Sat. November 22, 2008
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WSAZ-TV
November 21, 2008
In a 4-1 ruling, the high court said Paul and Melissa Forshey missed the deadline to file a medical malpractice lawsuit by one year. medical malpractice ...
Best Syndication
November 21, 2008
The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine performed an extensive study to research medical malpractice. Among other disturbing results, ...
Chicago Tribune
November 21, 2008
AP
Des Moines,
Iowa - The Iowa Supreme Court is sending the case of a woman who sued her doctors for failing to diagnose
breast cancer back to a lower court ...
AboutLawsuits.com
November 20, 2008
A
jury in Northeast
Pennsylvania awarded a child with cerebral palsy $20.5 million in a
medical malpractice lawsuit filed as a result of mistakes that ...
Gloucester Daily Times
November 20, 2008
But the fact that trustees were even considering such a move points to the litigious environment in which hospitals,
physicians,
nurses and midwives operate ...
KLAS-TV
November 19, 2008
The
Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners found Pappa's admitting
physician, Doctor Dolue Ezeanolue guilty of malpractice for failing to use reasonable ...
Deseret News
November 19, 2008
A medical malpractice arbitration act scheduled to sunset next July ought to remain on the books another 10 years, the Legislature's Heath and Human Interim ...
Legal News Line
November 19, 2008
BY CHRIS RIZO SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) - If the
Illinois Supreme Court decides to strike down limits on
medical malpractice awards it could mean ...
Boston Globe (registration)
November 18, 2008
The
Massachusetts Medical Society reported that 83 percent of
physicians surveyed said they have practiced so-called defensive medicine and that an average ...
USA Today
November 17, 2008
By Rita Rubin,
USA TODAY The
physicians' Foundation, an Irving,
Texas, non-profit group of state medical societies and physician leaders, commissioned a ...
Sun-Sentinel.com
November 17, 2008
Dr. Donald Snyder dropped his Boca Raton family practice several years ago because of the high cost of medical malpractice insurance and office operations, ...
Salt Lake Tribune
November 17, 2008
LaRohnda Dennison said the clinic could save thousands by stopping prenatal care because medical malpractice insurance is so high for the specialty, ...
Earthtimes (press release)
November 17, 2008
Still, most of Wits End: Medical Humor at Its Brainiest is sure to make anyone, even malpractice lawyers, laugh. You don't need a medical degree to admire ...
Insurance Journal
November 17, 2008
A 2005 law limiting the amount of money
juries may award in
medical malpractice cases unfairly targets those most seriously injured who deserve the most ...
MarketWatch
November 17, 2008
Elizabeth Taylor Jorden, DNSC, RNC, John Hopkins University School of Nursing; New Concepts in Malpractice for Birth Professionals. ...
eMaxHealth.com
November 17, 2008
medical malpractice reform - He explores a number of medical malpractice reform ideas around the theme of no fault health courts but makes no specific ...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
November 17, 2008
Its intent was to lower
medical malpractice liability insurance rates, which were blamed for driving
physicians, particularly specialists, out of the state. ...
Scranton Times
November 17, 2008
By ERIN L. NISSLEY A Lackawanna County
jury awarded a Jermyn family $20.5 million in a
medical malpractice suit that followed a boy's lasting medical ...
Boston Globe
November 17, 2008
The report found that 83 percent of
physicians surveyed reported practicing defensive medicine and that an average of 18 to 28 percent of tests, ...
Bizjournals.com
November 17, 2008
Pennsylvania hospitals and
physicians are making one last push this week to get the state's Mcare abatement program extended before the state House adjourns ...
Scranton Times-Tribune
November 16, 2008
The declines are commonly linked to the state Supreme Court's 2003 requirement that independent
physicians certify that
medical malpractice lawsuits have ...
Las Vegas Sun
November 15, 2008
For example, Dr. David Kloth, a prominent
Connecticut physician, said it was stunning that the board had not disciplined Buckwalter. ...
Janesville Gazette
November 15, 2008
Wisconsin's malpractice environment. It is better than in
Illinois, Ripsch said. That can draw
physicians who have ties to Illinois to work across the state ...
London Free Press
November 15, 2008
By JANE SIMS A
medical malpractice case that awarded $5.3 million to a
London teenager and her family may be heading to the Supreme Court of
Canada after ...
Boston Globe
November 14, 2008
The
parents of the boy, Jason Fox, allege that the hospital and doctors failed to provide the Board of Registration in Medicine an important medical record ...
Denver Business Journal
November 14, 2008
Doctors fiercely opposed the bill, saying it would have increased
medical malpractice and forced some
physicians to leave the
market. ...
Belleville News Democrat
November 14, 2008
By JOHN O'CONNOR - AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A 2005 law limiting the amount of money
juries may award in
medical malpractice cases unfairly ...
Las Vegas Sun
November 14, 2008
Dr. Jerry Calvanese, an emergency medicine
physician in Reno, reviewed on behalf of the medical board the four patient files. They were not the same cases ...
InjuryBoard.com
November 14, 2008
The truth is that medical professionals commit malpractice all of the time. Some doctors, like in the case above, are licenced as surgeons but are not ...
Boston Globe
November 14, 2008
The controversy comes amid a larger debate in the medical and legal communities about maternity care and high medical malpractice insurance premiums paid by ...
So Md News
November 14, 2008
Like most other
physicians across the country, particularly obstetricians and gynecologists, he said he has to deal with
medical malpractice lawsuits. ...
Chicago Tribune
November 14, 2008
... such as for pain and suffering,
juries could award in
medical malpractice cases to $500000 against doctors and $1 million against hospitals. ...
Forbes
November 13, 2008
AP , 11.13.08, 12:48 PM EST Supporters of limits on
medical malpractice jury awards told the
Illinois Supreme Court they're a reasonable way to keep doctors ...
PR Web (press release)
November 13, 2008
Reduce malpractice and defensive medicine costs: Currently
physicians order unnecessary and expensive tests in order to reduce malpractice exposure and to ...
InjuryBoard.com
November 13, 2008
The result appears to be nothing short of a medical miracle. Twenty months after undergoing the procedure, he no longer tests positive for AIDS. ...
The Epoch Times
November 12, 2008
() What was supposed to be a routine procedure to repair torn ligaments in Hao Chan's ankles turned into a five-year medical malpractice battle with a ...
Salt Lake Tribune
November 12, 2008
medical malpractice reform. Change the standard of proof a plaintiff must meet when suing a provider and give malpractice protections if a provider follows ...
Fox5 KVVU
November 12, 2008
LAS VEGAS -- Four former patients have filed class-action lawsuits against a Las Vegas optometrist with a history of medical malpractice claims. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 12, 2008
"Almost any negative outcome of a
baby is cause for malpractice, whether or not the doctor has done everything right," Katz said. "If our medical system ...
Livemint
November 12, 2008
Ramola Bhuyan, who works with the
World Bank here, says she is speaking out because she wants to make sure those responsible for this medical negligence be ...
