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: Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer BlogHospital infection lawsuits on the rise
By Hurley, McKenna & Mertz
Hospital infections are on the rise and so are lawsuits that claim medical malpractice caused the infections. The Wisconsin Law Journal recently reported that "A new type of med-mal lawsuit is on the increase -- claims based on hospital infections." According to the Law Journal, "Plaintiffs' attorneys say that hospitals can no longer argue that these infections are inevitable."
Betsy McCaughy, founder and chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, said, "This is the next asbestos. Now that the evidence is overwhelming that nearly all infections are preventable, hospitals that don't follow the proven protocols are inviting lawsuits."
Sadly, most of these infections can be prevented through stricter sanitary and bacterial testing procedures.
Full post as published by Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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