Medical Malpractice

• Insurers Are Refusing to Pay for Hospital Errors

  Frank Bailey | January 21, 2008 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  What is this world coming to? Insurers are refusing to pay for hospital errors. Give me a break! For years the hospital's liability carriers have had to be drug into court kicking and screaming to make them pay for a hospital's errors. Now, it looks like a patient's medical insurance is following suit. Who then is to pay for the hospital's errors? Surely not the wrongdoer...Latest news...

• Questionable Doctors

  Frank Bailey | January 18, 2008 8:37 AM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Has your doctor been disciplined? The National Practitioner Data Bank is kept secret from both patients and from almost all physicians thanks to the American Medical Association's successful lobbying for secrecy when the legislation concerning the Data Bank was being considered.Public Citizen's Health Research Group has established its own data bank of doctors who have been disciplined. The...

• Widow Wins $16 Million in Medical Malpractice Case in Connnecticut

  Shannon Weidemann | October 11, 2007 8:13 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The widow of a truck driver was awarded $16 Million in a medical malpractice case against a doctor and medical group. The man died in 1994 of a heart attack. The lawsuit contended that the man's heart disease was not properly diagnosed or treated. The defendents in the case were Dr. Robert Goldsmith and the Stamford Medical Group. Koskoff called the award one of the largest wrongful death...

• $16 Million Awarded to Widow in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | October 06, 2007 12:39 AM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  The family of a man, who died over a decade ago, has been awarded a medical malpractice settlement of over $16 million by a Superior Court Jury.This is one of the largest wrongful death verdicts in Connecticut's history, to date. The jury awarded the settlement to the widow of Gary Carlson, 49, of Stamford, a truck driver who died in 1994. The suit was against Dr. Robert Goldsmith and Stamford...

• Swine Flu...Is It Worth $1.5 Billion Dollars?

  Frank Bailey | April 30, 2009 10:59 AM | 7 CommentsMountain Home, AR

  Last night President Obama went out of his way to change the name of this virus to the more scientific H1N1 and pledged $1.5 billion dollars to fight a possible pandemic. I am thinking, how about...

• MRSA Strikes Again

  Frank Bailey | April 10, 2009 12:08 PM | 2 CommentsMountain Home, AR

  Hospitals and doctors no longer have the luxury of saying a hospital acquired infection cannot be prevented. In a tragic case, David Fitzgerald had both arms and legs amputated after contracting a...

• Hospital Acquired Infections Are Preventable

  Frank Bailey | January 26, 2009 6:06 PM | 2 CommentsMountain Home, AR

  Every year 99,000 people die from hospital acquired infections according the Center for Disease Control. Only recently has the government stepped in to do something about this tragedy. But the...

• Infections: Are They Preventable?

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 1:09 PM | 0 CommentsEl Dorado , AR

  Everyday we hear about hospital acquired infection. MRSA has moved to the top of the list as a leading cause of death or prolonged hospital stay.Health care is not as safe as it should be. According to the Institute of Medicine, a substantial body of evidence points to medical errors as a leading cause of death and injury. What can be done to prevent the spread of infection and medical errors...

• Medication Errors Cause Injury and Death

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Health care is not as safe as it should be. A substantial body of evidence points to medical errors as a leading cause of death and injury in America. These preventable adverse events are the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. Sizable numbers of Americans are harmed as a result of medical malpractice. Deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitals (malpractice) exceed...

• Boston Doctors Lose Medical Malpractice Case

  Shannon Weidemann | October 15, 2007 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR

  Two doctors from a Boston hospital have lost a medical malpractice lawsuit. A jury awarded the plantiff $26.5 Million for a family to care for a child with cerebral palsy. The family contends that a lack of monitoring and failure to perform a timely c-section injured their son. A Suffolk County jury issued the verdict Thursday. The damages against two Brigham and Women's doctors are believed...