Medical Malpractice

• Assisted Living Regulations Available for all 50 States

  Billy Cunningham | April 11, 2009 9:05 AM | 2 CommentsMobile, AL

  The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) recently compiled a summary of the assisted living regulations in all 50 states. The Assisted Living State Regulatory Review can be found at this web...

• 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...

• CBO Report

  Pete Burns | October 12, 2009 9:32 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  The Congressional Budget Office has determined that limiting the rights of malpractice victims would only result in three tenths of one percent savings in medical cost....

• Study Does Not Support Changing Med-Mal Tort System

  Billy Cunningham | September 18, 2009 1:34 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  In December, 2008, the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) prepared a study paper entitled Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals. One of the issues addressed...

• Replace "Deny & Defend" with "Honesty & Apology"

  Pete Burns | September 13, 2009 12:41 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  Tying “Tort Reform” to health insurance reform could benefit both the doctors and the patients. The typical victim of a medical error wants fair compensation not a lawsuit. Most doctors...

• Health Care Crisis- Common Sense Approach or Political Football

  Billy Cunningham | September 11, 2009 4:43 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  In last Wednesday night’s address, President Obama directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to move forward on Bush administration initiative of demonstration projects in individual...

• Misdiagnosis

  Pete Burns | August 17, 2009 2:36 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is yet another anti consumer republican trying to shift the focus from insurance reform by pretending that problems in health care are the result of “junk...

• Medical Malpractice: Universal health care & shifting the cost of negligence

  Pete Burns | July 15, 2009 10:32 AM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  We have approximately 50 million Americans without health insurance. Health care cost following an accident or illness is the most common cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Cleary this is a...

• Lasik Surgery: know your risks

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

  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...