Posts tagged malpractice

• New York Initiating Judge-Directed Negotiation in Medical Malpractice Cases

  Noble McIntyre | June 14, 2011 4:16 PM | 2 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Yesterday The New York Times featured an article about an Obama-led initiative to reduce medical malpractice costs. The process is known as judge-directed negotiation and gets judges involved...

• Tort Reform Does Not Equal Health Care Reform

  Jeremy Thurman | March 24, 2010 5:28 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I will be the first to admit that I am not a big fan of the newly enacted health care reform signed into law by President Obama. While some of the provisions I may agree with, as a general point I...

• The Medical Malpractice Crisis Myth Continues to be Debunked

  Jeremy Thurman | March 10, 2010 12:46 PM | 4 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new report from Health Care Finance News continues to debunk the myth promulgated by insurance companies and their “paid-for” politicians that the nation is in a medical...

• Botched Butt Enhancement Procedures Sends 6 to Hospital

  Jeremy Thurman | March 08, 2010 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  We live in a society where mothers are and daughters are under increasing pressure to look like a certain celebrity or model. In most cases, plastic surgery is on the only option to get the...

• Oklahoma GOP - Are Caps Conservative?

  Jeremy Thurman | November 22, 2008 12:11 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A story on wcbstv.com exemplifies the fallacy behind the Oklahoma GOP’s vain attempt to push tort reform more aptly named Civil Amnesty as it’s not reform but Amnesty for big business...

• Nurse Infects Patients and Keeps Practicing

  Jeremy Thurman | March 21, 2008 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The following reported by Yahoo is just another scary incident where the medical profession has failed to police itself. With all the talk of tort reform et al, this gives me the biggest evidence against such. Doctors and medical professionals routinely fail to police themselves leaving on us medical malpractice lawyers to do such. I have seen simliar circumstances of coverup, lies and...

• Two doctors cleared in John Ritter's death

  Jeremy Thurman | March 14, 2008 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It just came accross on yahoo.com that 2 of actor's John Ritter's doctors were cleared of negligence in this high profile medical malpractice case. Yahoo is reporting that the jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist today of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter, who died of a torn aorta in 2003. Jurors found that the radiologist advised Ritter to follow up with...

• A Lawyers Utopia - My Rant Against Tort Reform

  Jeremy Thurman | March 08, 2008 1:21 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I was discussing tort reform with a friend today and I heard my favorite term, Jackpot Justice. Of course I convinced my friend of the error of his ways and the utter fallacy of the tort reform movement. However, I got to thinking, what is Jackpot Justice. I better add a disclaimer, after reading this, this is truly a late night rant against the rhetoric of politicians.Now understand one...

• Personal Injury Statute of Limitations - Oklahoma

  Jeremy Thurman | March 06, 2008 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I just recieved one of those calls that every attorney fears. A potential client calls telling me how his daughter was hurt seriously in an accident and that he has been unsuccessfully trying to deal with the insurance company for a long time. He stated his daughter had numerous medical bills and needed an attorney. He told me she had back surgery and permanent injuries. For those of us in...

• Study Finds Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance

  Jeremy Thurman | February 18, 2008 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  I just saw the following article from the New York Times discussing a new study by the American Cancer Society which has found that the uninsured and those covered by Medicaid are more likely than those with private insurance to receive a diagnosis of cancer in late stages, often diminishing their chances of survival.