Posts tagged medical malpractice

• Is it frivolous when it affects you or yours?

  Staff Writer | June 01, 2006 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I read a story today about a Tacoma physician filing a medical malpractice lawsuit involving his wife's recent death. While you cannot make a good determination based on just what you read in the papers, it appears as if her death should have been prevented. We, of course, sympathize with the family and offer our condolences.Medical malpractice damage caps affect us all. I hope our legislators...

• Frivolous Litigation?

  Staff Writer | May 11, 2006 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today's edition of The New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on an erroneous claim often made by medical malpractice insurance companies. The insurance community-- and the current administration--- has long claimed that high premiums are brought on largely by frivolous or unfounded litigation. Today's article should settle this issue once and for all.The NEJM (the world's most prestigious...

• Medical Errors and Death in Hospitals

  Staff Writer | April 21, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent study by HealthGrades indicates that the most serious problem in U.S. hospitals is medical error. This study ranked hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Tennessee and the District of Columbia as those ranking lowest in patient safety.For more information about the medical errors study...

• Health Care Crisis

  Staff Writer | April 18, 2006 10:59 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We have all read about rising health care costs. Insurance companies would have you believe the increase is due to high medical malpractice verdicts and unscrupulous trial lawyers. As a lawyer who specializes in medical malpractice litigation and takes pride in representing the injured, it was with interest that I read the front page story in today's Wall Street Journal (April 18, 2006).The...

• Pharmacy Misfills A Fact of Life

  Staff Writer | February 21, 2006 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The statistics over the last 20 years have remained fairly consistent: 3-5% of all prescription fills at retail pharmacies result in errors, or "misfills" as they are known in the pharmacy business. This means that for every 100 prescriptions that you or your loved ones have filled, it is a statistical fact that 3-5 of them will be dispensed with some kind of error. Sometimes the wrong drug is...

• Medical Malpractice and Good Samaritans

  Staff Writer | January 07, 2006 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Rep. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction has plans to introduce a bill to the Colorado Legislature (Good Samaritans in Health Care Act of 2006) which would protect doctors who volunteer their services from medical malpractice lawsuits.The bill is viewed among its supporters as a way to protect health care providers such as nurses, doctors, physical therapists, etc. from lawsuits when they are...