Medical Malpractice

• U.S. Health Care System Should Embrace Greater Transparency

  David Mittleman | March 10, 2011 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  For all the things that could go wrong, air travel is one of the safest methods of transportation available today. One of the major reasons for this is the industry's commitment to transparency and...

• Indiana Jury Renders $2.5 Million Verdict to Dying Man

  Diego Avila | March 08, 2011 10:26 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  The jury deliberated seriously and intently for six hours. They had listened to four days of testimony in a medical malpractice trial involving a dying man's claim that his doctor had failed to...

• 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...

• Damage Caps are Just Another Big Business Power Grab

  Camryn Hansen | March 06, 2011 3:16 PM | 3 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  The Houston Chronicle published an excellent article on tort reform this week that everyone even remotely interested in the topic needs to read. Big business interests are making a concerted...

• Another Leading Conservative Rejects Tort Reform Proposals

  Brett Emison | March 05, 2011 12:34 PM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO

  Carter Wrenn offers another excellent analysis showing why conservatives should reject tort reform proposals. A jury may still hear a medical malpractice case but it will not be told about...

• Bacterial Infections: Good, Bad, and Deadly

  Michael Monheit | March 04, 2011 7:41 AM | 1 CommentCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  Bacterial infections can be deadly. Many bacterial infections are misdiagnosed which may be considered medical malpractice. The below bacterial infections are by no means a complete list of...

• AAJ: House Medical Liability Bill “Beyond Extreme”

  Steve Klearman | March 03, 2011 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  The following is a statement from American Association for Justice (AAJ) President Gibson Vance in response to H.R. 5, a “medical liability reform” bill that was introduced in January in...

• But I Could Have Died! Don’t I Have a Virginia Medical Malpractice Case?

  Ben Glass | March 02, 2011 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  In life, there are a lot of “what ifs.” What if you had made a different decision? What if that illness hadn’t occurred? What if your doctor’s error had caused you injury, or...

• Health Courts Another Bad Tort Reform Idea

  Jim Lewis | March 01, 2011 1:58 PM | 4 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA

  Some tort reform advocates not so keen on arbitrarily limiting damages for victims are proposing another idea to significantly alter our country’s medical malpractice system – health...

• Brooklyn Hospital Exposed Babies to Unnecessary Radiation

  Paul Napoli | March 01, 2011 1:57 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY

  February 28, 2011 Technicians at a New York hospital improperly X-rayed premature babies, exposing their whole bodies to dangerous radiation, reports The New York Times. The radiology department...