Medical Malpractice

• Dissecting Aorta: Timely treatment or death and malpractice

  Pete Burns | January 11, 2009 5:52 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  There are about 2,000 cases of aortic dissection in the United States each year. With timely treatment the survival rate is approximately 85%. Without treatment 25% of patients die in the first 24...

• Apology Laws

  Gaines Drago | August 19, 2008 5:08 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Surfing the internet a few weekends ago I came across this article from a Dallas based plaintiffs firm discussing new measures state legislatures are taking to curb medical malpractice payouts. The...

• Medical Malpractice - Quality Assurance

  Jon Lewis | June 27, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  On Monday, a potential client's wife called about a medical malpractice case. I told her we would need to review the medical records in order to evaluate the case. We discussed this a bit further,...

• Medical Malpractice - Why do Doctors Worry?

  Jon Lewis | June 26, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Doctors I meet always discuss the malpractice problem. They seem to worry about lawsuits to an incredible degree. Yet, the statistics show that doctors and hospital win an overwhelming majority of...

• $2 Million Awarded in Rhode Island Medical Malpractice

  Shannon Weidemann | June 10, 2008 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against Rhode Island Hospital and Dr. William Feng. The plaintiff claimed that he suffered a brain injury during open heart surgery at the hospital in 1998....

• Military Protected from Medical Malpractice

  Shannon Weidemann | April 19, 2008 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsMontgomery, AL

  A 1950 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protects the military from medical malpractice lawsuits. The Feres vs. United States ruling prevents members of the military from suing their doctors or...

• Man Awarded $24 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

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

  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

  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

  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

  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,...