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• Unemployment Skyrockets: “U.S. now beating European unemployment rates”

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 641
  Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe ,  reports the Washington Post .  “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe.   This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent ...
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• November 10 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 657
  Judge vacates $1.2 billion default judgment against PepsiCo [ Watertown, Wisc. Daily Times , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , earlier ] “Democrats’ first spokesman on medical malpractice: former head of the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association.” [ Ponnuru, NRO , on Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley] Related: Carter Wood at ...
  11 hours ago

• More Patients Linked to Radiation Overdoses From Botched CT Scans

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 513
  The number of stroke patients who were exposed to potentially dangerous overdoses of radiation during CT brain scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is growing.Hospital officials now say 260 patients were exposed over an 18-month period, which is more than the original estimate of 206 patients the ...
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• Actor James Woods Sues Rhode Island Hospital Over Brother’s Death

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Celebrities are often thought to be more or less immune from the everyday challenges of common folk, but as Dennis Quaid , the late Ed McMahon , Dana Carvey, and others have shown, they can be victims of medical malpractice just like anyone else. Now Academy Award-nominated actor, and Rhode Island native, James ...
  13 hours ago

• There is No Need for More Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 130
  Currently tort reform laws exist in nearly every state. These laws make it more different for average people who have endured medical error to sue those responsible. It is evident that the tort reform movement was created and funded by insurance companies and the medical profession and backed by conservative ...
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• U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley Advocates Patient Safety—Gets Shouted Down on House Floor

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  If you thought U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s “ You lie! ” moment during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress was an aberration, think again.  This past weekend, as Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) dared to champion the rights of the millions of Americans killed or injured by medical malpractice in this ...
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• Maybe a New Day for Doctors’ Pay

  
  Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog — Authority: 425
  Robert H. Frank, an economist at Cornell University, has written an interesting article for the New York Times regarding money earned by physicians. The gistof the article (rather densely written as you would expect from aprofessor of economics) is that one reason health care costs are sohigh is that doctors are paid ...
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• Huff Post: Americans Suffering Enough from So-called “Tort Reform” and Don’t Need More

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  One of the more underreported, though no less important aspects of this past weekend’s Congressional  health care debate (which preceded the historic passage of the U.S. House’s health care reform bill)  was related to attempts by some seeking to “ derail ” the bill by arguing it didn’t contain ...
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• MYTHS ABOUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

  
  Legal Medicine — Authority: 121
  Im tired of hearing the falsehoods about how lawyers who represent the victims of medical negligence are running doctors out of business and driving up the costs of health care. It is just not true and I want to share with you some observations about this issue and challenge our readers to dispute any of the points ...
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• How To Get the Birth Injury Attorney That You Need

  
  BabyNames& FamilyIssuesBlog — Authority: 149
  This article will be of assistance in finding a competent Birth Injury Attorney if your child suffered a birth injury. Five out of every one thousand live births involves a birth injury of some sort. Birth injuries can entail permanent injuries that will encumber the child throughout his or her life. Consequently, a ...
  2 days ago

• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  3 days ago

• Medical Malpractice Alert: Actor James Woods suing hospital over brother’s wrongful death

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 531
  Bakersfield, California (CaymanMama.com) — Two-time Oscar nominated actor James Woods is suing a hospital in Rhode Island for the wrongful death of of his younger brother in 2006. Although Woods declined to discuss the matter in further detail, he did tell The Associated Press he is seeking “justice” for his ...
  3 days ago

• The Importance Of Mesothelioma Information In Prevention And Cure

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 165
  Information or the lack of it is the deciding factor of whether an endeavor would become a success or not. Treatment of mesothelioma is such a field where the difference between success and failure is just a thin line that is decided by availability or the lack of defining mesothelioma information. Unfortunately, many ...
  3 days ago

• Is Tort Reform a Remedy or a Red Herring?

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 130
  In the ongoing debate over health care reform, critics are increasingly citing the lack of tort reform as a major deficiency of the current proposals floating around Congress. Republicans are using conservatives to seek tort reform to shield corporate malefactors from full accountability for their wrongdoing. ...
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• "Tort Reform" Is a Desperate Distraction From Health Care Debate

  
  Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog — Authority: 425
  This article was written for the Huffington Post by Anthony Tarricone, president of the American Association for Justice. Here are excerpts: Thoseopposed to real health care reform are flailing to come up with real,alternative solutions to our current crisis. With all the talk of deathpanels, government takeovers, ...
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• Who is Responsible When a Person is Injured?

  
  Lawinfo Weblog — Authority: 110
  By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. Accidents happen.  Sometimes an accident could have been prevented – and was caused by the carelessness of another.  When an accident is caused by someone else’s negligence, then the negligent party (the one who didn’t act carefully enough) can be held responsible when a person ...
  4 days ago

• Medical Malpractice in Health Care Debate

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 130
  One doctor appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss his article on medical malpractice reform. He pointed out that medical malpractice is a patients’ rights issue as well as a doctor’s issue. He believes that medical malpractice caps leave an injured victim with very little recourse because the cost ...
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• VA Secretary orders ‘to-to-bottom’ review of troubled Marion VA Hospital

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 130
  New problems have emerged at the troubled VA Medical Center in Marion, Illinois . This has prompted Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to order a “top-to-bottom” review of the facility. Senator Durbin and other Illinois lawmakers met with the VA secretary after a report this week found ongoing problems at ...
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• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 113
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
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• Negligent Cook County Delivery Results in Brain Damage to the Child

  
  Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 415
  A Cook County birth injury lawsuit that alleged a baby boy had suffered severe brain damage during a delay in his birth was settled. The medical malpractice lawsuit was against Northwest Community Hospital , a nurse midwife, and the midwifes employer. The case was settled and approved by a Cook County Circuit ...
  4 days ago

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