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Illinois Bill To Adjust Cap On Medical Malpractice Attorneys Fees Passes In Senate

January 7, 2013

Senate Floor Amendment 2 to Illinois House Bill 5151, which passed in the Illinois Senate on January 3, 2013 on a 36-15 vote, would cap attorneys’ fees in medical malpractice cases at one-third of a plaintiff’s award and would bar lawyers from petitioning the court for higher fees in medical[...]

Nurse Practitioner Malpractice And Physician Assistant Malpractice Claims

January 6, 2013

There are 86,500 certified physician assistants (“PAs”) in the United States currently, which is a 100% increase from ten years ago. The number of nurse practitioners (“NPs”) has increased from 111,000 in 2003 to about 155,000 currently. PAs are allowed to prescribe medicat[...]

Physician Monitoring Programs Reduce Medical Malpractice Claims By 20%

January 4, 2013

When physicians suffer from alcohol abuse, drug dependency problems, or mental health issues, they are often referred to physician health programs (“PHPs”) that provide monitoring of their medical practices while they undergo necessary treatment, either voluntarily or involuntarily. [...]

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Claims

January 3, 2013

Many people are under the impression that Lyme disease is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States and that Lyme disease misdiagnosis cases are also of recent vintage. However, Lyme disease misdiagnosis claims have been around for over a decade and appear to us to be increasing in frequency,[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Reduces $10 Million Jury Award To $300,000 For Paralyzed Man

January 2, 2013

A 36-year-old man was left paralyzed from the chest down due to medical malpractice, as determined by a Colorado medical malpractice jury that awarded him $10 million for the noneconomic damages that he sustained as a result of medical negligence after a three-week trial. The total medical malprac[...]

New York City Medical Malpractice Claim Statistics For Fiscal Year 2011

January 1, 2013

On December 27, 2012, New York City’s Comptroller, John C. Lui, issued the official City of New York Office of the Comptroller Claims Report Fiscal Year 2011 concerning all claims against the City of New York for Fiscal Year 2011 that totalled $550.4 million in payments for settlements and ju[...]

Russian Medical Malpractice Claim Denied For Jailed Activist’s Death

December 29, 2012

It is not very often that a medical malpractice claim in one country has led to international repercussions in which sovereign countries have enacted laws directed at officials of other countries in a spiraling escalation of retaliatory responses. But that is apparently what is happening this [...]

CDC Study Shows Large Increase In Childbirth Complications

December 28, 2012

A recent study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) found a 75% increase in emergencies during childbirth between 1998 and 2009, and that severe complications for women more than doubled in the days immediately following delivery during the same time period. There was found to[...]

How Are Medical Malpractice Reform Efforts Similar To An Assault Weapons Ban?

December 27, 2012

How are medical malpractice reforms similar to efforts to ban assault weapons? There would seem to be no similarity, at first blush — whether you are “pro-gun rights” or “anti-gun,” you could not possibly be pro-medical malpractice, if you are rational. That’[...]

Nurse’s Negligence Leads To Hospital Patient’s Paraplegia And Death

December 25, 2012

On the night of May 11, 2000, an insulin-dependent diabetic patient was admitted into a Louisiana hospital due to abdominal pain, back pain, and vomiting leading to his dehydration. His admitting physician diagnosed him with diabetic ketoacidosis (a condition that occurs in diabetics when the bo[...]

Medical Malpractice And Surgical “Never Events”

December 24, 2012

A “never event” is a medical error that is “unacceptable and eminently preventable” and therefore should never occur. The term was first used by the National Quality Forum (NQF) in 2001 and resulted in a list of “never events” that are clearly identifiable and m[...]

Minnesota Hospitals Take Steps To Reduce Medical Malpractice Claims

December 23, 2012

It was announced on December 18, 2012 that hospitals in Minnesota that are participating in the so-called Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network have prevented more than 3,200 re-admissions to the participating hospitals, have prevented 463 patients from experiencing a fall while i[...]

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