In analyzing whether you have a good medical malpractice case, we’ll look at three issues: 1. Did the Doctor Make an Inexcusable Mistake? It is not enough in a medical malpractice case to prove that a doctor made a mistake. Some mistakes are excusable and are not medical malpractice. For example, during a surgery, a doctor may […]
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Misdiagnosis Causes Severe Injuries and Death More than 100,000 weight-loss procedures are performed annually in the United States alone, and numbers are rising. Although these “bariatric” surgeries are lucrative for the doctors who perform weight loss surgery and are heavily advertised on billboards and on the internet, they come with serious risks. One
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One of the most consistent goals of so-called “tort reform” is to put an upper limit on the amount that a defendant has to pay for the damage he causes in injury suits. For example, in Texas, where there are such limits, a doctor can kill a child or a housewife or a grandfather through
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Every year there are advances in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries. For example, there have been dramatic improvements in methods of treating cancer and diagnosing cancer. While cancer misdiagnosis cases are particularly tragic, our team has been handling more and more misdiagnosis cases involving not only cancer but other diseases. Diseases like meningitis, and
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Spinal Injuries Due to Unnecessary Steroid Injections Rising Each day in the United States, thousands of people undergo injections in their necks or lower backs with steroids. These injections are meant to be given just above the “dura” of the spinal cord. The dura is a tough covering over the spinal cord and within it
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Most Lawsuits Settle Before They Go to Trial. Usually money changes hands, but often not: sometimes cases settle for an apology, an agreement to change the terms of a contract, or even an agreement to enter into another contract which is lucrative to both sides. So what about the cases that end up in court?
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Keeping Malpractice Secret From the Public Our courts historically are open to the public, not only in terms of giving every citizen access to the courts to solve disputes, but also in terms of giving all citizens access to what is going on in suits involving others. On any given day in Little Rock, Fort
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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
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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
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