Is too much money being spent on dying patients? 60 Minutes on the CBS News recently aired a segment called “The Cost of Dying,” which was a breakdown of events that happen with patients in hospitals in the Intensive Care Units and the high costs associated with keeping them alive,…
A man shared information about a civil trial of a woman who says that she was wrongfully committed to a psychiatric institution after she vented angrily about how she felt about her church’s pastor. The woman hired a medical malpractice lawsuit and sued the psychiatric hospital along with other staff…
A reporter was quick to point out that a Federal Judge permitted a legal motion to add a medical malpractice claim to one filed against the country Sheriff, the county and other jailers of a wrongful death case. “The Judge made her ruling and granted permission for changes to the…
Laws that have been in place since 2003 in West Virginia are now coming under attack. In 1986 lawmakers approved a cap of $1 million in awards made by juries in medical malpractice cases. The $1 million limit was only on non-economic damages, which left juries the ability to award…
In what could be regarded as a terrible scam, a national eye center chain was operating on bad candidates; people that should never have eye surgery of that kind in the first place. They also went to great lengths to cover up what they were doing, explained the New York…
They had hoped that science could give them what nature had denied: children. The couple was in their mid thirties and late fifties respectively and after years of trying to conceive naturally they turned to their local hospital in a last ditch effort to find the love and joy that…
In what turned out to be a shameful comedy of errors, a misdiagnosis resulted in catastrophic injuries for a 63-year old man. The 63-year old man presented to a local hospital three years ago needing emergency medical help. After being misdiagnosed at the hospital by the doctors who missed the…
If medical malpractice immunity is instituted in return for treating Medicaid patients, the system would become a shambles, indicated a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. Perhaps this is an idea that may find favor with the general public; a way to treat those who don’t have much in the way…
After a New York hospital closed, hundreds of people were left out in the cold, says one New York Malpractice Lawyer The hospital, which closed due to having about $1 billion of debt, filed for bankruptcy, which has so far protected it from any lawsuits for malpractice, some of which…
This case should never have happened and the awful thing is that the woman the suffered the medical malpractice is unable to sue in the state she lives in. This would never happen in New York, indicated a NYC Medical Malpractice Lawyer The woman knew that there was a major…