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Two Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed Against California Nursing Home

April 1, 2012

A California nursing home in Northern California recently had two medical malpractice wrongful death cases filed against it for the deaths of two of its residents that occurred during 2011. Case No. 1 In the first case, a man was admitted into the hospital in January, 2011, for treatment of his k[...]

Autism Rates In U.S. Skyrocketed In Last 10 Years

March 31, 2012

What Is Autism? According to the National Institute of Mental Health, autism is a group of developmental brain disorders, collectively called autism spectrum disorder (ASD), that includes a wide range of symptoms that may result in mild impairment to severe disability. There are five pervasive d[...]

Florida Legislature Passes Bill To Pay Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 30, 2012

Back in 2007, a Florida medical malpractice jury awarded almost $31 million to a child and his parents for the child’s birth injuries that included cerebral palsy and other serious injuries that the jury determined were the result of medical malpractice committed by employees of Lee Memorial [...]

Benefits Of Bariatric Surgery For Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

March 29, 2012

An article appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 26, 2012 reported on a study called the Surgical Treatment and Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently (STAMPEDE) trial that was designed to compare bariatric surgery procedures with intensive medical therapy treatme[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Medicaid Recovery Law Unconstitutional

March 28, 2012

Sometimes when there is a medical malpractice settlement, the medical malpractice claimant’s medical bills related to the medical malpractice were paid by Medicaid. Under federal law, states participating in the Medicaid program are required (with some exceptions) to seek reimbursement for me[...]

U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Cap On Noneconomic Damages

March 27, 2012

On March 22, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5 that is entitled “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2012” by a vote of 223 to 181, with 7 Democrats voting yes, 10 Republicans voting no, and 4 Republicans voting present. The AMA[...]

Sexual Abuse Of Nursing Home Resident Alleged In Minnesota

March 26, 2012

A disturbing case of alleged sexual abuse of a nursing home resident in Minnesota is even more egregious because the former nursing home staff member had been investigated for prior alleged incidences of sexual abuse in other nursing homes. Minnesota officials investigated the sexual abuse allegatio[...]

Are Caps On Noneconomic Damages Fair?

March 25, 2012

Many U.S. states have enacted laws that place a cap (limit) on the amount of noneconomic damages (such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, etc.) that medical malpractice victims may recover from medical malpractice defendants who provided medical care that failed to meet the requi[...]

California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Migraine Treatment That Caused A Stroke

March 24, 2012

On March 19, 2012, after more than three weeks of trial, a California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $22 million in favor of a woman who suffered a debilitating stroke as a result of an invasive and risky diagnostic procedure recommended by her doctors for her life-long[...]

Nursing Home Wandering And Elopement

March 23, 2012

Some residents of nursing homes have cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease that make them more prone to wandering or elopement, both of which can result in life-threatening injuries or even death. Wandering may be defined as straying into unsafe territories. Wandering may be eithe[...]

Aspirin: The Miracle Drug

March 22, 2012

A Brief History Of Aspirin’s Long History Naturally-occurring compounds containing salicyclic acid (similar to modern-day aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)) have been around for thousands of years, even being used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks for pain relief and fever reduction. Syntheti[...]

Iowa Medical Malpractice Claim For Birth Injuries To Mother And Child

March 21, 2012

An Iowa couple recently filed a medical malpractice claim against the State of Iowa in its capacity as the operator of a hospital in which it is alleged that various health care providers committed medical malpractice that caused injuries to the mother and her baby during the Cesarean section[...]

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