Medical Malpractice

• Do You Sign Your Doctor's Arbitration Agreement

  Todd Slaughter | June 25, 2009 8:30 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA

  There is an increasing trend in the medical community to have patients sign off on a Doctor's Agreement that includes an Arbitration Clause. When a patient signs such an agreement he/she is...

• Guidant Initiates Worldwide Physician Communications Regarding Important Safety Information and Corrective Action about Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Guidant Corporation is voluntarily advising physicians about important safety information regarding certain devices. Guidant has apprised FDA of these actions, and FDA has indicated that it will classify them as recalls. These communications advise physicians and their patients of safety information and are intended to limit adverse events. Physicians should use this information to decide how...

• Micra Limits Everything

  Steven Schultz | August 18, 2009 6:29 PM | 1 CommentSacramento, CA

  I recently spotted an article on the topic of MICRA (Medical Insurance Compensation Reform Act) and the need for reform. The article spoke at length about how MICRA limits pain and suffering damages...

• Statute of Limitations Upheld by Oregon Supreme Court

  Greg Owen | May 23, 2008 7:52 PM | 0 CommentsGlendale, CA

  A statute of limitations refers to a statute that sets forth the period of time, after the occurrence of a given event, that legal proceedings can be initiated relative to that occurrence....

• Medical Malpractice: Waiting In E.R. Can Be Deadly

  Randy Walton | October 31, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA

  When 33-year-old Christopher Jones experienced pain in his chest and left arm he did what most people would do, he went to the hospital. When arrived at the Emergency Department he was told to wait until it was his turn.Mr. Jones waited and waited, for more than three hours, the he stepped outside and collapsed on the pavement. A few minutes later he was dead. Is this a wrongful...

• Lawsuit Upheld Over Missed Cancer Diagnosis

  David Rowell | November 22, 2008 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsFresno, CA

  Pamela Rock sued her doctors and others claiming that, through their negligence, her breast cancer was not diagnosed in a timely fashion and worsened and spread into her lymph nodes, a much more...

• Survivor Raises Awareness of Hospital-Acquired Infections, California Malpractice Laws

  Walton Barber, LLP | December 11, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  Alicia Cole entered a Los Angeles area hospital to have fibroids removed, a relatively simple procedure. What was supposed to be a one-day stay in the hospital, turned into a five-month fight for survival after she acquired a hosptial-born necrotizing fasciitis, the flesh-eating bacteria.Like thousands of other patients in American hospitals, Ms. Cole became a victim of the saddest of all...

• Product Liability: Bayer Stops Sales Of Trasylol Due To Risk Of Death

  Scott Barber | November 05, 2007 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has suspended sales of Trasylol, a drug used to control bleeding during heart surgery, after pressure by the FDA. The suspension of sales of Trasylol is due to a Canadian study which may have found an increased risk of death associated with the drug's use. The FDA and Bayer are examining the study which was stopped before its expected conclusion.Trasylol appeares to...

• Before Rendering Critical Care Is It Ethical for a Physician to Insist that Patient Sign an Arbitration Clause?

  Todd Slaughter | June 30, 2009 7:41 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  So you’ve been injured. You have some scrapes and bruises, a dislocated shoulder, perhaps a broken bone or two. We are all familiar with the process of getting those things fixed. After...

• Judge Approves $5.75 million in UC Davis Malpractice Suit

  Rick Patterson | October 16, 2009 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  A Sacramento judge approved a $5.75 million settlement to the parents of a 4-year-old boy who filed a medical malpractice suit against the UC Davis Medical Center. The parents' attorneys claimed...