Medical Malpractice

• Brain damaged child settlement

  Ben Glass | June 18, 2008 6:15 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According to documents filed in a Probate Court in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the attorneys for the Cleveland Clinic and the mother of a brain-damaged child reached a $10 million settlement for a...

• What information should be made public?

  Ben Glass | June 15, 2008 6:14 AM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA

  The North Carolina Medical Board is looking at how detailed information should be reported and what the public should be told concerning the records of doctors’, including medical malpractice...

• Roanoke Times Points Out How Stupid Virginia's Cap on Damages Is

  Ben Glass | June 12, 2008 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  There is a great editorial in the Roanoke Times that really hits the nail on the head in proving how Virginia's cap on malpractice damages does nothing for insurance premiums but practically...

• Military Medical Accountability Act

  Ben Glass | June 11, 2008 6:14 AM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA

  If one Congressman from New York has his way, members of the U.S. armed forces would be able to file medical malpractice suits against the military. The Carmelo Rodriquez Military Medical...

• Doctor Put on Hold, Hangs Up, Patient Dies

  Ben Glass | June 10, 2008 5:58 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Supreme Court of Virginia has ordered a new trial for the estate of a woman who died from a pulmonary embolism after information about her life threatening condition was not acted upon by her physicians after the radiologist who diagnosed the condition hung up the phone after being put on hold.

• Eight Minute Colonoscopy Misses Tumor That Will Now Kill

  Ben Glass | April 20, 2008 6:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A colonoscopy is one of the best things you can do to prevent colon cancer. Colon cancer is a killer but it is slow growing and very, very preventable. But....the colonoscopy has to be properly...

• Should Malpractice Prevent You from Practicing Elsewhere

  Ben Glass | April 19, 2008 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Here's an interesting story from Maine--it seems that a neurosurgeon with a serious malpractice claim pending in New York applied for and was given privileges to practice in Maine. The neurosurgeon...

• Nurse Arrested After Infecting Patients

  Ben Glass | March 29, 2008 9:59 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  In an unfortunate case of medical malpractice, a nurse suspected of theft of painkillers during surgical procedures is believed to have infected at least 15 members of military service or their relatives with hepatitis.The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was placed under arrest in Miami, Florida earlier in March and charged with assault of three of those patients and possession of a...

• Should a Nursing Home Be Required to Carry Insurance

  Ben Glass | March 28, 2008 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every so often we see debates in the media about whether hospitals, doctor, even lawyers, should be required to carry insurance. Required, that is, by law. Here's whats brewing in OklahomaAccording to a consumer group based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, many of the nursing homes in the state appear to be under operation without insurance for medical malpractice.According to Hugh M. Robert, the...

• Those Darn Frivolous Malpractice Cases

  Ben Glass | March 27, 2008 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every medical malpractice case is frivolous, right?Some folks can't utter the words "malpractice lawsuit" in a sentence that doesn't include the word "frivolous."How much is this one worth?A retired woman from Germany has filed a medical malpractice suit against a hospital after she went in to undergo a surgical procedure on her leg, but instead was surgically given a new anus, according to U.K....