Legal News

What Medical Malpractice Crisis
The doctors’ lobbies and the Insurance companies forced to pay malpractice claims have been trying to for years to convince people that there is a medical malpractice crisis.  They have been trying to convince the public that doctors are fleeing states without malpractice caps...

Washington, D.C. Medical Malpractice Verdicts
How many medical malpractice trials have there been in Washington D.C. this year? Ummm, let?s see, medical malpractice lawsuits are out of control. I know this because I read the Forbes article repeating the ?malpractice lawsuits are running amok and medical malpractice lawyers are the problem? mantra...

Medical Malpractice at an All-Time Low
Many different counties across the United States have seen all time low rates of medical malpractice in 2008. This is a very interesting turn of events as we have seen the rate of medical malpractice increase for decades...

Medical Malpractice More Truths
The facts about medical malpractice need to be told. Most of the information that people believe are myths generated by the health care industry. The facts are astounding. Currently, attorneys and patients have no way of knowing who these bad doctors are because the National Practitioner Data Base's public use file conceals practitioners' personal information...

New Hampshire to Have New Medical Malpractice Case Processing
The New Hampshire House has passed SB 214 which creates an additional process which victims of medical malpractice must go through before having their day in court. Unless Governor Lynch vetos this legislation, New Hampshire residents with medical malpractice claims...

Malpractice Suits within Suits: Texas Court Throws out Attorney Malpractice Suit over Medical Malpractice Case
An Austin court recently upheld the tossing out of a malpractice suit a former client filed against his attorney over failure to sue doctors for Celebrex related medical malpractice...

Structured Settlements in Medical Malpractice Cases
My good friend, Dov Apfel, a medical malpractice attorney from Maryland who handles birth injury cases, wrote a very informative article in the December issue of Trial magazine (pasted below) about structured settlements in cerebral palsy medical malpractice cases...

Why Most Victims of Medical Malpractice Never Collect A Dime
STATISTICS DON?T LIE! The medical profession brings health and hope to millions of Americans every day; however, far too many are injured or killed due to medical mistakes. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report documenting that as many as 98,000 patients die each year as a result of medical errors in [...

Medical Malpractice: Actors, Flaws, and Reform (IV)
Previous posts have discussed the flaws in medical malpractice law as uncertainty, delay, and high transaction costs. Next week, I'll discuss a potential reform. II. Flaws (cont.) After all the time and money spent, aren?t the results of medical malpractice...