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2009 Medical Malpractice Claims Reports Due March 1, 2010

The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has released the forms for reporting on medical malpractice claims for the 2009 calendar year. The reports are due March 1, 2010. Here are the instructions for filling out forms as a representative of the claimant.  Here is  the link to the reporting…

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Tennessee Nursing Homes – 5th Worst in United States

Tennessee’s nursing homes rank the 5th worst in the United States, according to an analysis done by the Tennessean.    The February 3, 2010 article points out that  [a]bout 15,000 nursing homes nationwide got ratings of one to five stars, with five being the best, from the U.S. Centers for…

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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claims Report – 2008

The Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claims Report for 2009 (which reports data for 2008) contains lots of information of interest to lawyers who represent Tennesseans in medical malpractice claims. Last week I wrote about the number of claims closed in 2008 and the amount paid on these claims. Today I will…

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2009 Medical Malpractice Claims Report Released

The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance has released the 2009 Medical Malpractice Claims Report.  Despite its title, the Report reveals data for calendar year 2008. This is the fifth report issued by the Department and contains more different types of data than released in previous years because of a…

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Tennessee Data From the National Practioners Data Bank

The National Practioners Data Bank collects data about malpractice claims paid by health care professionals.   The NPDB has a report that lists all of medical malpractice paid claims against all Tennessee health care providers between September 1, 1990 through November 29, 2009, a period one month short of 20 years.…

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Nevada Supreme Court Restricts Lawsuits Against Pharamacies

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that a pharmacy does not owe a duty of care to unidentified third parties who were injured by a pharmacy customer who was driving while under the influence of controlled prescription drugs.  In reaching the decision, the court rejected the arguments that  pharmacies have a…

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Problem Nurses Move From State to State

Today’s Tennessean has an article originally published in the  Los Angeles Times that reveals  a problem with nurses moving from state to state and leaving behind a bad disciplinary record. The article reports that "using public databases and state disciplinary reports, reporters found hundreds of cases in which registered nurses…

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Physicians in the United States Less Likely to Use Health Information Technology

According to the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, only 46 percent of U.S. doctors use electronic medical records, compared to 99 percent of doctors in the Netherlands and 97 percent of doctors in New Zealand and Norway. "We spend far more than any of the other countries in…

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Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates

 From the American Association for Justice:   State tort reforms have provided a boon to insurance companies, leading to record profits while physician and patient premiums continue to skyrocket. An analysis of data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and company annual statements shows malpractice insurer profits are…

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When to Evaluate for a Hypercoagulable State

The Doctors Company is a medical malpractice insurer.  Its website contains articles of interest to all Tennessee medical malpractice lawyers and, in fact, medical malpractice lawyers in every state. For example, one interesting article is titled "When to Evaluate for a Hypercoagulable State."   Here is an excerpt:   Hypercoagulability…

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