Medical Malpractice

• What if you don't want to file a lawsuit?

  Lauren Ellerman | April 17, 2008 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  For moral, financial, or personal reasons, we often have families who have been victims of medical negligence, or abuse, who do not want to file a lawsuit. So they ask us - "what are my other...

• Preventable Medical Errors Cost Money And Lives

  Ryan Scott | April 16, 2008 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  According to the Fifth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, 238,337 medicare patients died as a result of preventable safety errors from 2004 to 2006. The report goes on to state that...

• MORE PATIENTS WAIVING RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL

  Patricia Doherty | April 16, 2008 5:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Increasingly, doctors require their patients to waive their constitiutional right to a jury trial by signing binding arbitration agreements. Under binding arbitration agreements, if the physician...

• Stable Patients Dying in Hospitals

  Jamie G. Goldstein | April 15, 2008 7:06 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  During a two year period from 2004 to 2006 it was reported that over 188,000 lives were lost due to what is called a "failure to rescue". A failure to rescue occurs when a patient dies in a hospital...

• The Wisconsin Family Justice Bill: Ensuring That All Medical Malpractice Claims Are Heard

  David Lowe | April 15, 2008 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Once again today, I had to turn down a potential medical malpractice case for a young adult because there was no survivor of the victim who had the legal right to pursue the claim. Under Wisconsin...

• Children at Higher Risk For Drug Errors

  Scott Kappes | April 15, 2008 3:06 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  A new study published in this month’s Pediatrics magazine suggests that our children may be at much more of a risk of hospital errors than we ever could have imagined. The study claims that...

• Medical Errors Cost Billions...And Lives!

  Dan Frith | April 15, 2008 6:14 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  From 2004 through 2006, HealthGrades, a health care ratings organization, found that patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S. Medicare patients and cost the...

• Medical Malpractice Cases Decline - No Need For "Tort Reform"

  Mike Ferrara | April 15, 2008 1:04 AM | 7 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Those who favor restricting the rights of those harmed by careless doctors have one less weapon to use in their PR campaign. The latest figures just released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court show...

• National Standards Planned to Measure Physician Performance

  Brenda Fulmer | April 14, 2008 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  According to an article published April 1, 2008, in the New York Times, a national set of standards is currently being developed to help regulate the way health insurance companies...

• One out of 15 Children Hospitalized for Drug Errors

  Brenda Fulmer | April 14, 2008 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  In a study to be released next week in the April 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics, researchers found that roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children - a staggering 540,000 kids each...