A new study in the American Journal of Infection Control found that 15% of our nursing homes received poor marks for controlling infection. Things are a little dirty. Okay. So what? The “so what?” answer makes you do a double take: infections kill 400,000 nursing home residents each year. It…
DEA agents tell a Maryland doctor he can no longer prescribe medication. As they are leaving he shouts: Your mothers wanted you to become physicians and because you didn’t, they are mad at you. So you are mad at physicians and are arresting all physicians in the area. Later, things…
My understanding of Maryland law is that doctors do not have to consent to settle before the insurance company can make a settlement offer, absent specific policy language giving them that right. (I say “my understanding” because I really don’t know the source. It could be the “Law of Ron.”…
Plastic surgery malpractice cases are extremely difficult to win not because malpractice in plastic surgery is rare but because it is incredibly difficult to prove. We have never taken a plastic surgery malpractice case and probably never will. So credit is due to a New Jersey plaintiffs’ medical malpractice lawyer…
Paul Luvera offers advice for lawyers in dealing with wrongful death cases. But I think it is also useful for all people in considering the feelings of survivors in death “cases.”
I’m a big fan of the law of unintended consequences. Here’s one: better medical care because of a bad economy. Why? I’m glad you asked. The economic downturn has helped the quality of nursing. During good times, every nurse (and their mother) was selling real estate on the side or…
Explore Baltimore County writes about a bill introduced by a doctor who is in the Maryland House of Delegates that says, in effect, that if a doctor says he or she is ‘sorry’ for a medical outcome, that apology would be inadmissible in a Maryland courtroom. I just looked for…
Premises liability claims make up 8% of nursing home cases. So while these claims are “nursing home cases” in one sense, they are really premises liability cases in nursing homes. This may come with nursing home specific fact patterns, but they are still premises liability claims. You can get an…
Both lawyers and laypeople have misconceptions about the application of the wrongful death cases. Making matters more complicated, we now have different rules in medical malpractice cases than we do in accident or other tort liability death rules. On our website, we are making a continuing effort to explain the…
Maryland enacted a self referral law in 1993 to help decrease the costs of health insurance and medical care after concerns that Maryland doctors would order unnecessary testing if they had a financial stake in ordering the testing. I think this was a problem with few doctors, but as we…