Medical Malpractice

• Physicians' Group Sues the Texas Medical Board

  Brooks Schuelke | December 28, 2007 9:06 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  As part of Texas' 2003 tort reform, the Texas Medical Board was given more resources and more powers to police doctors. Where "regulation" through medical malpractice cases decreased, the TMB was supposed to take up the slack to help keep Texans safe. And the TMB started going after doctors. So much so that physicians groups asked legislators to hold hearings on the new TMB enforcement. The...

• The Poor Record of the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners

  Karen Gatlin | September 15, 2008 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ

  Dr. Joseph Gluck, a New Jersey pediatrician, was the former director of the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners from 1998 to 2006. It was therefore surprising to hear him recently state that the...

• Assisted Living Regulations Available for all 50 States

  Billy Cunningham | April 11, 2009 9:05 AM | 2 CommentsMobile, AL

  The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) recently compiled a summary of the assisted living regulations in all 50 states. The Assisted Living State Regulatory Review can be found at this web...

• Government Contractor's Rape Case Exposes Senators

  Mike Bryant | December 03, 2009 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  It was nice to see recently elected and finally seated Minnesota Senator Al Franken get his first amendment passed last month. Unfortunately, it was about a very weighty topic. The amendment to the...

• Health Care Shouldn't Be Politics As Usual

  Mike Bryant | November 30, 2009 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  After the vote to send the health care bill to the Senate floor, there was a round of Republican tweets that predicted that the vote would end the careers of Senators that voted for the bill. That...

• Delay in Diagnosis: Failure to Timely Diagnose Stoke

  Jean Martin | December 04, 2009 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC

  Caroline Monaghan was seen by her primary care physician, who determined that she possibly had blockage in her carotid arteries. Such a blockage, also known as stenosis, carries a great risk for a...

• Texas Tort Reform is NOT a Model for Nationwide Health Care Reform

  Mike Ferrara | September 07, 2009 8:24 PM | 24 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Tort reformers like to talk a lot about how the threat of malpractice suits raises health care costs by forcing doctors to practice “defensive medicine”—the ordering of...

• Slice of Humble Pie: Doctors may get Cash Bonus for an Apology

  Nick Avgerinos | May 27, 2008 2:52 PM | 3 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Medical malpractice claims cause doctors far and wide to head for the hills. After all, nothing can put a dent in many years of hard work quite like a hard-wrought fight about who messed up what...

• As Heath Care Bill Goes To The Senate Floor Focus Needs To Be On The Consumer

  Mike Bryant | November 30, 2009 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  This week, the U S Senate will be debating the Heath care bill. It is expected that the usual Republicans will spend most of their time trying to add amendments to change the civil justice system....

• Failure to Plead Sufficient Facts - The New Legal Malpractice?

  Geoff Trachtenberg | October 21, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsScottsdale, AZ

  There's a new case out this week from Division Two, Cullen v. Koty-Leavitt Insurance, which deals with the reasonable expectations doctrine in the UIM setting. The case is not particularly fascinating from a substantive perspective, but it raises questions about potential legal malpractice exposure.In sum, Cullen filed a UIM claim based upon the fact that his family was given the right to...