In Allen v. United States, the government received summary judgment in North Dakota District Court in a medical malpractice case because they failed to retain an expert to offer opinions as to causation. Plaintiff received transfusions at the Grand Forks Air Force Base Hospital in South Dakota over ten years…
Sometimes medical malpractice clients assume that they have a “slam dunk case” when they learn that there has been disciplinary action by the Maryland Board of Physicians. But under Maryland law, specifically § 14-410(a) of the Maryland Health Occupations Article, minutes or notes taken in the course of determining the…
USA Today has a good article about a nurse who was fired because her husband is a medical malpractice lawyer in Texas. Wait, strike that, the hospital she worked for assumed he was a medical malpractice lawyer. He is not. Many are surprised to hear such a species still exists…
Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi introduced a bill designed to encourage doctors and other medical professionals to volunteer their services to patients who cannot afford or access care. The law would provide grants that states would use in part to assume medical malpractice risk for doctors and ensure patients can recover…