The Republican-controlled Kentucky Senate has repeatedly tried to introduce and pass legislation that would require Kentucky medical malpractice victims to suffer additional costs and delays in obtaining just compensation for their injuries from medical providers who breach the standard of… Read More
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Wisconsin $1.2B Medical Malpractice Fund Has $783M Surplus
A state audit of the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (“Fund”) reported in March that the Fund has a balance of $1.2 billion, which represents a surplus of $783 million in the Fund (the recommended range for the… Read More
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Former U.S. Congressman Plans To File Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Former U.S. Congressman Steve LaTourette, a nine-term Republican Congressman from Ohio, has filed formal notice of his intention to proceed with a medical malpractice claim against the United States, alleging that Capitol Hill doctors negligently failed to inform him of the… Read More
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Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Reforms Have Led To Injustice For Medical Negligence Victims
The Yiddish term “chutzpah,” which means shameless audacity, can be best explained by the following example: after a young man was found guilty of brutally killing his parents, he begged the sentencing judge for leniency, noting that he was an orphan. Chutzpah may… Read More
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Today Begins Our 5th Year Of Daily Blog Postings
When we began posting daily blogs on March 5, 2011, we never imagined that we would be posting blogs every day, without missing a single day, for more than four years. We never considered whether we would run out of news or topics of importance to… Read More
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West Virginia Legislature Moving Forward With Expanding Medical Malpractice Limits
The West Virginia Legislature is quickly moving forward with its efforts to expand and extend West Virginia’s restrictive medical malpractice liability laws to further insulate and protect a growing list of health care providers whose negligence harms West Virginians, at the expense of innocent West Virginians who are the… Read More
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New Study Finds Medical Malpractice Caps Lead To Higher Rates Of Preventable Patient Safety Events In Hospitals
A recently published study found that medical malpractice caps on noneconomic damages, which have been enacted in many states in the United States, have reduced the risk of medical malpractice litigation in those states, which has led to higher rates of preventable… Read More
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South Carolina Supreme Court Favors Substance Over Procedure In Medical Malpractice Cases
On July 23, 2014, the South Carolina Supreme Court stayed consistent with its prior decisions in medical malpractice cases that permit medical malpractice cases to proceed on the merits rather than to affirm unwarranted dismissals based on technical noncompliance with the medical… Read More
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Wisconsin’s Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms Wreak Havoc On Malpractice Victims
Wisconsin has experienced a drop of more than one-half in the number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed since 1999: in 2013, only 140 medical malpractice lawsuits were filed in Wisconsin. While the Wisconsin health care industry groups contend that the… Read More
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MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com Posts Its 1,200th Consecutive Daily Blog Today
MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com is the premier free, no obligation website connecting medical malpractice victims in the United States with medical malpractice lawyers in their state. Today, we celebrate our 1,200th consecutive daily blog posting. Each of our 1,200 blog postings was written… Read More
