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Florida Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Not Retroactive

When states enact so-called “medical malpractice reforms” (also known as “tort reforms”) such as caps (limits) on non-economic damages (such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and disfigurement)...

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Hospital Medical Malpractice Claims Versus Outpatient Medical Malpractice Claims

In a published study last year, researchers found that the number of paid medical malpractice claims involving outpatient medical care in 2009 were more than the number of paid medical malpractice...

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Medical Malpractice Claims In Other Countries

While we have been blogging about medical malpractice issues in the United States daily for almost one year, we thought we would broaden our horizons to see how other countries may address medical...

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New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Gallbladder Surgery...

In 2008, a 60-year-old Korean immigrant who was the primary caregiver for his mentally ill adult daughter was admitted into a New York hospital for surgery to remove his inflamed gallbladder due to...

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West Virginia Medical Malpractice: 124 Medical Malpractice Claims Against 1...

Wow.  A former osteopathic doctor who performed surgeries at a West Virginia hospital has had 124 medical malpractice claims filed against him arising out of his only 7 months of medical practice at...

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Poor People Sue For Medical Malpractice Less Than Others

It is a not-so-uncommon belief among doctors and other medical providers that the risk of being sued for medical malpractice by a poor patient is much greater than the risk of being sued for medical...

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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!

Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first...

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New Jersey Pharmacy Gave Children Cancer Drug Instead Of Fluoride Tablets

A New Jersey CVS Pharmacy mistakenly filled prescriptions for chewable fluoride tablets for children with the similar-looking powerful breast cancer drug, Tamoxifen, during a more than two month...

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Florida Legislature Passes Bill To Pay Medical Malpractice Verdict

Back in 2007, a Florida medical malpractice jury awarded almost $31 million to a child and his parents for the child’s birth injuries that included cerebral palsy and other serious injuries that the...

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Texas Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Surgeon’s Disability

A Texas woman has recently filed a medical malpractice claim against her former surgeon, claiming that the surgeon was dealing with his cancer at the time of her surgery that led to the surgeon’s...

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Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors

In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic...

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