A bill has been introduced in Congress to fund pilot projects in several states to test the idea of special “health courts.” An article on the bill says that “[t]he bill would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to award up to 10 demonstration grants to states…
Interested in knowing some more info on health care costs? See Rebecca Blair’s post on our Medical Malpractice Blog. You won’t believe the difference between med mal settlements and judgments in the United States and Canada.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the State’s $350,000 cap on non-economic losses is unconstitutional under the State’s equal protection clause. An excerpt: “The court must presume that the legislature’s judgment was sound and look for support for the legislative act. But the court cannot accept rationales so broad…
You won’t believe how many people died last year as a result of hospital acquired infections in Pennsylvania hospitals. Go to our Medical Malpractice Blog at www.medmalblog.com to find out.
Want to know how at least one defense lawyer plans on defending a brachial plexus injury case? Go to our Medical Malpractice blog.
Here is a fascinating article from the Cato Institute on malpractice and malpractice reform. Pass it around to your friends – and your legislators.
Go to our Medical Malpractice Blog to read about how you can see operations from your desk.
Consumers and trial lawyers have been saying for years that if doctors would do a better job establishing standards and policing their own there would be less injuries and death and therefore less malpractice claims and (maybe) lower malpractice insurance. The anesthesiologists figured this out and today, in constant dollars,…
As a lawyer who has done medical malpractice work for 24 years I am embarrassed to say this, but I came across this little tidbit a couple weeks ago while preparing for an argument in the Tennessee Supreme Court. Do we have the discovery rule for med mal cases? “Yes.”…
This is a fascinating opinion. Defendants in medical negligence cases try to argue that, say, because a bowel is perforated in 15 in 10,000 cases of a certain surgery it was not negligent to perforate the bowel in the subject surgery. The Supreme Court of Virginia just ruled that that…