We start the year off with an article from Chattahbox.com. I’ve never heard of it. But this website reports on a new survey conducted by Columbia University’s Institute on Medicine that found 49% of doctors have witnessed serious medical mistakes conducted by another health care provider but refused to report…
Four Massachusetts doctors are asking that a wrongful death lawsuit against them be dismissed because the claim should be handled as a medical malpractice claim. The family of a man who killed in a motor vehicle accident claims these doctors failed to warn the at-fault drive that her medication may…
The Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday from malpractice lawyers in three cases challenging the Illinois limit on caps in medical malpractice cases. Earlier this year, a trial court ruled that the law violates the separation clause of the Constitution. The Maryland Court of Appeals is also expected to…
This CNN.com article is a little old, but it is an interesting story of one doctor’s struggle to find a medical malpractice lawyer to bring a medical malpractice lawsuit against her doctor. No one talks about this tragedy: victims who cannot bring a malpractice lawsuit only because the economics of…
In a series of articles, the Irish Independent underscores that the varying quality of radiologists in detecting breast cancer varies wildly from hospital to hospital is not a uniquely Maryland or American phenomenon. A radiologist investing what appears to be a breast cancer misdiagnosis epidemic in some hospitals in Ireland…
I saw California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Meet the Press shortly after Tim Russert’s death. I’ve never been a huge fan but his moderate views and understanding of the complexity of the issues facing California were fairly impressive. (Was the bar set low?) Anyway, the Terminator is on the wrong…
I found a Maryland Law Review article today that discusses what precipitated the birth Medical Mutual, the insurance company that insurers most Maryland doctors. In 1974, the malpractice carrier for eighty-five percent was not Medical Mutual but St. Paul who informed doctors that because the Insurance Commissioner had refused the…
In a medical malpractice trial in Pittsburgh, the jury found that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center at Shadyside’s care of the Plaintiff was both medical negligence and that it was the cause of the death of a man. The jury awarded $2.5 million under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Act.…