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• CT Scan Radiation Injury Toll Rises to 250 Patients

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 440
  Another 50 patients have been added to the list of those who were exposed to potentially dangerous high levels of radiation during CT brain scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, officials said.The number of patients who received up to eight times the level of radiation that is supposed to be ...
  5 hours ago

• Monday law blog round-up

  
  On the Record — Authority: 125
  Happy Monday! Ron Miller takes issue with The Ethicist’s advice to a doctor who doesn’t want to treat a medical malpractice lawyer. In the context of why most great blawgs aren’t written by big-law types, Carolyn Elefant has this to say : “Big firm lawyers are very, very good at practicing law, but I ...
  5 hours ago

• A Great Lesson on Attorney’s Fees Via the U.S. Senate!

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 420
  Good news out of the U.S. Senate yesterday.  A cynical amendment to the Senate health care bill sponsored by Senator John Ensign (R-NV) that would have effectively slammed the courthouse doors on countless numbers of injured patients was soundly defeated by a strong bi-partisan vote of 32-66. The amendment would ...
  7 hours ago

• When to Evaluate for a Hypercoagulable State

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 466
  The Doctors Company is a medical malpractice insurer.  Its website contains articles of interest to all Tennessee medical malpractice lawyers and, in fact, medical malpractice lawyers in every state. For example, one interesting article is titled " When to Evaluate for a Hypercoagulable State ."   Here is an ...
  15 hours ago

• Cerebral Palsy Causes

  
  The Shopping Girl — Authority: 146
  The causes of cerebral palsy (CP) are not fully understood however medical science does know that when damage is done to a developing fetus or newborns brain can result in CP. It is important to be aware of some risk factors regarding cerebral palsy such as: Infections in the Mother Maternal infections increase ...
  2 days ago

• Unerstanding Cerebral Palsy Causes

  
  Talk Business Today — Authority: 131
  Medical professionals do not understand fully as to what causes cerebral palsy. They do know however, that brain damage to a developing fetus can result in cerebral palsy. Doctors also know that if there is damage done to a babys brain during delivery, the child may suffer cerebral palsy. There are recognized factors ...
  2 days ago

• Unerstanding Cerebral Palsy Causes

  
  Ask Sison — Authority: 130
  The causes of cerebral palsy (CP) are not fully understood however medical science does know that when damage is done to a developing fetus or newborns brain can result in CP. It is important to be aware of some risk factors regarding cerebral palsy such as: Infections in the Mother Maternal infections increase ...
  2 days ago

• Actor Settles Wrongful Death Suit Against Hospital

  
  Bodily Injury Blog — Authority: 429
  Actor James Woods has settled a lawsuit that accused a Rhode Island hospital of negligence in the death of his brother, the Providence Journal reports. The settlement calls for Kent Hospital to pay an undisclosed sum to the children of Michael Woods and to launch initiatives to improve patient care. Woods said an ...
  3 days ago

• Medical Defence Unions Ten Point Plan To Help Hospital Doctors Avoid Medication Errors, UK

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  Following todays publication of the GMCs study into prescribing errors in hospital1 which revealed that mistakes could be made by doctors at all levels, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UKs leading medical defence organisation, which represents over half of UK doctors, has published tips to help doctors avoid the ...
  3 days ago

• Illinois Senator Fights for Medical Malpractice Victims

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 127
  Recently Illinois Senator Dick Durbin gave a speech on the senate floor in defense of medical malpractice victims. He reminded the Senate that medical malpractice claims and lawsuit payouts are decreasing in America. Only one percent of doctors are being charged with medical malpractice and paying each year. In ...
  3 days ago

• Would You Compromise Your Cancer Cure?

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 110
  Your doctor has good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer in your abdomen. The good news is that it can be cured, using a combination of three drugs and ten radiation treatments. Would you settle for just two of the three drugs? Would you compromise your medical care and take one drug the doctor ...
  4 days ago

• Confirmation Of Hamilton To Appeals Court Signals Hope For Ending Nomination Battles, Opinion Piece Says

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  Confirmation of Hamilton to Appeals Court Signals Hope for Ending Nomination Battles, Opinion Piece SaysAlthough the "machinations" surrounding the confirmation of U.S. Appeals Court Judge David Hamilton -- including a GOP filibuster attempt -- "might seem to continue the long-standing confirmation wars, the ...
  4 days ago

• Selecting The Right Attorney Based On Your Individual Situation

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 490
  Life, and the relationships among people, corporations, and institutions, can be baffling and chaotic. The Law is our attempt to pull order and fairness from this chaos, but when you touch the law, you touch complexity. We need expert help to organize the chaos and be our advocates in the situation. A common situation ...
  4 days ago

• The Tell-Tale Tooth

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 563
  A minor toothache leads to an adventure in blood, love, feminism, drugs and near madness. An insurance company, a handful of receptionists and a risky dose of anesthesia bring the author to the brink, from which she is rescued by an Elizabeth Bishop poem and a beatific dentist.
  4 days ago

• What to Know About Your Medical Malpractice Case

  
  Cerebral Palsy Law Blog — Authority: 112
  If you or someone you love has been injured while under the care of a medical professional you may want to file a medical malpractice lawsuit in order to be compensated for your injuries. But there are some basic things you should know about medical malpractice before you file your case in order to ensure that you ...
  4 days ago

• Columbia Medical Testifies On Malpractice In State Senate

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of medicine and health sciences at Columbia University testified today on medical malpractice reform before the New York State Senate Committees on Codes, Health and Insurance in Albany, New York. Dr. Goldman is a ...
  5 days ago

• Same Doctor, Same Injury

  
  Accident and Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 117
  The same doctor gets sued for the same injury in Huntington, West Virginia. Two Plaintiff allege medical malpractice against the same obstetrician and gynecologist for separate acts of negligence within the same month in 2007. Frequent flyer doctors make up an obscene percentage of the medical malpractice payouts ...
  5 days ago

• Doctor is awarded $500,000 in punitive damages in wrongful termination lawsuit

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 128
  Considering how vociferously that doctors argue they shouldn’t be sued, I always note when they file a lawsuit.  This doctor will learn firsthand how much of an injustice that damage caps are, as his $500,000 award will get reduced by $200,000. A radiation oncologist who formerly worked for the University of ...
  6 days ago

• Cost of malpractice insurance steady or falling

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 125
  New numbers from the Medical Liability Monitor show that 94 percent of medical malpractice insurance premiums have remained steady or dropped. Maggie Mertens over at NPR’s Shots Health Blog observes that the timing of this release is bad news for efforts to slip “tort reform” into the federal health care ...
  6 days ago

• NY Appellate Court Says OK to Sue No-Fault, Workers Comp and DME Physicians

  
  New York Personal Injury Law Blog — Authority: 568
  Generally speaking, one cant sue a doctor that does a medical-legal exam for the other side. These exams come up in the context of Workers Compensation trying to cut off a workers benefits, Defense Medical Exams for personal injury suits where too many doctors seem to claim that every injury under the sun is one ...
  6 days ago

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