Medical Malpractice

• The "Costs" of Healthcare

  Lauren Ellerman | October 08, 2007 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I couldn't begin to explain the "costs" of healthcare in the United States... You have the costs of not providing care to those in need; the costs that for profit healthcare companies try to reduce in order to maximize profits; the actual cost of having to obtain care without insurance, and or a supplemental program. The truth is, the costs of healthcare are too extensive, and complicated to...

• Texans for Lawsuit Reform Supporters

  Beth Janicek | October 08, 2007 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Texans for Lawsuit Reform(TLR) is a business group that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to bash plaintiffs' lawyers and win restrictions on judgments against physicians and other defendants.A retired orthopedic surgeon, Forney Fleming, was eager to help TLR bash plaintiffs' lawyers especially those who targeted doctors. Dr. Fleming was quoted as saying, "I was practicing in a 'judicial...

• $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...

• Kentucky Attorney General Files Suit Against OxyContin Manufacturer

  Chrissie Cole | October 05, 2007 9:39 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Kentucky Attorney General, Greg Stumbo, announced the filing of a lawsuit against the manufacturer of Oxycontin, a commonly abused narcotic for medical negligence amongst other claims.The lawsuit alleges the manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, misrepresented the risks associated with OxyContin use and seeks to recover damages suffered county and state governments related to widespread addiction in...

• Woman Rewarded $2.4 Million Because of Gynecologist's Mistake

  Jenny Albano | October 04, 2007 11:34 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  A Broward County jury awarded more than $2.4 million to Karlene Chambers of Pembroke Pines after her gynecologist left a sponge-like material in her following a cesarean procedure.Chambers sued her doctor, Joseph Becerra of the Pembroke Pines OB/GYN Associates, Memorial Hospital West and other medical agencies involved in the mishap for negligence.According to Chamber's attorney Crane Johnstone,...

• Woman Awarded $2.4 Million for Sponge

  Shannon Weidemann | October 04, 2007 10:33 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC

  A woman underwent a c-section and the doctor performing the operation left a surgical sponge inside her body. The sponge was not discovered until two weeks later and now the woman cannot have any more children. She sued her doctor and the hospital for medical malpractice. A jury awarded the woman $2.4 Million after finding them negligent. The woman was in and out of the hospital following...

• Timing Plays a Roll in the Quality of Healthcare

  Rick Shapiro | October 04, 2007 9:27 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Authored by: Richard N. ShapiroSeveral recent studies have indicated that medical mistakes may occur with increased frequency based upon the timing of an individual's contact with the medical community. For instance, the American Journal of Gastroenterology recently completed a study that examined an increase in successful completion of colonoscopies performed in the morning verus the...

• Wow, Indiana's Cap is Bad Too

  Ben Glass | October 04, 2007 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Thanks to Wisconsin medical malpractice attorney Mike End for emailing me to point out that Indiana has a medical malpractice cap that tops out at $1.25 million dollars.Here's what's really crazy about their cap. A doctor is only responsible for the first $250,000 for any claim and then a state fund kicks in. And the doctor's total annual "cap" is $750,000. So, in Indiana, the MORE malpractice...

• Lab Mislabeling Caused Women to Get Mastectomy

  Jenny Albano | October 03, 2007 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  At first doctors told Darrie Eason that she had breast cancer, but then four months later, after she had already completed a double mastectomy, the doctors told her that the results had been a mistake. Apparently her tissue sample had been mislabeled at CBLPath medical lab in Rye Brook.Eason sued CBLPath in state supreme court in Mineola last month, seeking an undisclosed sum of money. The 1...

• The Fairness of Medical Malpractice Settlements

  Brooks Schuelke | October 03, 2007 8:44 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Phillip Peters, a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, has written a new article entitled The Fairness of Malpractice Settlements. Professor Peters looked at the correlation between settlements in medical malpractice claims and the strength of the underlying cases. He concluded:Researchers have studied the settlements that result from thisprocess and their findings...