Medical Malpractice

• Georgia Unfairly Restricts the Right to Sue E.R. Doctors

  Ben Glass | February 07, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A big difference to hospitals and patients could be made by a slight change in the wording of the malpractice reform law of the state of Georgia.Georgia Watch, a consumer advocacy group, is making a push for an amendment which would make it easier for patients who believe they have been harmed in the emergency room to file suit against hospitals.During the 2007 Georgia General Assembly, Senate...

• Meningitis Death Leads to Lawsuit

  Ben Glass | February 06, 2008 10:13 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  On Friday, January 11, a medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), by the family of Anne Ryan, a college sophomore who died from meningitis at the hospital on September 9. The family is alleging misdiagnosis and mistreatment by HUP. According to the family's lawyer, Thomas Kline, emergency room doctors at HUP failed to properly diagnose...

• The Insurance Industry Will Stop At Nothing

  Ben Glass | February 05, 2008 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Virginia is a very conservative state for practicing medical malpractice law. The Virginia docs won't testify against another doc, the university based medical school have basically told their docs that they'll get fired if they even try to help a patient and we have one of the worst malpractice cap laws in the country.And they just want to make it harder....Here's the text of a bill introduced...

• United States to Pay $750,000 To Settle Claim

  Ben Glass | February 04, 2008 10:10 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The United States has agreed to pay $750,000 as a settlement for a medical malpractice suit filed by the family of a woman from Florida who died after undergoing eight surgical procedures in a little over a month at Jacksonville Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida in 2005. Justice Department attorneys and relatives of Betty Jean Plato informed their court-appointed mediator on Wednesday,...

• Doctor Caught Reusing Syringes

  Ben Glass | February 03, 2008 5:06 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  It has been discovered that another doctor has been committing medical malpractice by reusing syringes to administer injections to patients. Last fall Dr. Jacob Simhaee, an obstetrician-gynecologist reused syringes while administering flu shots to at least 36 patients.Simhaee is not the first doctor to commit such an act of medical malpractice. Late in 2007, it was discovered that Dr. Harvey...

• $1,000,000 Fairfax, Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict

  Ben Glass | February 01, 2008 7:27 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  We are thankful and pleased to report a verdict for one of our medical malpractice clients in Fairfax, Virginia, yesterday.The case involved a 3 year delay in diagnosing rectal cancer. During this time the defendant ignored signs of rectal bleeding, attributing repeated findings and complaints of bleeding to 'hemorrhoids.' As a result of the delay the plaintiff, a 45 year old male, was deprived...

• NY Times-Emotional Toll of Medical Malpractice

  Ben Glass | October 26, 2007 1:03 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  There is an interesting blog at the New York Times blog today. It really points out what most medical malpractice lawyers see every day. Tremendous loss compounded by health care providers that 'close ranks' and turn their backs on patients.Not all providers of course, but many. Not deliberate, I am sure, but more of a defense reaction to "what the heck do I do now?" and not having been taught...

• Wow, Indiana's Cap is Bad Too

  Ben Glass | October 04, 2007 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Thanks to Wisconsin medical malpractice attorney Mike End for emailing me to point out that Indiana has a medical malpractice cap that tops out at $1.25 million dollars.Here's what's really crazy about their cap. A doctor is only responsible for the first $250,000 for any claim and then a state fund kicks in. And the doctor's total annual "cap" is $750,000. So, in Indiana, the MORE malpractice...

• MedMal Cap Forces More Trials

  Ben Glass | October 02, 2007 5:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  As we have pointed out before, Virginia is the only state in the country that caps total damages in a medical malpractice case. Most states that have enacted some form of tort reform have allowed an injured victim to recover all of their medical bills and lost wages (makes sense, doesn't it) but "capped" or limited recovery for such things as pain and suffering.No cap is a good cap but at least...

• Malpractice Cap Robs Another Victim

  Ben Glass | September 29, 2007 5:46 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Supreme Court of Virginia recently decided King v. Cooley, a medical malpractice case. The decision turned on whether certain evidence should have been admitted. Overlooked so far is the fact that this case shows exactly how Virginia's medical malpractice cap punishes the most severely injured.Tamatha Cooley alleged that Dr. Bradford King of Surgical Associates of Fredericks burg was guilty...