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Law Blog Metrics (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Florida Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.southfloridainjurylawyerblog.com http://www.southfloridainjurylawyerblog.com/index.xml Published by David J. Halberg, a personal injury Lawyer in South Florida who represents clients in cases involving injury and accidents including medical malpractice, car accidents, sexual abuse, and wrongful death. Missouri Personal...
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Structured Settlements 4Real: What' (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
In an effort to solicit attorneys to retain it to protect them from legal malpractice liability Settlement Professionals (SPI) makes the following inaccurate statements: "In Macomber v Travelers Property & Casualty Company and Lyons v Medical Malpractice Insurance Assoc. plaintiff...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
A 32 year old registered nurse from Newcastle upon Tyne has been cautioned by the independent Conduct and Competence Committee panel for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for dishonesty. Herdwick Mushava was issued with a five year caution order by her profession's regulator after admitting one offence of deception by fraudulently claiming sickness pay, for which she received a police caution....
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Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Medical malpractice victims suffered a setback in Kentucky last week when the Supreme Court of Kentucky reversed the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling adopting the “lost or diminished chance of recovery” in medical malpractice cases in Kemper v. Gordon. (This...
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
It won't be easy, or popular, for the N.C. Medical Board to post medical malpractice payouts on its Web page, judging from the critics who voiced opposition to the idea during a public hearing Monday.
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MSSPNexus Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Dr. John Anderson King, the controversial osteopathic physician who generated 124 medical malpractice suits while on Putnam General Hospital's staff between November 2002 and June 2003, has filed a lawsuit against a Roswell, Ga., law firm that once represented him....
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NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Opponents of the N.C. Medical Board's proposal to post medical malpractice payouts on its Web page said today the new effort would breach confidential settlement deals and create confusion about whether care was actually substandard.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
A mother and two daughters, owners of four healthcare corporations based in Miami were sentenced and remanded to prison for their part in plans to defraud the Medicare program, Matthew Friedrich, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida announced last Friday.
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Uncoached (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Welcome to the tip. I’ll give the tip, you read the rest. In other news, this woman’s breasts defy most, if not all surgical guidelines. Thank God for medical malpractice. Just the Tip Do you think the chick above is hot or not? - [Don Chavez] The Baddest Handlebar Mustaches - [Asylum] The 50 Hottest Chicks [...]
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Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
The University of Chicago Journal of Legal Studies published an interesting article on medical malpractice tort reform. Current Research on Medical Malpractice Liability: Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High-Risk Specialties, 36 J. Legal Stud. 121 (2007). The article supports...
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Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
The Maryland Daily Record reports today that The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos intends to file an appeal in a Baltimore City medical malpractice case in which the Plaintiff’s $10.2 million jury verdict against University of Maryland Medical Center...
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Forensics Talk (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Medical News Today Main Category: Medical Malpractice / Litigation Also Included In: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Article Date: 05 Jun 2008 - 5:00 PDT Swindon Magistrates' Court has ruled that a bogus practitioner describing himself as an osteopath has broken the law. Mr Julian Midda of Calne, Wiltshire pleaded...
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Forensics Talk (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Medical News Today Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Medical Malpractice / Litigation; Sexual Health / STDs Article Date: 10 Jun 2008 - 5:00 PDT Under a bill (HB 424) approved by the Delaware House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, anyone arrested for a crime involving sexual intercourse or...
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Forensics Talk (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
Medical News Today Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Medical Malpractice / Litigation; Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 12 Jun 2008 - 6:00 PDT The UK's Sex Offenders Register is failing to protect vulnerable children, according to a psychologist at the University of Liverpool. Researchers say...
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Brain Blogger (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
In my previous posts about Medicine and the Law we talked about the elements necessary for a patient-physician relationship — contract and consent as well as medical malpractice. We then went on to discuss causation and the different types. Continuing on in this series let’s talk about informed consent. Failure to obtain informed consent [...]
