Medical Malpractice

• 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...

• Caps on Medical Malpractice undermine the Civil Justice System

  Larry Knapp | June 03, 2009 5:31 PM | 2 CommentsStockton, CA

  A radiology practice and hospital were negligent in the treatment of a woman whose bowel was damaged during surgery to remove an ovarian cyst. Following 9 years of legal wrangling, a Shiawassee...

• California Hospital Mortality Report Wrangles Rural Nor Cal Hospital

  Todd Slaughter | January 28, 2009 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA

  We don't kill stoke patients! That was the headline quote in the Redding Record Searchlight from Mayers Memorial Hospital CEO Katharine Ann Campbell, responding to a recent hospital mortality report...

• 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...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for $1.6 Million

  Randy Walton | September 27, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  An Illinois hospital and one of its doctors have settled a malpractice lawsuit for $1.6 million. The suit was filed after an infant died of severe constipation.Will County Circuit Judge Gerald Kinney approved the settlement Wednesday, more than three years after Shequetta Wilson filed the suit.Her son, Noah Wilson, was 5 months old when he died Sept. 26, 2002, of septic shock from untreated...

• Child Wins Damages in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | July 05, 2007 11:33 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  A jury has awarded $96 million in future damages in a medical malpractice case of a child who developed a rare neurological disorder that was caused by untreated jaundice after his birth four years ago at Verdugo Hills Hospital.The current award value is $15 million, but it expected to reach $96 million over the course of medical care for the boy throughout his lifetime. Making it one of the...

• Medical Group Hires Firm to Review Medical Malpractice Rates

  Christina Cole | December 19, 2006 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  The Florida Medical Association has hired a firm to review medical malpractice insurance rates that a state consumer advocate has accused as being too expensive.The South Carolina firm, Bartlett Actuarial Group, was asked to review the finding of the consumer advocate, according to the Medical Association. "We are obviously worried about the rates," said Lisette Mariner, spokeswoman for the...

• Human Tissue Recall from Biomedical Tissue Services

  Ed Smith | October 17, 2006 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Every year there are approximately one and a half million new surgical procedures known as Allografts - surgical transfers of bone, skin, tendons, and other tissues in which tissues from cadavers are transplanted into patients.Recently, the New Jersey tissue company known as Biomedical Tissue Services was criminally indicted for illegally harvesting human tissue from corpses. Biomedical then...

• Modern Medicine

  Rick Patterson | December 05, 2007 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA

  With so many defective drugs out there, it is a breath of fresh air to see a development that would be a positive force in the world of medicine. One such development is the revolutionary concept of nanomedicine. "Imagine a small capsule measuring in nano meters, scanning your internal organs and providing details to censors placed outside. This may have sounded like science fiction a couple of...

• Doctors Don't Tattle Tale

  Randy Walton | December 04, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  A new survey shows that even though doctors believe that incompetent or impaired colleagues should be reported to the appropriate authorities, most don't.In a survey of more that 1,600 physicians by the Annals of Internal Medicine, 45% said they did not always report an incompetent colleague, even though nearly every respondent said the should. Nearly half said they did not report at least one...