Medical Malpractice

• Deceased Rat = $1.7 million. Deceased Human = $250,000?

  Robert Wolf | November 01, 2006 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Here's to hoping I find a dead rat in my salad sometime soon! If I find a dead rat in a salad, I have the potential to recover $1.7 million for my "emotional and physical pain and suffering," not to mention my "change in dining habits." If one of my parents were to unfortunately die as a result of medical malpractice of a nursing home (for example), then the most the family could recover is...

• Can Time Travel Really Prevent Medical Malpractice???(2)

  Robert Wolf | September 29, 2006 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  I know this isn't one of my customary topics, but news like this just doesn't come up all that often. We've all been to a doctor or nurse whose bedside manner or treatment practices we have questioned. Most health care litigation attorneys have even met (and deposed) some real nut jobs (that is the technical legal term), but this one really takes the cake.An Ohio chiropractor who claimed to...

• Preventable Medication Error Responsible for Infant Deaths

  Robert Wolf | September 19, 2006 2:29 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  We've all read the articles that medical errors harm hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people every year. This time, an easily preventable medication error took the life of multiple infants. Lena Nelson had looked forward to buying dolls and other presents for her first granddaughter, who was born prematurely last week. Instead, she was planning Monday for the girl's funeral.D'myia...

• Cerebral Palsy Lawsuits Are Decimated by Egregious Damage Caps

  Robert Wolf | July 24, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Imagine being held underwater for a minute and then being allowed to come up for air - briefly - only to be involuntarily dunked underwater repeatedly. Your brain will go without oxygen for extended periods of time, which can cause severe damage to a healthy adult. Now, imagine the same nightmare scenario when it is an infant in the process of labor and delivery. If the baby survives at all,...

• Price Gouging at Health Care Companies? Say it Ain't So!!!

  Robert Wolf | June 21, 2006 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Haven't we all heard the rhetoric (and read my previous blog on the subject, no less) about how Plaintiff's attorneys and "greedy patients" are to blame for the rising cost of health care? Sure, there are countless victims of medical malpractice, but if they seek any type of recovery, then it's suddenly their fault that the rest of us face increased medical expenses? Well, as it turns out,...

• Birth Injuries - Who Can Be Sued?

  RLF Staff | June 16, 2006 10:30 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Did you know that a birth injury could be caused by a wide variety of sources? Claims are not limited to just medical doctors - they can also apply to nurses, hospitals, anesthesiologists, drug (pharmaceutical) companies, and other providers of health care services.While each person on the medical staff at a facility such as a hospital is responsible for his or her actions, the facility itself...

• Medical Bills Too High? Blame Medicare - NOT Lawsuits

  Robert Wolf | June 08, 2006 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  We've all heard the argument: "If greedy families and patients would stop suing, then everyone's medical bills would decrease." Let's set aside the fact that medical errors are a leading cause of death in the U.S. Let's instead look at one of the factors which is actually causing YOUR medical bills to skyrocket.Employers and consumers are paying billions of dollars more a year for medical care...

• Some Potentially Dire Consequences of Bariatric Surgery Are Not Always Properly Disclosed to Patients

  Robert Wolf | May 30, 2006 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Bariatric surgery -- a stomach-shrinking operation performed to help overcome obesity -- is becoming more popular than ever. But there's a catch often not understood by those who undergo the procedure: Once they lose the weight the surgery helps them lose, there may be more surgery to come -- surgery that is costlier and riskier and that requires a longer recovery time than the original...

• Treatment Center Settles Lawsuit Related to Teen Suicide

  Robert Wolf | May 22, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A wilderness treatment center has agreed to pay $1.2 million and admit responsibility to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Massachusetts teenager who killed himself while in its care, the parents' lawyers said Tuesday.Paul and Diana Lewis of East Longmeadow, Mass., sued the Aldredge Academy, also known as the Ayne Institute, in 2002 in Kanawha County Circuit Court alleging negligence...

• Senate Rejects Efforts to Limit Right of Medical Malpractice Victims

  Jeremi Young | May 09, 2006 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  An initiative backed by Republicans and President Bush to limit jury awards in medical malpractice cases was rebuffed by the United States Senate.The Senate voted down two measures, one that would have capped jury awards in lawsuits and doctors and health care institutions and another that would have capped awards against obstetricians only. Caps on recover would have been set at $250,000 in...