Posts tagged malpractice

• Medical malpractice reform as debt reduction strategy doesn't make sense

  Craig Kelley | October 14, 2011 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsCouncil Bluffs, IA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Fixing our country’s economic situation is no small task and it certainly involves tough decisions about programs and issues that affect all of us. Apparently, one of the many options being...

• $3.7 Awarded in Indiana Cerebral Palsy Case

  Shannon Weidemann | February 28, 2008 8:40 AM | 0 CommentsDavenport, IA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A child was born in 2001 via c-section and is now suffering from cerebral palsy. Her family believes it was a lack of oxygen during birth and that doctors were too slow in her delivery. A jury in Indiana agreed and awarded them $3.7 Million in the medical malpractice case. Indiana limits medical malpractice awards, so the judgment on the three claims will be reduced to just under $2 million,...