Before we pay our staff, before we pay for health insurance, before we pay for new equipment, (a medical malpractice insurance premium) has to be taken care of," Eisemann said. "And since we get paid less in reimbursements by insurance ...

A Critique of Texas' Anti-Courts Amendment
In 2003 an amendment to Texas' state constitution was included in a tort "reform" bill passed by referendum capping non-economic damages in medical malpractice in order to neutralize the "open courts" provision of the Texas constitution ...

Medical Malpractice - specific case
there we witnessed a classical example of medical malpractice. A health officer from LMD currently doin house job at Mayo hospital wrongly diagnosed a patient of Pleural effusion as heart failure. The emegency treatment for MI was given ...

MYTHBUSTER Series: FACTS ABOUT CIVIL LITIGATION IN THE UNITED ...
o At the highest level, the estimated number of medical injuries (in hospitals and otherwise) is more than one million per year; approximately 85000 malpractice suits are filed annually. With about ten times as many injuries as ...

Some doctors encouraged by new malpractice panel
These judges are willing to go out into the community and talk to doctors, medical professionals and lawyers, to have a real dialogue on specific concerns about medical malpractice, and how it relates to the Madison County judicial ...

Public Citizen: Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Not the Cause of ...
WASHINGTON, DC Despite claims by business and medical lobbying interests and the Bush administration, there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America, according to analysis released today by Public Citizen. ...

Real Tort Reform
I can think of examples in medical malpractice. I watched a case where a guy kept coming into the ER with asthma attacks. They kept giving him steroids, and referring him to a pulmonologist. He didn t follow the referral, ...

Labeling Limbs Prevents Medical Malpractice
Our firm recently handled a medical malpractice case where the hospital x-ray department sent a film by email to the radiologist in another town to read. The problem was the hospital sent the wrong persons x-ray. ...

When will we certifications of meritorious defenses?
The 2007 Virginia General Assembly Session brings with it more attempts to make Virginia medical malpractice claims more difficult for patients, while not providing any balancing requirements for defendants. ...