- Nick Avgerinos | August 07, 2008 2:52 PM | Chicago-Land, IL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
What’s a ‘never event’? That was my first question, too, when I heard about this new development. ‘Never event’ is the term used to describe medical errors that should never happen. Despite the...
- Nick Avgerinos | May 27, 2008 2:52 PM | Chicago-Land, IL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
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...
- Pete Flowers | March 28, 2012 12:46 PM | Windy City, IL
Category:
Medical Devices & Implants
A recent program on NPR gave a fairly comprehensive overview of the dangers of metal on metal hip replacement devices. I’ve copied the link below, and I encourage you to give it a...
- Jamie G. Goldstein | January 25, 2011 10:00 AM | Chicago, IL
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
Many of those affected by the recent DePuy recall of ASR include senior citizens. Now, a new study shows there is a correlation amongst seniors between hip fractures and stroke. The study, coming...
- Nick Avgerinos | July 29, 2008 10:22 AM | Rockford & Moline, IL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Early this July, the CEO of large hospital in Boston posted a blog entitled: “The message you hope never to send.” Talk about a jarring headline for anyone with loved ones at the hospital. What...
- Nick Avgerinos | June 26, 2008 10:36 AM | Chicago-Land, IL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
To apply the law to a given situation, specific facts are needed. Legal battles then center upon a game of “he said, she said,” leading to a messy fight and often less-than-ideal resolution. But...