Medical Malpractice

• Suit Challenges Illinois Caps on Damage Awards

  David Lowe | November 21, 2006 4:31 PM | 2 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  My colleague Jeffrey M.Goldberg, a nationally-renowned trial attorney who is an expert in birth injury cases, has filed a medical malpractice suit in Illinois on behalf of a child born with cerebral palsy and severe brain damage as the result of a mismanaged labor and delivery. The suit seeks fair compensation for the child and his family, but argues that fair compensation can only be provided...

• NEJM Study Says "Frivolous" Malpractice Claims Not Common

  Paul Jacquart | August 22, 2011 8:53 AM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  The debate over so-called “frivolous” medical malpractice litigation is a heated one. Proponents on both sides of the issue are quick to offer their commentary and examples of how our...

• LASIK SURGERY WARNINGS INSUFFICIENT

  Paul Jacquart | May 02, 2008 8:26 AM | 1 CommentMilwaukee, WI

  A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended bolstering the warnings of the dangers of Lasik eye surgery, reports the Associated Press. The article explains that although Lasik...

• Who Can Sue For Medical Malpractice in Wisconsin?

  David Lowe | July 16, 2009 8:39 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  “Yes, this death was the result of malpractice, but there is no one with the right to sue and hold the doctor or hospital to account.” As a medical malpractice lawyer in Wisconsin, I...

• Medical Malpractice "Never Events"

  Paul Jacquart | December 10, 2008 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  The National Quality Forum, which identifies itself as a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and...

• Medical Malpractice Litigation Unlikely To Change Despite Medicare's Refusal To Pay For Hospital Errors

  David Lowe | October 02, 2008 12:38 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Effective October 1, 2008, Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals for extra medical services provided because of hospital errors. The new rule will apply to the following list of reasonably...

• The Wisconsin Family Justice Bill: Ensuring That All Medical Malpractice Claims Are Heard

  David Lowe | April 15, 2008 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Once again today, I had to turn down a potential medical malpractice case for a young adult because there was no survivor of the victim who had the legal right to pursue the claim. Under Wisconsin...

• Minnesota Hospital Admits Wrong Organ Removed

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Methodist Hospital in Minnesota acknowledged that their medical staff accidentally removed the wrong organ from a patient. Dr. Samuel Carlson, chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, stated that one of the surgeons removed a patient's healthy kidney and left the cancerous one in place.The surgery was performed last Tuesday, but it wasn't until the next day that a pathologist...

• Ritter Lawsuit Demonstrates How Medical Malpractice Caps Discriminate On Basis Of Wealth

  David Lowe | March 14, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  After a month long trial, John Ritter's doctors were found not liable by a California jury for medical malpractice in the actor's death in 2003. The lawsuit alleged that a cardiologist misdiagnosed an aortic dissection as a heart attack, and that a radiologist failed to perform an x-ray that might have revealed the dissection, thus causing Ritter to lose the chance for surgery that might have...

• Decline in Medical Malpractice Cases Has Brought Down Malpractice Insurance Costs

  David Lowe | December 14, 2007 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  Another story today adds to the mounting evidence that medical malpractice suits are in decline and that medical malpractice insurance costs are headed downward. In Baltimore, Maryland, a consent order settlement has been reached between the State and the largest medical malpractice insurance carrier, Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society, which will result in the return of excess medical...