Regional updates in category: Medical Malpractice

Wrong site....Wrong patient....Wrong procedure! Anyway you cut it (pun intended)....it is bad news for the patient! Recently reviewed data in Pennsylvania shows that a near miss or actual...

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that a Georgia cap limiting non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases has been found unconstitutional by a Fulton County Superior Court Judge because...

This week, movie star (and part-time Austin resident) Dennis Quaid spent a considerable amount of time speaking to Congress about preemption. Quaid told Congress the oft-repeated story of his twins,...

The results of a new study, published in a report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, indicate that exercise may reduce the risk of breast cancer for woman. Researchers looked at data from...

Federal guidelines issued May 7, 2008 require that doctors who treat smokers must warn their patients of the dangers of smoking as well as prescribe treatments to enable them to quit smoking....

Patients harmed by Lasik eye surgery met with federal health advisers to complain of severe eye pain, blurred vision and even a son’s suicide. Advisers have asked the Food and Drug Administration...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Medical Association, and their various lobbyists have been screaming for years that medical malpractice law suits are driving up doctors' insurance...

Kudos to a Fulton Superior Court (Georgia) judge Marvin Arrington! Last week Judge Arrington found his state's law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases to be invalid. In 2005, the Georgia...

Yesterday Nevada health officials released the findings of a probe investigating the patients treated at Las Vegas clinics that allegedly reused single use medication vials and syringes. This...

Seventy-seven more people have been diagnosed with hepatitis C that may be traced to a Las Vegas outpatient clinic, where all these people had been treated. The 77 people are among about 400...

A doctor was arrested Tuesday, May 6, for writing numerous illegal painkiller prescriptions, which led to the death of a 28 year-old. Dr. Wesley Albert, 78, is being held for investigation of...

A Fulton County Georgia judge has struck down the cap on monetary awards in a medical malpractice case. If that decision is upheld on appeal it could undercut a major component of Georgia's tort...

I could not believe the story when I first read it. Hospital administrators failed to report a sexual assault of a patient to the police. You have got to be kidding me! Police were called to...

I saw a story that the North Carolina Medical Board is considering making medical malpractice data available to consumers. The board would publish the doctor's name, the settlement amount, and an...

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.