Jury Verdict Research reports on recovery probabilities in the following types of medical malpractice case: Foreign Objects Left in Body 66% Postsurgical Infection 43% Catheterization 39% Failed Sterilization 35% Lack of Informed Consent 25% Certainly, our Maryland malpractice lawyers have seen a rise in the number of complaints of post-surgery…
Yes, there are still medical malpractice lawsuits in Texas. It just requires an incredibly serious case. A Dallas County jury last week decided such a case, awarding $17.5 million to a former maintenance man for a North Dallas apartment complex who lost his arms and legs from a staph infection.…
A 12-person jury in Vermont jury began deliberations Thursday in a case that accuses a Burlington eye doctor of pressuring a patient into unnecessary cataract surgery. In closing statements last night, the medical malpractice lawyer for the plaintiff made a not very common argument in a malpractice case: that the…
American Medical Association (AMA), several state medical associations, and individual doctors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Aetna Health, Inc. and CIGNA Corporation claiming the insurance companies used rigged data to under-reimburse doctors. Doctors have to come up with a cogent theory on whether lawsuits are a good thing or…
The Lansdale Reporter offered the following editorial this morning: It’s indeed unfortunate that Lansdale Hospital became the 39th hospital to lose maternity services since the medical malpractice crisis began in 1999. This closing will jeopardize the health of expectant mothers when there is an obstetrical emergency. Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville…
Hospital administrators screw up and only purchase limited medical malpractice coverage. The hospital gets hit with a huge medical malpractice verdict. Who is to blame? Certainly not the hospital administrators who decided to go cheap on the coverage. They blithely shift the blame to medical malpractice lawyers and the cost…
An Elkon lawyer representing the family of a Cecil County man who filed a pharmacy misfill lawsuit against Wal-Mart reports that the parties have reached settlement. The decedent allegedly received the wrong prescriptions intended for another patient from a Wal-Mart pharmacist and subsequently died. The decedent (I hate naming names…
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…
My insurance law class begins with a case called GAF Corp. v. County School Board, a Virginia case that addresses the question of what constitutes insurance. This is not exactly an issue that gets a lot of media attention, being mostly discussed, outside of this case, by geeky insurance law…
I stumbled on this USA Today Editorial from last month arguing that the best way to reduce medical malpractice cases is to look to find ways to decrease medical errors. This certainly appeared to be the view of President-elect Obama before the campaign. I’m not sure where the new “middle…