Posts tagged malpractice

• Fisher Invokes Fifth Amendment over 40 Times

  Jeremy Thurman | January 29, 2008 9:48 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Daily Oklahoman January 29, 2008 By Don Mecoy Business Writer Imprisoned former state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 40 times during a civil trial Monday in federal court to avoid answering questions about his relationship with American Fidelity Assurance Co. "I respectfully decline to answer that question, sir," Fisher said repeatedly, claiming...

• Preventative Medicine

  Noble McIntyre | October 31, 2006 2:46 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Its election time folks and once again we are hearing the reverberations of the myth known as tort reform echo through the state. Without broaching the utter myth and lies associated with those promoting tort reform, I thought I would delve into one specific area in which doctors and those promoting such reforms like to use as a talking point. That issue is the fact that doctors feel they have...

• 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...

• Guidelines on Venous Thromboembolism From AAFP and ACP

  Jacob Diesselhorst | March 15, 2007 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Current Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism in Primary Care: A Clinical Practice Guideline from the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of PhysiciansAmir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA1; Vincenza Snow, MD, MS1; Patricia Barry, MD, MPH2; E. Rodney Hornbake, MD3; Jonathan E. Rodnick, MD4; Timothy Tobolic, MD5; Belinda Ireland, MD, MS6; Jodi Segal, MD7; Eric Bass, MD, MPH7; Kevin...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Facts about the state of medical malpractice litigation in Oklahoma

  Jacob Diesselhorst | February 13, 2007 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Facts about the current Medical Malpractice Condition in Oklahoma and U.S.According to the Federation of Medical Boards, Oklahoma moved to 4th per capita for number of doctors in 2005. This is up from 6th per capita in 2005."We are doing fine said Carl T. Hook, M.D., President of PLICO. "The first six months of this year we have a net income of 21 Million, which will be applied to the company's...

• 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...