- Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyers Take on the Challenge of Proving Pain and Suffering By : Emily Gleason
Most Illinois lawyers know that as of 2001, pain and suffering is no longer just an element of damages, but a cause of action in medical malpractice. - Pharmacy Malpractice Lawyers & Attorneys By : Todd Going
As technology changes, pharmacies have adapted to new processes and tools, however despite the new equipment and changes, there is nothing that can be done to prevent the errors that are continuously being made. - Medical Malpractice - NY Lawyers No Longer Required To Ask Clients To Pay Them Back If Case Lost By : Gerry Oginski
A new law in New York just went into effect the other day. Lawyers no longer are required to pursue their clients for expenses the lawyers incurred on their behalf in unsuccessful lawsuits, in cases where the lawyers' fee was payable only if the client won. - Medical Malpractice: How Bad Is It Really? By : Lance Winslow
How bad is medical malpractice these days? How bad are our hospitals? How many people die from mistakes each year? How much do all these mal-practice lawsuits cost our healthcare insurance and the over all industry? Is it all as bad as they say? If so, then what on Earth can we do to fix it? - Fulbright Partner Andrew J. Demetriou Becomes Chair-Elect of The American Bar Association's Health By : Legal News
Andrew J. Demetriou, a partner with the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, has assumed the position of Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association's Health Law Section. As Chair-Elect, he will oversee appointments of Health Law Section members to leadership positions within the Section as well as liaison positions with other ABA entities. - Preliminary Injunction Ordered In PLAVIX® Patent Infringement Case By : Litigation News
Paris, France and New York - Sanofi-aventis (Paris Bourse: EURONEXT: SAN; and New York: NYSE: SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York: NYSE: BMY) (the "companies") today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted a preliminary injunction ordering Apotex Inc. and Apotex Corp. ("Apotex") to halt its sales of a generic version of clopidogrel bisulfate product that competes with PLAVIX®. - Schering-Plough Reaches Agreement With U.S. Attorney's Office For District Of Massachusetts By : Litigation News
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) has reached an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Department of Justice to settle the previously disclosed investigation involving the company's sales, marketing and clinical trial practices and programs. The agreement reached today resolves that investigation, which began prior to the arrival of the new management team. - US Marshals Seize Defective Infusion Pumps Made By Alaris Products By : Litigation News
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California issued a warrant for seizure of Alaris Signature Edition Gold infusion pumps, model numbers 7130, 7131, 7230 and 7231. The pumps are manufactured by Cardinal Health Care 303, Inc. and the seizure occurred August 25. The seized infusion pumps have a design defect called "key bounce" that may cause potential over-infusion of medications. - Is there Such Thing as a Well-Intentioned Lawyer Who Made a Mistake? By : Lance Winslow
- Cerebral Palsy Lawsuits By : Jason Gluckman
- Locate a Cerebral Palsy Lawyer By : Kristy Annely
- A Guide to Cerebral Palsy Lawyers By : Kristy Annely
- Birth-Injury-Related Cerebral Palsy By : Kristy Annely
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- Medical Malpractice- 10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Sue Your Doctor By : Gerry Oginski
Learn the 10 reasons why you shouldn't sue your doctor- (1) You like your doctor, (2) What good will the money do for you? (3) Your doctor's reputation will be tarnished, (4) Your doctor will be banished from his community, (5) Your doctor will shut his medical practice, (6) Your doctor may lose his license, (7) Your doctor may alter your records, (8) Your doctor may apologize and tell you it was all a mistake, (9) Your friends and family may think you're a gold-digger, (10) Your injuries aren't that disabling. - Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Features Recent Developments Related To Medical Malpractice By : Litigation News
The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report highlights recent developments related to medical malpractice in two states. Summaries appear below.
