Medical Malpractice

• Widespread Medication Errors Affect Millions

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

  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...

• Tort Reform - As Seen In The Movies

  Pete Mackey | September 23, 2009 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Remember the opening scene in the movie 10? The elderly woman sitting in a chair against the wall lets one loose, whereupon the sleeping dog next to her bolts out of the room. As Dudley Moore...

• 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...

• Medical Errors

  Billy Cunningham | February 10, 2009 9:18 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  There have been recent blogs on InjuryBoard about the Chamber of Commerce’s attacks on the tort system. That attacks are often point to medical malpractice – most often to insinuate your...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

  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...

• 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....

• Medical Negligence Experts: The Conspiracy Of Silence

  Pete Mackey | March 01, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  In my last post, I discussed the proposed State Senate Bill in Utah which would, among other things, subject out-of-state medical experts to disciplinary proceedings for submitting false testimony...