Medical Malpractice

• Real Medical Malpractice Reform in New York—It’s About Patient Safety, Stupid.

  William Eadie | March 07, 2011 8:31 AM | 13 CommentsCleveland, OH

  You’ve no doubt been hearing a lot about “Tort Reform,” or what I like to call “malpractice entitlements.” The idea is simple: someone hurts you through their own...

• Malpractice Damage Caps: Adding Insult to Injury

  David Mittleman | August 18, 2008 10:14 AM | 13 CommentsLansing, MI

  No matter how much education or training a doctor has, he or she is still a human being. As all of us know, humans make mistakes. Although some degree of error is essentially inevitable in any...

• Infected Patients and Caps on Damages

  Jon Lewis | March 30, 2011 5:36 PM | 12 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  It is always good when you can relate real life examples to current proposed legislation. Today, the Birmingham News reported a tragic incident involving approximately six hospitals and a...

• Howard Dean Has Always Supported "Tort Reform"

  Mike Bryant | August 27, 2009 11:49 AM | 12 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  What a day of gotcha statements by the voices of big business and the health insurance companies. They are all excited about Howard Dean's statement at a town meeting that so-called tort reform...

• Access Denied: Interest Groups and 'Tort Reform' Proponents Put Up Roadblocks to Court System

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 06, 2011 3:07 PM | 11 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Laurence H. Tribe, a professor at Harvard whose 40-year career includes serving as senior counselor at the Department of Justice for access to justice, recently made a speech declaring that justice...

• Tort Reform Myth: The Legal System Causes High Malpractice Insurance Premiums

  Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 3:27 AM | 11 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  What causes high premiums for doctors' malpractice insurance? The insurance industry would have you believe that the cause is the legal system. The truth is that insurance company investment...

• Medical Malpractice - "Dr. Creepy" and his tattoos

  Donald Caminiti | July 22, 2008 3:40 PM | 11 CommentsBergen County, NJ

  A Pennsauken woman has filed suit in Camden County Superior Court against her orthopedic surgeon, who - after performing successful surgery on her herniated disc - left a washable tattoo on her...

• What Do You Call a Minnesota Surgeon Sued Nine Times for Malpractice? A TEXAS Surgeon!

  Mark Bello | August 12, 2011 6:25 PM | 10 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  Yesterday, I posted “Exposing the Perils of Texas Tort Reform” which prompted me to research neurosurgeon, Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz (Dr. K). What I found was so unbelievable that I thought...

• Health Care Costs and Malpractice Premiums Data Show No Link to "Lawsuit Crisis"

  Mark Bello | June 18, 2011 3:08 PM | 10 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  Want more evidence that lawsuit abuse, frivolous lawsuits, and these Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse groups are shams perpetrated on the public by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Big Insurance, Big...

• Doctors Fail to Timely Diagnose Michael Douglas' Cancer

  David Mittleman | September 02, 2010 3:31 PM | 10 CommentsLansing, MI

  On August 16 Michael Douglas announced that he has stage 4 throat cancer, but the 65-year-old actor didn't let that get him down. Instead, on his Tuesday night appearance on The Late Night With...