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Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages

May 22, 2023

Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages: One of the tried and true arguments that the health care industry promotes to advance their medical malpractice tort reform efforts before state legislatures that protect the financial interests of heath care providers at the expense[...]

Maryland Hospital And Radiology Practice Pay $2M To Settle False Claims Act Case Regarding Billing of Services To Medicare and Medicaid

May 10, 2023

$2M To Settle False Claims Act Case: On March 20, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced that Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center, Inc. (“DCMC”) and Diagnostic Imaging Associates, LLC (“DIA”), both located in Lanham, Maryland, have agreed to[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Not Entitled To Summary Judgment Based On Spoliation

May 4, 2023

Court Holds Plaintiff Not Entitled To Summary Judgment Based On Spoliation: Jahmir Frank suffers from a permanent and debilitating brain injury. Believing that Good Samaritan caused his injury during his birth, Frank sued Good Samaritan for medical malpractice in state court. During litigation, Fran[...]

$43.5M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Former Philadelphia Eagles Captain

February 19, 2023

$43.5M Malpractice Verdict For Former Philadelphia Eagles Captain: On February 13, 2023, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $43.5 million in favor of former Philadelphia Eagles team captain Christopher Maragos against orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Bradley an[...]

Physicians With One Paid Medical Malpractice Claim Are Four Times More Likely To Pay Future Medical Malpractice Claims

February 12, 2023

Physicians With 1 Paid Malpractice Claim Are 4 Times More Likely To Pay Future Claims: A study entitled “Association of Past and Future Paid Medical Malpractice Claims” published on February 10, 2023 in JAMA Health Forum found: “Physicians with even a single paid medical malpractic[...]

Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Medical Software Developer

February 5, 2023

Claim Revived Against Medical Software Developer: In its unpublished opinion dated November 29, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated: In this product liability negligence action, Ruby L. Lowe, on behalf of her injured grandson[...]

Can You Record An Independent Medical Examination In A Medical Malpractice Case?

December 30, 2022

Can You Record An Independent Medical Examination In A Medical Malpractice Case? Often times in medical malpractice and other personal injury cases that are in litigation, the defense requests that the plaintiff submit to an “independent” medical examination (“IME”) by a heal[...]

U.S. States With The Most, Least Medical Malpractice Claims

December 15, 2022

US States With The Most and Least Medical Malpractice Claims: NiceRx, which “assists eligible individuals to enroll in patient assistance programs to receive their brand name medication directly from the pharmaceutical company,” recently reported on its findings regarding which U.S. stat[...]

Kaiser Family Foundation Reports 100 Million Americans Have Health Care Debt

November 7, 2022

100 Million Americans Have Health Care Debt: Benjamin Franklin once said, “God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.” The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) recently reported: “In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they’ve gone into debt because of medical or d[...]

Statute Of Limitations For Medicare Part C Claim For Reimbursement In Medical Malpractice And Other Personal Injury Cases

November 5, 2022

Medicare Reimbursement In Malpractice And Personal Injury Cases: Congress created Medicare to provide insurance to those over the age of 65. Oftentimes, though, it turns out that more than one insurer may be liable for a Medicare beneficiary’s medical expenses. For example, a car-accident victim m[...]

Doctors Partially Sterilized Patient Without Her Consent Before They Realized Their Mistake

November 2, 2022

Patient Partially Sterilized Without Consent: A woman who gave birth by emergency Cesarean section delivery in May 2021 at Mount Sinai Hospital in North Lawndale, Illinois had one of her fallopian tubes tied immediately after the C-section before the doctor realized that the woman had not consented [...]

Ontario Superior Court Proposes To Certify Class Action Against Endoscopy Clinic For Unsanitized Scopes

October 17, 2022

Court Proposes To Certify Class Action Against Endoscopy Clinic: The Alleged Facts: The plaintiff is a former patient of an endoscopy clinic operated by the defendants in Ottawa between 2002 and 2011. Following an inspection by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) it was determin[...]

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