Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Minnesota Hospital Admits Wrong Organ Removed

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

  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 Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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 Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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...

• Milwaukee Hospital Warns of Brain Disease Contamination

  Paul Jacquart | December 14, 2007 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Froedtert Hospital has issued a warning to nearly 100 patients who underwent surgery this week that they may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain disease spread by surgical instruments. It was discovered that another patient who had surgery this week may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, part of a family of prion diseases, which include mad cow and chronic wasting disease. It is thought that...

• Medicare Data on Doctors to be Shared

  Paul Jacquart | August 30, 2007 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent U.S. District Court ruling may help shed some light on doctors' experience levels in their respective disciplines. The L.A. Times has reported that the ruling, which resulted from a consumer group's lawsuit to open up the Medicare database, may result in the release of files and billing information for 700,000 doctors. This information could be used to track doctors' performance and...

• California Jury Awards $2.5 Million For Surgical Malpractice

  David Lowe | August 01, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A story in the Merced Sun-Star reports that a California jury has awarded $2.5 million to a patient who lost control of his bowels due to medical malpractice during routine surgery to remove a cyst from his buttocks. The patient alleged that his surgeon negligently cut a nearby muscle while attempting to remove the cyst. But this medical malpractice victim will likely face another painful cut...

• Damage Award Against Nursing Home Operator Stirs Debate

  David Lowe | February 23, 2007 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A $4.1 million judgment awarded against a Tennessee nursing home is generating debate in that state over the rights of abused residents to compensation versus the costs to insurance companies and nursing home operators.The jury heard evidence that the resident developed bedsores, and had an undiagnosed hip fracture and other problems, all of which were ignored by the nursing home because of...

• Intimidation of Expert Witnesses for Malpractice Victims Blocks Access To The Courts

  David Lowe | January 10, 2007 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It is always a challenge for the malpractice victim to find a qualified doctor willing to stand up in court and point the finger at another member of the profession who has committed malpractice. Most potential experts are specialists who depend on referrals from general practice doctors and others in the same community. Testifying against a colleague in the community can be the death knell...

• Suit Challenges Illinois Caps on Damage Awards

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

  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...

• Consumer Rights Remain At Risk Despite Mid-Term Election Results

  David Lowe | November 14, 2006 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsMilwaukee, WI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Stephanie Menciimer, author of the blog The Tortellini, cautions in a guest editorial posted in TomPaine.com that victims' rights remain at risk despite the Democratic Party's victory in the mid-term elections. The business lobby, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is not going away. As Mencimer observes, So long as Americans continue to exercise their right to sue when they've been injured,...