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Late-term Abortionist Pendergraft Loses License Suspension Appeal

Late-term Abortionist Pendergraft Loses License Suspension Appeal Operation Rescue calls on FL Medical Board to convert the suspension into a permanent revocation TALLAHASSEE, FL, July 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- Late-term abortionist James Pendergraft has lost his appeal of the suspension of his medical license for committing illegal third- trimester abortions. The suspension issued by the Florida Medical...

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Personal Injury Roundup No. 41 (7/03/09)

Happy Fourth of July! Reform, Legislation, Policy Point: Richard Epstein on Medical Malpractice Reform (Olson/Point of Law) Counterpoint: Eric Turkewitz Responds (New York Personal Injury Law Blog) Alberto Bernabe has more here. Trials, Settlement and Other Ends NE: Inmate Kills...

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One less killer of viable babies

Praise God! The Florida medical board, which evidently has more balls than the Kansas medical board -- or more brains or a higher price tag -- has suspended the license of the state's highest profile slayer of post-viability fetuses: the infamous James Pendergraft, killer of Baby Rowan and of Ashli's baby . Read all about it here , straight from the horse's mouth. A few choice (ha!) sections: ...Chapter...

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Michael Jackson's Will Released, but Who Wrote It?

Last week, I wrote about some of the potential medical malpractice issues that Michael Jackson's death might raise. This week, the legal issues associated with Jackson's recently released will are driving the discussion. The New York Times summarizes the provisions of Jackson's five-page will, dated July 7, 2002. The document gives the estate to the Michael Jackson Family Trust Fund and names his mother,...

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How Other Countries Judge Malpractice The health-care...

How Other Countries Judge Malpractice The health-care systems Democrats want to emulate don't allow contingency fees or large jury awards In his recent speech to the American Medical Association, President Barack Obama held out the tantalizing possibility of reforming medical malpractice law as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. health-care system. As usual, he hedged his bets by declining...

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Amputated Methodist patient awarded $10 million

A Harris County jury has ruled in favor of a Houston man in a medical malpractice case, awarding him $10 million to be paid by Methodist Hospital and the doctors who treated him there.

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Obama restates opposition to malpractice caps

President Barack Obama is standing by his opposition to caps on jury awards to people who successfully sue for medical malpractice.

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Lieberman Supported Public Option in 2004 and 2006

Jed at DKosTV catches another quote from Joe Lieberman in October 2006, where he seems to have promised specific support for his version of a public option: "I've been working on health insurance reform for more than a dozen years. ... I have offered a comprehensive program. Small business health insurance reform, plus something I call MediKids to cover all the children in America on a sliding...

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How Medical Malpractice Reform Could Save Lives

When my six-year-old daughter heard that I was going to write about President Obama’s speech to the American Medical Association in Chicago, she offered me this insight: “He’s not a doctor! He isn’t supposed to tell people what to do when they’re sick; he’s supposed to rule the world.” Yet, regrettably, doctors do need his [...]

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Iowa's Criminal HIV Transmission Law Examined

A recent court decision in Black Hawk County, Iowa where a 34-year-old HIV-positive man was sentenced to 25 years in prison and a lifetime of parole for not informing a sexual partner of his status, might lead to a national discussion on state criminal transmission laws, the Iowa Independent reports.

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The sleazy and the stupid.

Blogging Tory and medical malpractice lawsuit looking for a place to happen Jabba the Roy shows us how right-wing civility works : The little worm franken is now the junior senator from Minnesota. Not to be outdone, commenter "Paul M" brings the stupid : Why is it Democrats always seem to gain votes in a recount? If I was in that state I'd be very interested in an investigation into this...

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Bickering N.Y. Senators Still Stuck In Neutral

ALBANY (AP) -- Democrats claimed control of the split New York Senate on Tuesday, declaring a quorum after a Republican took a short cut through the chamber because an exterior parlor had been blocked by Democrats for a press conference they never held. The Democrats began voting on a host of bills stalled by a three-week power struggle and declaring them passed. It wasn't clear if the Democrats engineered...

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Illinois is the worse state for black nursing home care

Chicago Reporter : An investigation by The Chicago Reporter found that Illinois is arguably the worst state in the nation for black senior citizens seeking quality nursing home care. There is just one home in Illinois rated “excellent” by the federal government when more than 50 percent of the home’s residents are black. In Illinois, these facilities get the worst federal ratings...

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Majority Of U.S. Residents Support Confirming Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor, Poll Finds

Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is "about right" on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, the

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Medical Jobs Dealing With Law

By Amy Nutt If you are looking for a job that combines medicine with the law, you have two basic routes you can take. Either you can choose medical jobs that deal directly with law enforcement, or you can choose a job in law that deals directly with medicine. The two may not seem much different, but there are differences. For a job in medicine that deals with the law, you could choose to work as a...