Medical Malpractice

• Web Access To Medical Malpractice Settlements

  Bob Carroll | January 15, 2006 7:42 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  If you are pondering the pros and cons of internet access to information regarding medical malpractice settlements (and have 20 minutes to spare) read the scholarly article posted at Red Orbit:Redefining the Physician Selection Process and Rewriting Medical Malpractice Settlement Disclosure WebpagesBy Brown, Matthew EEvery state provides publicly accessible physician profiles via the...

• I Wonder Where I Left My Adept Med Fish

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  I have misplaced my glasses from time to time so I guess it is hard to make the facts of this malpractice case into a criminal matter. But, leaving a foot-long surgical instrument inside a patient seems pretty careless. The official medical malpractice lingo would be a retained foreign object. This surgical team must have had a kickoff to make. The story is posted at Boston.com.A Belmont...

• Getting Emotional About Malpractice

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 6:26 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Medical providers who prescribe drugs for emotional problems are awakening to the malpractice lurking in those prescriptions. Welcome to 2006, fellas. You are just now getting concerned?Four significant issues have converged to impact and heighten concern about the potential for more malpractice litigation related to psychopharmacology:Psychiatric malpractice lawsuits frequently include...

• SUV Headrests Fail Whiplash Test

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsCheyenne, WY

  Bob Carroll at Tampa Bay Personal Injury Lawyer points out a CNN report that a recent test of seat and head restraints in SUVs revealed only six of 44 vehicles got a good rating for whiplash protection. The test, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safetypoints out that:Seats and head restraints in big SUV sellers like the Ford Explorer, Toyota 4Runner and Chevrolet TrailBlazer...

• Caps don't work

  Jeremy Thurman | January 12, 2006 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A study published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute ("AEI") in August 2005 shows that capping contigent fees isn't help accomplish tort reform. In fact they found just the opposite. The AEI study found that contingent fees: 1. Give wares and incentive to screen cases and weed out the "frivolous" ones2. Motivate lawyers to win3. Improve access to the Courts for low-income...

• Indiana Joins Minnesota In Medical Error Reporting

  Staff Writer | January 12, 2006 6:35 AM | 0 CommentsMinneapolis, MN

  Indiana has become only the second state to require hospitals to report medical errors. I am proud to say that Minnesota was the first. IN passed a law that requires hospitals and surgery centers to report errors within 15 days of discovering them. The reporting began Jan 1. The first list of errors will be available in early 2007 and will be public record.Some startling mistakes include...

• Juror Bias Affects Trial Outcomes

  Robert Blanchard | January 11, 2006 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  Many clients think that simply being on the right side of the case means they will win their case in front of a jury. What many don't realize is that every juror brings to trial their on bias and preferences which have nothing to do with the facts of the case. If a juror goes into trial believing that doctors are honest, benevolent, highly trained and competent, this juror will almost certainly...

• Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Report Released

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2006 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Jeff Guzman at Napoli Bern in NY posts about the release of the most recent edition of Child Neurology which argues that, contrary to claims by obstetricians, the majority of brachial plexus injuries do not occur in utero.Jeff notes that most studies of brachial plexus injuries are done in adults, where injuries usually take several days to be apparent via EMG.However, the textbook of Child...

• Hand-Washing Would Cut Deadly Hospital Infections

  Bob Carroll | January 09, 2006 5:43 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Hospital infections cause more deaths, but hand-washing is the solution - TimesLeader:A 2003 report in the New England Journal of Medicine called infections "by far the most common complications affecting hospitalized patients."Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth-largest killer in the United States, according to the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), a New York-based nonprofit...

• Medical Malpractice and Good Samaritans

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

  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...