Iowa updates in category: Medical Malpractice

This post is another one, in a series of posts about tort reform measures and how they are working. Remember how they were to improve your health care? Read Arnold Wax, MD's article from Medical Economics, The downside of tort reform.

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Could this happen to you? You complain about leg pain. A medical test is run on the 2nd of June. The result is a positive finding. Put on hold the radiologist hangs up, doesn't speak directly to the ordering physician who never gets the message of blood clots being the positive finding. On the 8th of June the patient dies from a pulmonary embolism. Can this happen in your health care system? Is this your health care system? Or is it a story about health care from an undeveloped country?

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There are several reasons lawyers won’t comment on the terms of a settlement, the main one being a confidentiality clause being one term of settlement. It’s not uncommon for companies who pay...

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Today we discuss medical malpractice settlements and why lawyers remain hush about the terms.

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Read Steve Lombardi's blog today about how doctors are now promoting legal protections the US medical malpractice provides to patients when getting substandard care.

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A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Iowa Methodist Medical Center because she says that a medical mistake caused by the hospital led to her have an abortion. Kristy Oswald claims that hospital...

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Sterilization techniques improperly performed can lead to an unplanned pregnancy with costs the family is incapable of managing. Is there a negligence claim against the physician who performed the...

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A jury in Connecticut awarded a family $38 Million after deciding a doctor was liable for their child's cerebral palsy. It is believed to be one of the largest medical malpractive verdicts. Cerebral palsy can be a birth injury when a baby goes too long without oxygen. Attorney's for the plantiff argued that the doctor waited far too long to perform a c-section. "The first baby was born at...

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A child was born in 2001 via c-section and is now suffering from cerebral palsy. Her family believes it was a lack of oxygen during birth and that doctors were too slow in her delivery. A jury in Indiana agreed and awarded them $3.7 Million in the medical malpractice case. Indiana limits medical malpractice awards, so the judgment on the three claims will be reduced to just under $2 million,...

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Know your rights, protect yourself and guard against those preaching tort deform. Because with tort deform there is usually someone asking to avoid legal responsibility. Tort deforminst wrap up their deform package in a nicely wrapped arguement that they are only trying to save you money. In reality you are all only one mishap away from being the people calling my office getting good advice that...

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I realize that a doctor getting sued for malpractice is disturbing to say the least but in it's most recent cases the Court's decision have gone too far in favor of making doctors a privileged litigation class. The Iowa Supreme Court's most recent decisions have not been kind to patient rights but instead have severely restricted the rights of surgical patients to bring suit following surgery....

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Most of these bad-result surgical cases are as a result of a known risk of procedure. One such case I looked at was for clipping the saphenous nerve during a knee reconstruction surgery. Others have to do with infections when the bowel is clipped during the surgery. Terrible results from seemingly common low-risk surgical procedures. And the patient is first disappointed, then frustrated and...

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We are all just one accident away from being a victim of tort deform.How do thirteen patients accidentally get a multiple doses of a drug as is prescribed? How do twin infants get 1000 times the required dosage? That is exactly what happened at Cedars Medical Center in Los Angeles to the Quaid twins. Sources tell us the twins -- Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace -- were accidentally given a massive...

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It's about time the blue suits running your hospital took a back seat to the doctors who know about health. If you were a patient in a hospital and the hospital staff knew that other patients had contracted an infectious disease called MRSA, before you checked in would you want to be warned about what you could do to protect yourself? MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus is an...

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A jury awarded $13.5 million in damages against Broadlawns Hospital. Young Nathan Gardner has a terrible condition that will be with him the remainder of his life. And his parents will be strapped with the cost of time and money to take care of his cerebral palsy. Depriving a fetus of oxygen can cause cerebral palsy and in this case the jury saw the light of day finding liability against those...

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