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$958K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Wrongful Palliative Care

August 15, 2013

On August 7, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned a $958,000 verdict in favor of the family of a woman who was given palliative care in a hospital instead of continuing medical treatment for her severe leg ulcers. The 62-year-old woman died a few day[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Loss Means Parents Must Pay $340,000 For Defendant’s Costs

August 14, 2013

When a baby in the womb did not have a pulse and was not receiving oxygen for thirteen minutes during delivery four years ago, resulting in the baby suffering permanent brain damage requiring constant medical care for the rest of his life, without explanation as to what had occurred, the parents fi[...]

Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors

August 11, 2013

In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic errors is estimated to be between 10% and 15%, with the rate highest for specialties such as emergen[...]

Unsafe Injection Practices And Contaminated Needles

August 10, 2013

The CDC reports that a survey of U.S. healthcare workers who provide medication through injection found that 1% to 3% reused the same needle and/or syringe on multiple patients (some healthcare personnel are unaware of, do not understand, or do not adhere to basic principles of infection control an[...]

Study: Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Do Not Decrease Defensive Medicine

August 9, 2013

The results of a study conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change that was funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform and which appears in the August 2013 edition of the journal Health Affairs found that office-based physicians who reported a high level of medical malpr[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Loss Based On Statute Of Limitations

August 7, 2013

The Indiana Supreme Court revived a medical malpractice claim that the trial court had determined to have been filed too late under the relevant Indiana statute of limitations. The Indiana Supreme Court began its written opinion by stating, “In this case, the parties have spent five years d[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

August 5, 2013

In its written opinion dated July 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”) affirmed a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $400,000 in compensatory damages for a knee infection claim, $500,000 in compensatory damages for a wro[...]

Supreme Court Of Florida Rejects Arbitration Agreement In Medical Malpractice Case

August 4, 2013

In its decision filed on June 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that an agreement to arbitrate a medical malpractice claim against a Florida surgeon was unenforceable. The patient had signed a “Financial Agreement” prior to his surgery t[...]

Medical Malpractice Physician Survey Results

August 2, 2013

In a recently reported survey of physicians in the United States, almost 1,400 of the responding physicians reported that they had been sued for medical malpractice (approximately 40% of the respondents had been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, with 9% being named as the only defendant a[...]

Tennessee $33.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury

July 30, 2013

On July 15, 2013, a Tennessee medical malpractice jury awarded $33.5 million against an obstetrician and his employer for the obstetrician’s alleged failure to perform a timely cesarean section delivery that resulted in the newborn’s severe and permanent brain injury and a form of cereb[...]

Illinois $1 Million Verdict For Carpal Tunnel Surgery Nerve Injury

July 28, 2013

On June 8, 2013, an Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded an 82-old-woman $1,066,000.00 in compensatory damages for injuries she suffered when her surgeon cut her median nerve during carpal tunnel surgery. The medical malpractice defendants argued that injury to the median nerve during carpel [...]

Malpractice Lawyers – Are The Noble Champions Of Malpractice Victims An Endangered Species?

July 23, 2013

Many people have heard malpractice lawyer jokes or digs against malpractice lawyers. Most of these same people mindlessly laugh when they hear these jokes, because they do not know any malpractice attorneys, they have no idea how malpractice lawyers are the protectors of the innocent and helpl[...]

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