Texas updates in category: Medical Malpractice

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,...

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...

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...

Last night, I was watching the local news, and they ran a story about medical tourism. The premise of the story was that more and more Americans are traveling overseas to have medical procedures...

A new report is critical of a national study of an experimental blood substitute, PolyHeme, in critically injured patients never should have been allowed to take place due to the fact that earlier...

There are several resources to research whether your physician has been sued. They all have weaknesses and it is also important to remember that most all medical malpractice settlements are...

A new study published in this month’s Pediatrics magazine suggests that our children may be at much more of a risk of hospital errors than we ever could have imagined. The study claims that...

The deaths of 238,337 U.S. Medicare patients from 2004 through 2006 could have potentially been prevented if not for patient safety errors. The total number of deaths among patients who had been...

A new study released in the April edition of Pediatrics found a rate of 11 drug-related harmful events for every 100 hospitalized children - with some children affected by more than one such...

There is a developing body of judicial opinion that will place new limits on the rights of those who buy or use products, consumer advocates say. It greatly benefits big companies as it insulates...

The parents of 15-year-old Alex Koehne wanted their son to live on after passing away from what they were told was bacterial meningitis. After careful consideration Jim and Lisa Koehne decided to...

Binding arbitration agreements are increasing between physicians, nursing homes and healthcare institutions. Some states have started taking legislative action to limit the agreements. An American...

One of the benefits of tort "reform", according to its supporters, is that reform is supposed to increase access to care by making more physicians available. But in Ohio, the data is now in. Five years after the state enacted medical malpractice caps, there are fewer doctors delivering babies. Recent data also questions the claim that tort reform was necessary due to rising insurance rates. ...

In a disturbing new trend, many doctors and other medical groups are requiring patients to enter into arbitration agreements prior to the doctors providing medical care. There are many problems with pre-dispute arbitration agreements, and the biggest in my mind is that the patient is giving up rights without the benefit of counsel. Most people don't know that arbitration can be as expensive...

Ex-nurse and retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is believed to have spread Hepatitis C to 15 military service members or their relatives at El Paso's William Beaumont Army Medical Center by diverting painkiller from the patients to himself. Though details are unclear, an outbreak of Hepatitis C was reported at the hospital in 2004, and Jones tested positive for the blood-borne disease. It...