Alaska updates in category: Medical Malpractice

Twins born by surogate to Dennis Quaid and wife, Kimberly Buffington, November 8, 2007 are now fighting for their lives in a Los Angeles hospital. They were negligently administers 1000 times the normal dose of Heparin, an anticoagulant, and began "bleeding out." They are now in stable condition. Packaging plays a role in this frequent medical negligence scenario. The product with the...

A report released May 24, 2007 reveals that medical malpractice insurers have been price-gouging doctors through inflated and excessive premiums and needlessly contributing to the higher costs of healthcare. The study was written by former Missouri Insurance Commissioner Jay Angoff and was based on annual reports from the top 15 medical malpractice insurance companies rated by A.M. Best. These...

The wife of a Texas man who died after surgery to upgrade his heart device has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against her husband's surgeon and the hospital at which the procedure was performed.Joseph Roberts was admitted to the hospital to upgrade his pacemaker, but the surgery left him in a vegetative state.Roberts was then transferred to intensive care, where he was found to have anoxic...

A woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against two physicians, alleging their negligence caused her severe pain, including the loss of several of her facial parts.The lawsuit, filed on April 27th in Kanawha Circuit Court, names two licensed Kanawaha County physicians.The lawsuit states the woman went to Stonestreet on October 16, 2002, with sinus pain, which was causing her right eye to...

Due to high medical costs, in part related to the high cost of medical malpractice insurance, Alaskans are being lured overseas by the low costs of medical tourism.Chuck Klemer, of the Denali area, flew to Thailand with his wife Dulce Havill to receive a hip replacement. They have no health insurance. The operation in the United States would have cost around $40,000. The cost for the trip to...

Fellow blogger David Lowe points out that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America was campaining last week to bring attention the death toll from medical errors in America's hospitals. National Patient Safety Awareness Week spread the word that "Congress Should Protect Patients, Not Those Guilty of Medical Negligence."David also directs his readers to a fact sheet provided by the National...