Chicago Nursing Home Verdict
March 25, 2013
On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home on December 26, 2008 and suffered a broken hip, fractured pelvis, and fractured shoulder, all on h[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System Instrument Failures
March 24, 2013
The FDA maintains a database called MAUDE, which stands for Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience. MAUDE data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices. The data consists of voluntary reports since June 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports sin[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Malpractice Claims
March 23, 2013
Robotic surgery promises less invasive surgery resulting in less blood loss during surgery, less pain, and a faster recovery time than with other surgical methods. One of the most common surgical robots is called the da Vinci, which is manufactured and sold by Intuitive Surgical (“Intuit[...]
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Four Truths About The U.S. Medical Malpractice System
March 19, 2013
In prior blogs we have discussed myths regarding the medical malpractice system in the United States. Today, we blog about truths regarding the U.S. medical malpractice system. Truth One: Medical Malpractice Cases Take A Long Time To Resolve The average amount of time between when medical malpr[...]
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$8.3M Jury Verdict In DePuy Hip Implant Case
March 17, 2013
On March 8, 2013, a Los Angeles, California jury awarded $8.3 million to a 65-year-old plaintiff who had received an ASR XL hip implant manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics (“DePuy”), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, finding that the hip implant was defectively designed and caused th[...]
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Maryland Kidney Transplant Recipient Died From Rabies
March 16, 2013
A Maryland man who had received a kidney transplant one and a half years ago from a Florida donor who died in February, 2011, died on February 27, 2013 at the VA Medical Center in Washington after he became ill. Because rabies was suspected to be the cause of his death, a sample of his brain was [...]
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How Healthy Is The U.S. Compared To Other Countries?
March 12, 2013
In 2000, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) ranked the U.S. health care system as 37th in the world. In 2012, WHO ranked the U.S. 29th of the 193 reporting nations for life expectancy (life expectancy is defined as the number of years that a newborn can expect to live). Life expectan[...]
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