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…
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…
The president of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, Wayne M. Willoughby, writes an excellent response in the Baltimore Sun to a Maryland doctor’s editorial arguing that we have a problem with frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits in Maryland. Take whatever side you want on the medical malpractice tort reform issues, but…
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…
Medical Malpractice Law News provides a list of 28 things that should never happen in a hospital. These are a list of medical events that should not happen in the absence of negligence. Of course, many of these adverse events listed could happen in the absence of medical or hospital…
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…
One question you will hear Maryland medical malpractice lawyers asking each other is: do you need to file in health claims arbitration if the case if you filed in federal court? It is a good question because it is a tough question whether under the Erie Doctrine, Maryland’s health claims…
More evidence doctors are focusing on insurance companies instead of medical malpractice lawyers. The American Medical Association has a new campaign called “the Cure for Claims.” Their mission: to force/encourage health insurers to pay claims quickly. The AMA claims that $210 billion is added to the cost of health care…
As the Internet is cluttered with personal information, there is increasing talk in legal journals about using blogs, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking Web sites, to learn more about potential jurors. The Internet provides such a rich resource of information about potential and even already seated jurors. The problem…