Florida: The Florida Medical Association on Thursday asked physicians in the state to require patients to sign a waiver prior to treatment that would cap noneconomic damages in potential malpractice lawsuits at $250,000, the St. Petersburg Times reports. - Landmark Introduces an Affordable and Scalable Volume Visualization and Interpretation Solution By : Legal News
Landmark, a brand of the Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) Digital and Consulting Solutions division, is introducing a new high-performance team-room visualization and interpretation solution at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) trade show in New Orleans. - Philadelphia Hormone Therapy Trial Finishes First Phase By : Litigation News
Wyeth (NYSE: WYE) announced today that the case of Jennie Nelson v. Wyeth, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas will continue to the second, or liability, phase following today's jury decision in the first phase of the trial. During the first part of this bifurcated (two-phase) trial, the jury found that the plaintiff's use of hormone therapy was a cause of her breast cancer and determined compensatory damages of $1.5 million. - Supreme Court Declines To Hear Privacy Suit Over Electronic Health Records By : Litigation News
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit by privacy advocates alleging that a federal rule on the disclosure of personal information on electronic health records is insufficient, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The federal rule, implemented in 2003, allows health care providers to decide whether to seek patients' consent before using or disclosing medical information electronically for routine purposes. - U.S. Court Of Appeals Sets January For Arguments Over Erroneously Sent Medicare Premium By : Litigation News
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday issued a temporary hold on an order by a lower court that CMS must inform 230,000 Medicare beneficiaries who received erroneous reimbursements of their Medicare prescription drug benefit premiums of their right to request a waiver of recovery of the funds, the Washington Post reports. - Federal Trial Begins For HMO Charged With Denying Pregnant Women, Seriously Ill People Coverage By : Litigation News
The federal trial for Chicago-based HMO Amerigroup Corporation -- who has been charged with denying pregnant women and seriously ill people health care coverage -- began Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reports. - Federal Agencies Collected $1.47B In Fraud From Government Health Insurance Programs In FY 2005 By : Litigation News
The Department of Justice and the HHS Office of Inspector General in a report issued this week announced that their joint Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program -- which attempts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in federal health care programs -- will collect $1.47 billion from criminal or civil cases brought during fiscal year 2005, The Hill reports. - Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By Plaintiff In Doe V. Bolton To Overturn Companion Case To Roe V. Wade By : Litigation News
The Supreme Court on Tuesday without comment rejected an appeal by Sandra Cano -- the anonymous plaintiff "Mary Doe" in the 1973 Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, the companion case to Roe v. Wade -- to overturn the decision, CNN.com reports (Mears, CNN.com, 10/10). - FDA Attorneys Seek Dismissal Of Plan B Lawsuit; CRR Lawyers Seek Subpoenas For White House Documents By : Litigation News
The Center for Reproductive Rights on Wednesday during two hearings at a U.S. District Court in New York City asked federal judges to grant a subpoena of White House documents and officials in its lawsuit against FDA over the agency's rejection of Barr Laboratories' first application for nonprescription Plan B sales, Long Island Newsday reports (Kerr, Long Island Newsday, 10/12). - Judge Declares Mistrial In Case Against Wyeth's Prempro By : Litigation News
A judge in a Pennsylvania state court in Philadelphia on Wednesday declared a mistrial in a case in which a jury ruled that the use of Wyeth's combination hormone replacement therapy Prempro in part caused breast cancer to develop in a 66-year-old woman, the Wall Street Journal reports. Judge Norman Ackerman of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas granted the mistrial following a motion filed by Wyeth (Wall Street Journal, 10/12). - Medical Malpractice Definition By : Donald Harris
Ever year people die from being misdiagnosed and treated for the wrong disease. The difference can be life and death! - Scalia During ACLU Debate Says Liberal Judges Have Improperly Established Abortion Rights By : Litigation News
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday during a debate with American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen said that liberal judges have inappropriately established rights such as abortion, the AP/ABC News reports (Yen, AP/ABC News, 10/15). - UnitedHealth CEO McGuire Resigns Over Backdated Stock Options By : Litigation News
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group on Sunday announced that company Chair and CEO William McGuire will resign as chair immediately and resign as CEO by Dec. 1, after the release of a report that found McGuire likely received backdated stock options, the AP/Washington Post reports (Freed, AP/Washington Post, 10/16). - Timothy F. Brick Elected Chairman of Metropolitan Water Board of Directors By : Legal News
Timothy F. Brick, the longest tenured member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, was elected today as chairman of the agency’s board, which oversees the major water importer and wholesaler for 18 million people in six Southland counties. - Former FDA Chief Crawford Pleads Guilty To Not Disclosing Financial Ties To Agency-Regulated By : Litigation News
