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medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

New Mexico Governor Signs Into Law Medical Malpractice Reforms Extending Protections To Independent Outpatient Health Care Facilities

April 12, 2023

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Law: New Mexico Senate Bill 523, which was signed into law on April 7, 2023, amends the New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act to cap claims for independent healthcare facilities, such as urgent care, ambulatory surgical centers, and free-standing eme[...]

Iowa Enacts New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law

February 23, 2023

New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law: On February 16, 2023, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law House File 161, which limits noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 unless the injuries are substantial or permanent, in which case the limits are now $1 million or $2 mi[...]

Today’s 4,000th Consecutive Daily Blog (medicalmalpracticelawyers.com)

January 31, 2022

Today’s blog is our 4,000th consecutive daily blog. It is hard to believe that we have been posting daily blogs on this website for 4,000 days straight. The more we post blogs, the more we realize that medical malpractice in the United States remains a national tragedy, effecting not only the [...]

The Need For Medical Malpractice Tort Reform: Who Do You Believe?

January 25, 2020

An article entitled “The Falacies of Medical Malpractice “Tort Reform”” states, in part: “Organizations representing the state’s doctors and their insurers have been hard at work trying to convince the public that medical malpractice insurance premiums have escalated [...]

Find Medical Malpractice Lawyers Near Me

November 4, 2019

“Find medical malpractice lawyers near me” is a search term used by many victims of medical malpractice throughout the United States because they do not know a medical malpractice lawyer near them at their time of need. Most victims of medical malpractice never thought they would be harm[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Senate Bill Would Provide Maryland Health Care Providers Sued For Malpractice With An Unfair Advantage

February 17, 2019

Maryland Senate Bill 323, introduced on January 30, 2019, if enacted into law, would provide Maryland medical providers who are sued for medical negligence with an advantage over their injured victims. Senate Bill 323, with changes to existing law in capital letters, states: Article – Courts and J[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Plaintiff To Amend Her Complaint To Comply With Rule 9(j)

December 23, 2018

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held in its decision filed on December 4, 2018 that the trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s medical malpractice complaint under Rule 9(j) and erred in denying her motion to amend. The Underlying N[...]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Finds $750,000 Cap On Medical Malpractice Noneconomic Damages Is Constitutional

July 1, 2018

In its opinion filed on June 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (“Wisconsin Supreme Court”) held “the $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice judgments and settlements is constitutional both facially and as applied to the [plaintiffs].” History Of Wis[...]

Updated Medical Malpractice Statistics In The United States

June 29, 2018

On June 25, 2018, the Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School (“CJ&D”) released its 10th update to its MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: BY THE NUMBERS briefing book, which compiles the latest statistics and research on issues related to medical malpractice. According to CJ�[...]

Florida Supreme Court Holds Caps On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Claims Unconstitutional

June 9, 2017

The Supreme Court of Florida held in a 4-to-3 decision filed on June 8, 2017 that the caps on personal injury noneconomic damages in medical negligence actions provided in section 766.118 violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Florida Constitution. Section 766.118, Florida Statutes (2011) Sectio[...]

Iowa Enacts Hurtful Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law

May 7, 2017

Iowa’s governor, Terry Branstad, signed into law on May 5, 2017 new legislation that limits noneconomic damages in Iowa medical malpractice cases to $250,000 unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function, substantial disfigurement[...]

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