Posts tagged medical malpractice

• How Would Tort Reform Affect the Quality of Emergency Healthcare?

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2007 7:00 AM | 2 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In 1975, the California State Legislature passed the California Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) which placed a cap on damages for medical malpractice claims. According to this Act, an injured plaintiff cannot recover non-economic losses in excess of $250,000. This tort reform statute has been in effect in California for thirty-two years. Because this California law has been in...

• Depraved Abortion Clinic Under Investigation – Poor and Desperate Patients Deserve Better

  Michael Monheit | January 24, 2011 8:01 AM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Can you imagine contracting a venereal disease at a doctor’s office? Can you imagine going to a doctor’s office for a surgical procedure and being overcome by the stench of cat urine?...

• Anapol Schwartz Attorneys File Wrongful Death Suit Against University City Doctor Kermit Gosnell

  Bernard Smalley | January 19, 2011 9:58 AM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Contact: Amy Leshko 609-682-4143 aleshko@startoplin.com Jen Wasilisin 609-682-4153 jwasilisin@startoplin.com PHILADELPHIA – Jan. 19, 2011 – Anapol Schwartz...

• Child Cancer Patients and Medication Errors

  Staff Writer | May 27, 2007 9:00 AM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As if struggling with and battling cancer is not enough, according to a researcher at Johns Hopkins Children Center, children often must also face the additional battle of having to overcome problems relating to medication errors. Children with cancer often get the wrong dose of chemotherapy or are given the drug at the wrong time, and many require treatment because of the errors, U.S....

• Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Dr. Gosnell’s Shop of Horrors

  Miriam Barish | January 20, 2011 4:14 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Yesterday authorities charged Dr. Gosnell a local Philadelphia primary care physician with murder of a 41 year old woman, Karnamaya Mongar who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an...

• Stun Guns and Hospital Care?

  Anita Pitock | December 10, 2010 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Stunned Guns and Patient Care? The Allentown Morning Call reported Federal and State authorities are investigating Lehigh Valley Hospital’s use stun guns against patients under their care....

• How is bacterial meningitis diagnosed?

  Michael Monheit | December 01, 2010 7:12 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As we head into winter, holiday travels, and flu season, it’s a good time to think about a serious, but little-talked about health risk: Bacterial Meningitis. This is a serious disease that...

• Signs And Symptoms Of Vp Shunt Malfunction

  Stephen Pokiniewski | November 29, 2010 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Over the 25 years I have represented patients injured by medical error at Anapol Schwartz, we have handle a number of cases involving injuries due to the failure to recognize, diagnosis and timely...

• Assignments vs. Liens In the Personal Injury Context

  Geoff Trachtenberg | December 09, 2007 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A large number of people, attorneys included, don't know the difference between "assignments" and "liens."Why does it matter, you ask? For a number of reasons that will be more obvious when the difference is understood.An assignment is the easier of the two to understand since, as the name implies, it is an transfer of all or some rights or property to a third-party. Although an assignor...

• Failure to Plead Sufficient Facts - The New Legal Malpractice?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | October 21, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There's a new case out this week from Division Two, Cullen v. Koty-Leavitt Insurance, which deals with the reasonable expectations doctrine in the UIM setting. The case is not particularly fascinating from a substantive perspective, but it raises questions about potential legal malpractice exposure.In sum, Cullen filed a UIM claim based upon the fact that his family was given the right to...