Posts tagged malpractice

• Funeral Home Malpractice: Body Snatching and Medical Transplants

  Laura Blatt | May 23, 2007 12:27 AM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Three funeral home directors and four employees of a biomedical supply company are accused of stealing body parts, organs and tissue from corpses awaiting cremation or burial. Other charges include opening graves, unlawful dissection and fraud. The defendants allegedly sold the parts to medical tissue banks, which provided them to hospitals and doctors for use in transplants and other medical...

• Funeral Home Negligence: CA Mortician Loses License

  Laura Blatt | May 17, 2007 12:32 AM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A mortician's license was indefinitely suspended for improperly storing bodies, allowing them to decay in a warehouse without proper refrigeration. Anthony Villeggiante is co-owner of Abby Chapel of the Redwoods in Rohnert Park, California. The mortuary has now been shut down. When state inspectors checked the warehouse in March, they found nine bodies. A swamp cooler and baby powder did nothing...

• Former Crematory Owners Plead Guilty to Negligence

  Christina Cole | May 04, 2007 10:52 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The former owners of Bayview Crematory that was closed over two years ago after investigators discovered remains and a body in a broken cooler - have agreed to plead guilty to several charges. Charges included negligence and the filing of false tax returns.The crematorium that handled close to 2,000 bodies each year from funeral homes in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire had been operating...

• Time Change Could Result in Medical Malpractice

  Rick Patterson | March 15, 2007 12:08 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Although it has been known since 2005 that daylight saving time (DST) would change from its usual time this year, not everyone has prepared for those changes. It seems that daylight saving time may adversely affect computers, clocks, machinery and the like. This would clearly lead to problems i.e., banking. However, what is a much more serious situation than banking, is the adverse affect the...

• Patient Causes Change in Medical Malpractice Law

  Rick Patterson | March 14, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Here is something to think about: Do you carry medical malpractice insurance? Do you receive medical treatment from doctors who do not? Did you know that 98,000 Americans die each year in our hospitals due to misdiagnoses and medical errors? Another noteworthy fact is that medical malpractice is the eighth most common cause of death in America. It is a fact of life; I'm afraid.Janet Mitchell...

• Federal Malpractice Award Cap Legislation

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2007 has been recently been introduced. The Act would set a cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits."Medical liability reform works, and it's turning the tide against frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury awards," said Ensign, who is a veterinarian. "We've seen it in California, in Texas and in my home state of Nevada, where...

• Medical Malpractice

  Rick Patterson | January 05, 2007 1:56 PM | 0 CommentsLancaster, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical malpractice is an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and which causes injury to the patient. The American Academy of Family Physicians looks to a study entitled "Learning from Malpractice Claims about Negligent, Adverse Events in Primary Care in the United States", in suggesting that the medical community...

• Medical Group Hires Firm to Review Medical Malpractice Rates

  Christina Cole | December 19, 2006 10:29 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Florida Medical Association has hired a firm to review medical malpractice insurance rates that a state consumer advocate has accused as being too expensive.The South Carolina firm, Bartlett Actuarial Group, was asked to review the finding of the consumer advocate, according to the Medical Association. "We are obviously worried about the rates," said Lisette Mariner, spokeswoman for the...