Posts tagged medical malpractice

• More Proof There Is No Medical Malpractice Crisis

  Staff Writer | April 19, 2006 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to amednews.com (The Newspaper For America's Physicians), liability issues are becoming a lesser factor in specialty choices by medical student's. The 2006 National Resident Matching Program held March 16 provided proof that medical students are more concerned with lifestyle concerns. The results established matches for 85.1% in Family Medicine; 97.9% in Internal Medicine; 97.9% in...

• U.S. HOSPITAL ERRORS KEEP RISING

  Staff Writer | April 14, 2006 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new study of healthcare ratings increases the number of medical errors leading to "patient safety incidents" from 1.14 million to 1.24 million over successive three year periods. The financial effect of these errors was calculated as $9.3 billion in excess costs. This HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals study also found that 250,246 (of the 304,702 deaths following at least one...

• Bad Faith Verdict and New Suits

  Staff Writer | March 29, 2006 11:58 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical Health Insurance policyholders must be ever vigilant to get the benefits they've paid for these days, as we are reminded by two recent cases. In Marion County, a fomer hospital worker won a $1.5 Million Verdict against Lubermen's Mutual Casualty Co. for terminating her disability benefits in bad fath. Elsewhere, Blue Cross Of California has been sued by 10 former members whose health...

• Medical Malpractice "Crisis" That Wasn't Is Over

  Staff Writer | March 06, 2006 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Just as Consumer Rights organizations predicted, the so-called "Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis" has ended, not because of Tort "Reform", but because of the cyclical nature of insurance underwriting and investment returns.According to the American Inusrance Reform study, physician premiums increased 0% in 2005, after a modest 3%in 2004. Before that, in 2002, they had skyrocket 63%. The...

• Hawaii Jury Hears Screwball Defense from Screwdriver Surgeon

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It should not be surprising that Dr. Robert Ricketson is acting as his own lawyer before a jury in Hilo, Hawaii; since no defense attorney could keep a straight face while telling his story as a Medical Malpractice Defendant. Dr. Ricketson chose to use a screwdriver to stabilize a patient's spine, when the titanium rods he should have used were missing from the O.R. Of course, the screwdriver...

• First Wisconsin Verdict Since Med Mal Caps Struck Down

  Staff Writer | February 08, 2006 3:42 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A jury in Waupun, Wisconsin awarded $8 Million in total damages, of which $4 Million were non-economic (pain, suffering, and loss of consortium). Fortunately for the Plaintiff, this is the first verdict in a Medical Malpractice case since the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the Medical Malpractice Caps on Damages last July. Under the previous Caps on Damages Law, the plaintiff and her...

• Tennessee Verdict for Emergency Room Nonchalance

  Staff Writer | January 31, 2006 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The largest Medical Malpractice Verdict ever in Warren County, Tennessee has been awared to the widow of a patient who died 30 minutes after being discharged without treatment by a nurse practitioner. The jury found against River Park Hospital after hearing evidence that the patient had complained of intense left arm pain but was told to go home. I suggest that patient's and their families...

• Medical Malpractice Endangers Doctor's License

  Staff Writer | December 28, 2005 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Illinois State Medical Board has recommended that Dr. Joshua Salvador's license to practice be suspended immediately due to a long list of medical malpractice cases against the Chicago physician.The board cited Salvador for three instances of gross negligence, including sending a woman home with a perforated bladder after performing surgery to remove a uterine fibroid tumor and failing to...