Many Victims–but Very Few Malpractice Suits. Why? Study after study–by the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, major medical schools and others, has conclude that hundreds of thousands of people die every year in this country because of medical malpractice. Hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of other people are …
Should There Be “Caps” on Damages That Juries Can Award? One of the fondest dreams of insurance carriers is that they will get to continue charging high rates for insurance but that our legislature will cap their potential downside risk. Big businesses like car manufacturers and investment companies also love the idea that the amount …
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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Help Everyone Talk radio hosts and insurance lobbyists have made their careers criticizing people who file suit – as if using the courts guaranteed by the Constitution was dirty. Who is funding all this talk? People who get sued and their insurance companies, of course. Powerful people and their insurance companies don’t …
Wrongful Death Lawsuits At my firm we handle a variety of Wrongful Death lawsuits. Because we work on so many medical malpractice cases, most of the Wrongful Death suits we handle are also medical malpractice cases. Just yesterday, I had a client call us about a medical malpractice case, but she wanted to know if …
The Common Surgery That Can Be Uncommonly Dangerous Hysterectomy surgery–in which a woman’s uterus is removed–is an extremely common surgery. Tens of thousands of American women have this operation done every year. Over the last several decades, improvements in equipment and techniques have made this operation much safer and easier on the women patients. But only …
The “Conspiracy of Silence” in Medical Malpractice Cases In a medical malpractice case the injured patient is required to prove his case with expert testimony from another professional to the effect that the defendant failed to provide proper care to the plaintiff. Such testimony is often required to even start a case: in …
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Victims of serious injury at the hands of so-called medical professionals have one of two choices: allow the injustice to go unchallenged and risk the same provider injuring someone else, or standing up and fighting for their rights and, in so doing, send the clear message that medical negligence is an epidemic that must be …
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