A doctor faces a long, and almost certainly, emotional jury trial. And the doctor wins. Does this mean the doctor can put the incident to bed? The answer is usually, but not necessarily. A jury’s finding that a doctor did not commit medical malpractice does not control a decision of…
Interesting statistics from the Green Bay Press Gazette (and here we thought Green Bay was just a football team, not a town) today: Over the last 30 years, the number of health insurance bureaucrats has grown 25 times faster than the number of doctors — people involved in such non-health-related…
Sometimes, lawyers or potential clients will ask for a Maryland medical malpractice lawyer who focuses on dental malpractice cases. I laugh. No malpractice lawyers focus on dental malpractice cases. Why? Typically, the damages are insignificant. This was not the problem in a South Carolina malpractice lawsuit that went to verdict…
This from the Kansas City Star on the illusory relationship between health care costs and medical malpractice lawsuits: Yet the push for tort reform rests largely on anecdotal evidence of the occasional large jury verdict or outrageous lawsuit. Despite the perception that “jackpot justice” has fueled soaring costs, hard data…
The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog offers thoughts on when to serve interrogatories. The argument that interrogatories should filed contemporaneously with the complaint applies to medical malpractice cases but with less force. The question is going to hinge on the facts, potential defenses, and other tactics specific to that malpractice lawsuit.
The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog provides links today to summaries of Maryland malpractice law for medical malpractice lawyers, information on the Maryland malpractice damage cap, and a sample malpractice certificate of merit and expert report.
Write an editorial about medical malpractice. Logic and reason: optional. Just write something. Check out this gem from the Miami Herald: One aspect of the high price of health care and a lot of waste has been overlooked. That is the outrageous cost of malpractice insurance that doctors pay even…
Former New England Patriots defensive back Tebucky Jones has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit claiming Patriots team doctors, and another doctor failed to diagnose his career-ending 2006 preseason knee injury, effectively ruining his pro career. Jones’ malpractice lawyers can expect a prompt motion for summary judgment claiming the players’ collective…
Yesterday, on the Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog, I wrote about the clear plan doctors have of writing as many editorials as possible about medical malpractice. This editorial from Fredericksburg, Virginia fails to follow the ‘talk about defensive medicine’ talking point because the author is too focused on his completely insane…
Kevin MD reports on the idea of drive-through emergency rooms. Stanford Hospital & Clinics has turned the first floor of a parking garage into a drive-through emergency room. This sounds completely stupid and insane. And then you think about it a little more and it is not so crazy. The…