The long-term trends show a harmful, quite possibly unsustainable growth in American medical-malpractice liability. By 2004, direct liability costs for medical malpractice in the United States had reached almost $29 billion annually a ...

The Medical Malpractice "Crisis" Hoax -- From Public Citizen
Since others had already pointed out the Public Citizen report exposing the hoax of a medical malpractice "crisis" I wasn't going to bother. But there was Pres. Bush last night at his State of the Union speech once again leading people ...

The Great Medical Malpractice Hoax
Our friends at Public Citizen released a report dispelling the myths associated with the medical malpractice 'crisis'. Are malpractice suits driving up the cost of healthcare? No. The answer is even more simple: medical malpractice. ...

Psychiatrist and psychologist malpractice
In my 23 years as a medical malpractice lawyer in Chicago some of the most egregious cases I have seen have involved abuse and neglect by mental health professionals. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a tremendous amount of power in ...

FAQ: Statute of Limitations in Medical Malpractice Cases
New York's statute of limitations is just 2 1/2 years in medical malpractice cases, which is brutally short when it comes to the "failure to diagnose" cancer cases. Often the malpractice is not even known (because the diagnosis was ...

Wikiality and the media
... he quoted fictional statistics invented by the Center for Justice & Democracy as "evidence" of the failure of medical malpractice reform. I dropped him an email pointing out the error, and the response included the following: ...

North Carolina Legal Malpractice/Medical Malpractice Conundrum
In NC as in New York, plaintniff must provide a ceritificate of merit for a medical malpractice case. In NC, the question of whether a legal malpractice plaintiff who is suing over a lost medical malpractice case must provide yet...

Cleveland Medical Malpractice Lawyer - Michael Becker
Cleveland medical malpractice lawyer, Michael Becker handles complex medical malpractice cases and can help clients determine whether or not malpractice has occurred as a result of negligence and/or the misconduct of medical ...

New Report: the Medical Malpractice Hoax
Comment from Virginia Medical Malpractice Attorney Ben Glass: ... I told her that I don't hear that (anymore) from the doctors and their families whom I have represented when medical malpractice hits [their] home. ...