The Maryland Court of Appeals changed an illogical quirk in Maryland law on Friday, finding that doctors must inform patients not only of the risks of treatment but also the potential consequences of forgoing a medical procedure. The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog has a complete summary of this medical malpractice…
Two Texas nurses have been charged criminally with reporting a doctor to the Texas Medical Board. I’ll bet you $10 the charges are dropped once the Winkler County District Attorney wakes up. (Is this an elected post?) But the chilling effect that will flow all the way to Maryland will…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned both the trial court and an intermediate appeals court, reversing one of the largest medical malpractice suit verdicts in New Jersey, a whopping $75,967,140 (which the trial court had reduced to $70,891,781.59). The facts of this case, regardless of whether medical malpractice was…
Wisconsin has a really dumb medical malpractice law. Non-dependent children or their parents are not allowed to file a medical malpractice lawsuit for a death claim that results from a medical error. There is now a move afoot in the Wisconsin legislature to make for a more fair wrongful death…
Recently passed laws in several states, including Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., require hospitals to detail serious injuries; this reveals the frequency and variety of so-called “never events” which should never happen. The laws are different in each state. Virginia’s public records identify the hospitals by name, but Maryland and…
I provided my thoughts on Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on Friday on Public Citizen’s recent report on medical malpractice and its impact on health care costs. The short answer: not much. But Public Citizen provided one more malpractice statistic that is worth mentioning. In an hour, chances are that five…
Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill making it more difficult to bring medical malpractice lawsuits in the state. Republican supporters of the bill said it will help attract doctors to the state. Opponents argue that the measure threatens the ability of malpractice victims to recover…
Metro Verdicts Monthly reports on a $1,558,039 jury award in a medical malpractice case in Prince George’s County. Plaintiff’s malpractice lawsuit alleged median nerve damage as the result of medical malpractice. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged the doctor negligently performed the carpal tunnel surgery, resulting in permanent damage to the median nerve.…
The Arizona Star reports that the Arizona legislature is considering a law that would – to put it lightly – make it more difficult for medical malpractice lawyers to recover compensation in medical malpractice cases for their clients. Under the proposed bill, the plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases would be…
Point of Law suggests that medical malpractice lawyers and their lobbyists are behind the often cited Institute of Medicine’s report that medical malpractice kills 100,000 people a year. Who knows? How do you argue the methodology without digging through the methodology? I just don’t know. But it is important to…