We cannot ignore the truth. Spoiler alert: preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease. It claims in excess of 611,000 lives each year and accounts for 25 percent of all deaths each year. There are billions of dollars devoted to research
When a victim has suffered injuries from a dog bite, what remedies does he or she have? You might think that this should have an easy answer, but it does not. Attorneys generally know that there is liability when a dog bites someone for the second time. The real difficulty is in determining what counts as the first bite. The
Medical standards of care are influenced by direct and indirect factors. This article addresses some changes initiated by both The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The standard of care requires health care providers to act with the knowledge and skill expected of others in the
The first time I handled a pill mill case I was 20 pounds thinner, had big permed hair and wore polyester. Back in the day, people didn’t understand much about pill mills, so this type of litigation was a true novelty. However, at long last, the prescription drug epidemic is taking its rightful place in the news and now almost
Since the inception of product liability litigation, particularly asbestos and other mass tort litigation, defendants have been subjected to forum shopping. Forum shopping is the practice of filing lawsuits within plaintiff – favorable jurisdictions in the hope of securing increased jury verdicts. Often, these lawsuits are filed in jurisdictions where there is minimal or almost no meaningful connection between the
This article describes some common misperceptions about medical malpractice cases, the lawyers that file them and the expert witnesses who participate in them. It is written from my perspective as an attorney for both the patients and health care providers. Representing patients in medical malpractice cases has never been the path to easy riches it is portrayed to be in
Imagine you are the representative of an insurance company handling a bodily injury claim. The injured plaintiff has $25,000 in medical expenses. Your insured’s policy has a limit of $30,000. The plaintiff makes a settlement demand for the policy limits. Because you know that $30,000 represents the extent of your company’s liability, you decide that you have nothing to lose
Zofran was approved by the FDA in 1981 for treatment of nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and post-operative patients. To this day, Zofran has never received FDA approval for use in pregnant women to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP). In 2012, The Center for BirThDefects Research and Prevention published a study that showed women who used Zofran
A potential client appears in your office with a familiar story… An aging, but relatively healthy mother lived with her daughter when she had to be admitted into the hospital for an illness. Her daughter remained by her side 24/7. Her mother was due to be released soon and the nurses encouraged the daughter to go home, take a shower,
In the 27 years since switching from representing health care providers to injured patients I have reviewed over 20,000 adverse medical events. I have reviewed reports of injuries to nearly every major body part and organ; operations on the wrong foot, leg and organ; wrong-sided cranial and hernia procedures; premature deaths from delays in diagnosing and treating cancers and heart
We cannot ignore the truth. Spoiler alert: preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. The leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease. It claims in excess of 611,000 lives each year and accounts for 25 percent of all deaths each year. There are billions of dollars devoted to research
When a victim has suffered injuries from a dog bite, what remedies does he or she have? You might think that this should have an easy answer, but it does not. Attorneys generally know that there is liability when a dog bites someone for the second time. The real difficulty is in determining what counts as the first bite. The
Medical standards of care are influenced by direct and indirect factors. This article addresses some changes initiated by both The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The standard of care requires health care providers to act with the knowledge and skill expected of others in the
The first time I handled a pill mill case I was 20 pounds thinner, had big permed hair and wore polyester. Back in the day, people didn’t understand much about pill mills, so this type of litigation was a true novelty. However, at long last, the prescription drug epidemic is taking its rightful place in the news and now almost
Since the inception of product liability litigation, particularly asbestos and other mass tort litigation, defendants have been subjected to forum shopping. Forum shopping is the practice of filing lawsuits within plaintiff – favorable jurisdictions in the hope of securing increased jury verdicts. Often, these lawsuits are filed in jurisdictions where there is minimal or almost no meaningful connection between the
This article describes some common misperceptions about medical malpractice cases, the lawyers that file them and the expert witnesses who participate in them. It is written from my perspective as an attorney for both the patients and health care providers. Representing patients in medical malpractice cases has never been the path to easy riches it is portrayed to be in
Imagine you are the representative of an insurance company handling a bodily injury claim. The injured plaintiff has $25,000 in medical expenses. Your insured’s policy has a limit of $30,000. The plaintiff makes a settlement demand for the policy limits. Because you know that $30,000 represents the extent of your company’s liability, you decide that you have nothing to lose
Zofran was approved by the FDA in 1981 for treatment of nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and post-operative patients. To this day, Zofran has never received FDA approval for use in pregnant women to treat nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP). In 2012, The Center for BirThDefects Research and Prevention published a study that showed women who used Zofran
A potential client appears in your office with a familiar story… An aging, but relatively healthy mother lived with her daughter when she had to be admitted into the hospital for an illness. Her daughter remained by her side 24/7. Her mother was due to be released soon and the nurses encouraged the daughter to go home, take a shower,
In the 27 years since switching from representing health care providers to injured patients I have reviewed over 20,000 adverse medical events. I have reviewed reports of injuries to nearly every major body part and organ; operations on the wrong foot, leg and organ; wrong-sided cranial and hernia procedures; premature deaths from delays in diagnosing and treating cancers and heart
