Posts tagged medical malpractice

• How Much Do Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Contribute to Health Care Costs?

  Mike Ferrara | September 19, 2010 1:43 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A lot of opponents to health care reform like to blame the skyrocketing cost of health care on medical malpractice lawsuits. Their reasoning is that if we just limit medical liability and...

• Marine, 29, Died of Skin Cancer due to Military Medical Malpractice – Family Not Allowed to Sue. Time to End Anti-Military Feres Doctrine

  Mike Ferrara | March 29, 2009 6:58 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Because of a 1950 Supreme Court ruling called the Feres Doctrine, active-duty military personnel and their families are prohibited from suing the federal government for injuries unrelated...

• Pfizer Wins Victory in Celebrex Litigation - All Bextra Cases and Some Celebrex Cases Remain

  Mike Ferrara | November 25, 2007 12:20 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed some Celebrex cases, giving Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) a partial victory. The only cases dismissed are those of patients who were using 200 mg. of Celebrex. Judge Breyer found that there was insufficient scientific proof that this amount of Celebrex caused heart attacks or strokes as some doctors have alleged. This ruling only affects cases pending in...

• Preventing preventable infections

  Donald Caminiti | December 12, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Drug-resistant infections are headline news lately, especially the illnesses and deaths caused by tough and evolving bPreventing MRSA Infections and Deaths Becomes Bigger Priority The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came right out and said it: MRSA infections, primarily those related to health care, are a "major public health problem." Upfront in its report in the...

• Pain and Suffering Caps on lawsuits are unfair

  Donald Caminiti | February 26, 2008 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since the fall after surgery to remove a cyst, is one of 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas' medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, challenges the 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act, which limits awards in Texas. The lawsuit asks...

• 35% Of All Doctors Violate AMA Ethics Rules When They Accept Gifts From Drug Companies - Changes Are Needed

  Mike Ferrara | August 06, 2007 9:53 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In an underreported story in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, a representative from the American Medical Association writes to point out that it is unethical for doctors to accept gifts from drug companies. The AMA ethics opinion E-8.061 has been around since 1990. The New England Journal published an article in their April 26, 2007 issue that presented disturbing evidence...

• Common Cold Medicines Cause Strokes in Women - Check Your Medicine Cabinet Today

  Mike Ferrara | October 26, 2007 9:50 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Phenylpropanolamine. Phenylpropanolamine. Phenylpropanolamine. This is the word you must look for on your cold medicines. If it's there, throw the bottle out or take it back for a refund. A study has shown that women have a greater chance of getting a hemorrhagic stroke, which is a bleeding in the brain, in the three day period after they start use of the cold medicine. Women...

• Niki Trunk Appointed to Trial Lawyer Board of Governors

  Mike Ferrara | February 06, 2007 1:21 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Congratulations to Niki Trunk on her appointment to the Board of Governors of the ATLA-NJ, The New Jersey Trial Lawyer Association. President Marc Saperstein made the appointment on January 1, 2007. Niki joins about 70 personal injury lawyers on the Board of Governors. ATLA-NJ is composed of 2500 attorneys who represent consumers who are injured by defective products, injured in car...

• Woman Gets Back Surgery - Wakes Up To Find Tatoo Below Panty Line - Doctor Unapologetic

  Mike Ferrara | July 20, 2008 1:04 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Doctor puts red rose tatoo on woman's private area while she was under anethesia following surgery on her back.

• Pointless procedural hoops on lawsuits

  Donald Caminiti | January 02, 2008 2:33 PM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Charleston Daily Mail recently reported on made up absurd courtroom situations in an effort to pass so called medical malpractice lawsuit reform legislation. State Supreme Court Justice Larry Starcher was qoted in a dissent as having stated:"I dissent to express my hope that, in the future, the court or the Legislature will recognize the absurd and unconstitutional effects of the (reform)...