Personal Injury Law

Patients Billed for Medical Errors
Talk about chutzpah. First the doctor operated on the wrong side before correcting himself and operating on the right side. Then the patient was billed for both surgeries.While 10 states will no longer allow billing for "never events" such as wrong site surgeries, 40 states still allow it...

After Long Silence
Many of my students and colleagues thought, for some crazy reason, that the holiday season would be a good time to visit family, go somewhere warm, or otherwise relax. Naturally, I thought it would be a great time to do this instead: As it turns out, oddly enough, spinal fusion surgery is less fun than a trip to the beach...

"Infuse Bone Graft" Linked to Life-Threatening Complications
The FDA has received 38 reports that Medtronic Inc.'s "Infuse Bone Graft," typically used to encourage bone growth in spinal surgeries, causes neck and throat swelling--life threatening injuries...

Three Botched Brain Surgeries in Same Hospital Indicates Systems Failure
It is hard to believe this actually happened, I know, but in a Rhode Island hospital, there have been three botched brain surgeries in the last ten months in which the physician operated on the wrong side of the brain! In two cases, the doctors did not realize the errors until after they had opened the skull...

WAS THIS CAUSED BY SUV'S, TOO
Astronomy magazine reports (re Jupiter): "...a third red spot has appeared next to its cousins ? the Great Red Spot and Red Spot, Jr. ? in the turbulent jovian atmosphere. ... The Hubble and Keck images may support the idea...

Value of Vertebrae Fracture Personal Injury Cases
A Jury Verdict Research report this month found that over the last ten years, the national median award at trial in personal injury cases for a vertebra fracture is $112,537. Almost two-thirds of the cases in the study were motor vehicle accidents, which is the leading cause of spinal injuries in this country...

Wrong Bus
Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot.

Massachusetts Employment Law
alleging violations of Massachusetts labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination, harassment and more.

Massachusetts Turnpike Class Action

Botched Surgeries
Dr. King to pay $2.5 million settlement in malpractice lawsuit.

Wrong Medication
Walgreens agrees to confidential settlement after woman suffers miscarriage.

Medical Malpractice
US Government awards family $750,000 settlement after woman dies after undergoing eight surgeries in 35 days.