Lester Crawford, who resigned as FDA commissioner last year, is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges that he failed to disclose his and his wife's ownership of stock in companies regulated by the agency, according to his attorney, Barbara Van Gelder, the Washington Post reports (Kaufman, Washington Post, 10/17). - Brain Injury Lawyer By : Al Villa
Some times in life we face terrible experiences. Some people have experienced traumatic things such as a birth injury in a child. A person may not understand what happened. What went wrong? How do you find out? This is a good time to know that a Birth Injury Lawyer may be the best help you can get. - Former FDA Administrator Crawford Pleads Guilty In Conflict Of Interest Case By : Litigation News
Lester Crawford, who resigned as FDA commissioner in September 2005, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to charges of false reporting and conflicts of interest related to ownership of stocks in companies that are regulated by the agency, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports (Bridges, AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/18). - California Court Rules In Favor Of SPLENDA(R) Sweeteners In Lawsuit Against Sugar Association By : Litigation News
The U.S. District Court (Central District) of California yesterday denied the Sugar Association's motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, on behalf of its SPLENDA(R) Sweeteners products. - California Court Rules In Favor Of SPLENDA® (Sucralose) Sweeteners In Lawsuit Against Sugar By : Litigation News
The U.S. District Court (Central District) of California yesterday denied the Sugar Association's motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, on behalf of its SPLENDA® (sucralose) Sweeteners products. - Blue Cross Of California Settles Patient Accusations That It Systematically Canceled Policies By : Litigation News
Blue Cross of California on Tuesday agreed to settle more than 70 lawsuits and claims filed by individual health plan members who alleged that Blue Cross illegally revoked their coverage, the Los Angeles Times reports. The suits accused Blue Cross of violating state laws that prohibit insurers from canceling coverage unless a policyholder intentionally lied on the medical history application. - New York State Court Of Appeals Upholds State's Contraceptive Coverage Law, Roman Catholic Church By : Litigation News
The New York State Court of Appeals on Thursday voted 6-0 to uphold rulings by the New York Supreme Court and the Appellate Division to leave intact a state law that requires employers -- including the Roman Catholic Church and other religious organizations -- who offer prescription drug plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved contraceptives for women, the New York Times reports (Lueck, New York Times, 10/20). - BlueCross BlueShield Of Illinois Proposes Small Business Health Insurance Mandate By : Litigation News
BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois has proposed legislation that would require small businesses with between two and 50 employees to provide health insurance for workers, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. - How To Get Help With Medical Malpractice By : Joseph Hanoa
Medical malpractice is a category of personal injury law. A personal injury occurs when the actions or negligence of another causes injury to your person, property, reputation or rights. - Mississippi Supreme Court Issues Stay In Court-Ordered $20M Payments To Smoking Cessation Program By : Litigation News
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday voted 6-1 to freeze funds to the Partnership for Healthy Mississippi for tobacco cessation programs pending a county court decision to determine how funds from the 1997 tobacco settlement can be distributed, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. - Massachusetts Attorney General Sues Low-Cost Health Insurer Alleging Unfair Practices By : Litigation News
Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Texas-based HealthMarkets, which sells low-cost health insurance to small businesses and students in the state, accusing the company of deceptive marketing practices and improper denials of patient claims, the Boston Globe reports. - Trial Involving Medical Workers Accused Of Infecting Libyan Children With HIV Involves By : Litigation News
The "scientific community, AIDS activists and Libyan government would do well to recognize ... the political and diplomatic import of the case" involving five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV, Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes in a PLoS Medicine opinion piece (Garrett, PLoS Medicine, 10/26). - Lawsuit Alleges Aetna's Limited-Benefits Plans Misleading By : Litigation News
The consumer advocacy group Citizens for Economic Opportunity on Wednesday filed suit in a Connecticut court alleging that limited-benefits health insurance plans sold by Aetna subsidiary Strategic Resources Company mislead consumers into thinking they have more comprehensive coverage than the plans provide, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. - Laurie Garrett On Health Workers Sentenced To Die In Libya By : Litigation News
In an essay published urgently in the international open access journal PloS Medicine, Pulitzer Prize winning author Laurie Garrett warns that if Libya proceeds with the executions of six foreign health workers accused of infecting children with HIV, the appalling injustice will threaten health workers worldwide and endanger their patients in the poorest parts of the world. - USA Today Examines Issues Supreme Court Will Decide In Challenge To Federal Abortion Ban By : Litigation News
USA Today on Monday examined how Congress' "power to limit the reach" of Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans -- by "restricting medical options for women" will be tested in the Department of Justice's appeal to the high court to uphold a federal law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion (Biskupic, USA Today, 10/30). - Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments In Case Challenging Michigan's Ban On Certain Late-Term By : Litigation News
