Posts tagged medical malpractice

• Lasik Surgery: know your risks

  Pete Burns | March 02, 2009 2:04 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Lasik surgery is a highly profitable and consequently aggressively advertized medical procedure. Before you undergo Lasik surgery get all of the facts including the likelihood that you will develop...

• AHA Advocates substituting good ole boys for juries

  Pete Burns | October 21, 2009 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The American Hospital Association is advancing a bizarre version of malpractice “reform”. It advocates substituting a local panel of experts appointed by state authorities for juries....

• Finding Quality Medical Care ... And Avoiding Bad Care

  Pete Mackey | August 15, 2009 6:22 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  When a lay person calls me about a legal problem, it is generally a friend or former client. We encourage them to call us because, although we confine our practice to civil jury trials, we want them...

• Medical reform

  Pete Burns | June 22, 2009 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We must be alert that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries do not further limit the rights of victims of medical errors to recover fair compensation. No one knows who will be the victim of...

• Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs

  Pete Burns | October 09, 2008 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs for specific...

• Man Awarded $24 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | March 01, 2008 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Streator man was awarded nearly $24 million in a medical malpractice case for brain damage he suffered while in the hospital to have a kidney stone removed, according to court records regarding the case.In 2001, the man, who is now 34, was in St. Mary's Hospital to have a kidney stone removed. While in the hospital's care he suffered cardiac arrest which cut off the flow of oxygen to his...

• Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. according to JAMA Article

  Tedford Taylor | May 24, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Liability reform to stop medical malpractice junk lawsuits, the subject of a Courier-Journal opinion piece, fell on deaf ears last week in light of an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association which reports doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. This flies in the face of the myth that tort...

• Doctor must Pay $9M for Patient Death

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 1:33 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Miami-Dade Circuit Court jury has held a Miami Doctor liable for $9 million dollars in damages in the death of a patient. The case involves Dr. Carmel Barrau. Jessie Sturdivant was his patient in 1999. On Thursday, Jay Cohen, of the Miami firm of Grossman and Roth won the judgment on behalf of Sturdivant's wife. The attorney said his next step is to file a bad faith claim against Barrau's...

• A Shocking Report Relating To Medication Errors

  Tom Methvin | October 10, 2006 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I was shocked to learn that medication errors harm 1.5 million people and kill several thousand each year in the United States, costing the nation at least $3.5 billion annually. While I knew that the error rate was fairly high, I certainly didn't realize how bad it actually was. The Institute of Medicine, the nation's most prestigious medical advisory organization, released a report,...

• Widespread Medication Errors Affect Millions

  Staff Writer | July 23, 2006 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Institute of Medicine performed a research study that found approximately 1.5 million people are harmed from errors in prescribing, dispensing, and taking of medication. The report stated that errors could be prevented with improved prescription technology, disclosure of drug information, and packaging. Over $3.5 billion is spent treating drug-related injuries annually, according to report...