Medical Malpractice

• New Package Inserts May Reduce Medical Errors

  Staff Writer | January 21, 2006 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  It's about time. Revamped package inserts are about to hit pharmacy shelves in the near future. In the first time in a quarter of a century, the FDA will change the requirements of the lengthy package inserts included in your prescription drugs. Pharmasicts, doctors and even patients welcome this change. Currently, many people rely on resources such the Physicians Desk Reference and on-line...

• Plano Teen Can File Birth Injury Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2006 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The Wisonsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that one of our clients can file a birth injury lawsuit claiming the Wisconsin doctor and hospital are responsible for denying the client's brain of oxygen in the moments before and after his birth, which led to the child developing cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy lawyer Jeremi Young represents the family. The defense argued the lawsuit was past the...

• Colorado vs. New Zealand - Medical Malpractice Liability

  RLF Staff | March 24, 2008 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  An interesting column by Senator Bob Hagedorn in the Rocky Mountain News looks at what he considers limitations and shortcomings of the medical malpractice systems in the state, as well as the nation, and compares those systems to one in place in New Zealand.Some of his outlined shortfalls in what he refers to as a lawsuit-based status quo include: Physicians are poorly policed with little...

• Is Your Doctor Sleeping Enough?

  RLF Staff | March 12, 2008 9:38 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A recent Internet survey by the American College of Chest Physicians' Sleep Institute (ACCP) found that most physicians are probably not getting enough sleep for top performance at work.As a patient, anxiety may affect your ability to sleep the night before a medical procedure - we all get a little nervous, right? What if you knew your doctor didn't get much sleep either? The average physician...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• Caps On Medical Malpractice

  Staff Writer | December 28, 2005 11:14 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  In Texas, the legislature has placed caps on medical liability. Effectively, there is now a cap of $250,000 per claimant on non-economic damage awards in cases involving health care providers or an individual health. The limit applies regardless of the number of providers involved or the number of issues upon which the claim is based. If the claim involves several institutions, the cap is $...