if they do not practice defensive medicine, they will be [...]

New Study Finds New Doctors Are Discourteous

October 29, 2013

The results of an observational study conducted by Johns Hopkins investigators regarding new doctors (first year interns at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore) that was published this month online in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that t[...]

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