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Medical Malpractice Law News 
Tracks News and Trends in Medical Malpractice Law in United States.
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By Mary R. Kennedy
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Pennsylvania: Is Medical Malpractice Crisis Over?
Posted on October 28, 2007The jury is still out on this one, but Philadelphia's Bulletin just published an article titled, Critics Dispute Rendell's Assertion Malpractice Crisis?Has Come To End.A few facts:"Mr. Rendell, a Democrat who has vocally opposed Republican-led efforts to cap damage awards and lawyers' contingency fees in medical liability cases told reporters and health care experts at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia that a number of policy changes made since 2002 have contributed to a decline in medical malpractice litigation in the state...
Maine Jury Awards $8 Million Malpractice Award
Posted on October 28, 2007The Boston Globe reports on October 25, 2007:AUBURN, Maine ? A jury Thursday awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its midwives. It is believed to be the largest malpractice award ever handed down in Androscoggin County Superior Court...
Massachusetts Jury Awards $26.5M Med Mal C-section delay
Posted on October 16, 2007The Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports on October 12, 2007 that a Suffolk jury issues largest med-mal verdict of the year."In what appears to be the largest reported medical malpractice jury verdict of 2007, the jury found two doctors liable for the child?s condition, but a nurse defendant was found not negligent...
New Hampshire's Malpractice Screening Law and How it Works
Posted on October 15, 2007This Boston Globe article looks at New Hampshire's medical malpractice screening panels and how they work."Medical malpractice screening panels were developed in the 1970s in response to complaints that claims were driving up insurance rates, forcing some doctors to give up their practices...
Kaiser's Medical Malpractice Resources
Posted on October 15, 2007Medical Malpractice Law in the United States is a Kaiser Family Foundation report that provides an overview of the issues surrounding medical malpractice law, including the legal changes that states have made over the past 30 years in response to periodic concerns about rising medical malpractice costs; some newer proposals for changing medical malpractice law; and trend data for malpractice claims...
$16 Million Jury Award for Heart Attack Death Among Largest Medical Malpractice Verdicts in Connecticut
Posted on October 04, 2007October 3, 2007 issue of Newsday reports: "BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A Superior Court jury has awarded more than $16 million to the family of a man who died of a heart attack more than a decade ago, an attorney said."Defendants, the Stamford Medical Group, were accused of "failing to diagnose and treat his cardiac disease...
Medical Malpractice Claims Paid by State
Posted on September 20, 2007The Kaiser Foundation maintains a web site, statehealthfacts.org, where it lists medical malpractice claims paid, by state for 2007. The data is presented for easy comparison, and can be sorted by state, or by number of claims paid, or number of paid claims per 1,000 active, non-federal physicians...
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