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday heard arguments in an appeal of a lower court's ruling that declared unconstitutional a Michigan law that would have banned so-called "partial-birth" abortions, the AP/Detroit Free Press reports (Kinney, AP/Detroit Free Press, 10/26). - Bextra Lawsuit, Legal And Drug Information For Stroke And Heart Attack Sufferers By : Ian Brookes
Bextra is a type of drug known as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs). It is also the brand name for the generic drug Valdecoxib. Bextra is known as a cox-2 inhibitor, which is a class of painkillers that are popularly used due to their efficiency in treating arthritis pain and other ailments. - Insmed Announces Addition of Top 25 Patent Lawyer to Litigation Team By : Legal News
Insmed Incorporated (Nasdaq: INSM) announced today the addition of Henry Bunsow as outside counsel to its legal team. Mr. Bunsow was recently named one of the top 25 patent attorneys in California. - Chinese Appeals Court Orders Retrial For Human Rights Advocate Chen Guangcheng By : Litigation News
An appeals court in China's Shandong province on Tuesday ordered a retrial for human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng -- who was arrested in China after trying to expose alleged human rights abuses associated with the enforcement of the country's one-child-per-family policy -- according to one of Chen's lawyers, the New York Times reports (Kahn, New York Times, 11/1). - Medical Workers Charged With Infecting Libyan Children With HIV Were Tortured, Attorneys Say By : Litigation News
Attorneys for five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV on Tuesday during a hearing in their retrial said that the health workers were tortured while in custody, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (Geblawi, AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/31). - Amerigroup Must Pay At Least $144M After Jury Found HMO Systematically Avoided Enrolling Pregnant By : Litigation News
A federal jury in Chicago on Monday ordered Virginia-based health insurer Amerigroup, which had operated Medicaid managed care plans in Illinois, to pay $48 million in damages -- an amount that will triple to $144 million under the federal False Claims Act -- for discrimination against pregnant women and other beneficiaries with health issues, the Chicago Tribune reports. - Illegal Liposuction Surgeons May Evade Justice Through Deportation By : Charlene Nuble
Recent events in Boston, Massachusets have left a family bereft of one member and the pepetrator responsible for the loss seems to have found a way to evade prosecution. One Luiz Carlos Ribeiro, and his wife, Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro, were charged with manslaughter after performing an illegal underground liposuction operation on a 24 year old woman, one Fabiola DePaula. - Amerigroup Must Pay At Least $144M After Jury Found HMO Systematically Avoided Enrolling Pregnant Women By : Litigation News
A federal jury in Chicago on Monday ordered Virginia-based health insurer Amerigroup, which had operated Medicaid managed care plans in Illinois, to pay $48 million in damages -- an amount that will triple to $144 million under the federal False Claims Act -- for discrimination against pregnant women and other beneficiaries with health issues, the Chicago Tribune reports (Bush, Chicago Tribune, 10/31). - Several Arguments In Briefs Of Appeal Of Federal Abortion Ban Addressed To Justice Kennedy By : Litigation News
Numerous arguments in the briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court for a Department of Justice appeal to uphold a federal law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion are "clearly, if implicitly, addressed" to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the New York Times reports (Greenhouse, New York Times, 11/5). President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S 3) into law in November 2003. - Federal Judge Grants CRR Subpoenas For White House Documents, Testimony In Plan B Lawsuit By : Litigation News
Federal Magistrate Viktor Pohorelsky on Monday ruled that the Center for Reproductive Rights can seek more than three years of White House documents related to FDA's rejection in 2004 of Barr Laboratories' application for nonprescription sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, the AP/Washington Post reports (AP/Washington Post, 11/9). - Supreme Court Justices In Arguments Of Federal Abortion Ban Challenge Ask About Medical Details By : Litigation News
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday during arguments in a Department of Justice appeal to uphold a federal law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion focused "intensely" on the medical methods used in the procedures banned by the law and its health implications, the Washington Post reports (Lane, Washington Post, 11/9). - Fla. AG Crist Asks Court To Review Ballot Proposal That Would Require $20M In Annual Appropriations By : Litigation News
Florida Attorney General and Gov.-elect Charlie Crist (R) on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to review a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the state to appropriate $20 million annually for 10 years to human embryonic stem cell research projects, the AP/Bradenton Herald reports. - Restaurant Association Files Suit To Block San Francisco Universal Health Care Law By : Litigation News
The Golden Gate Restaurant Association, a culinary trade group with more than 800 members in San Francisco, has filed a lawsuit against the city to block part of an ordinance that requires businesses with 20 or more employees to contribute to the cost of workers' health care, the New York Times reports (Marshall, New York Times, 11/14). - Medical Malpractice Lawsuits By : Joseph Hanoa
Medical malpractice lawsuits can take a long time, depending on the complexity of the case. Most, but not all, cases are settled out of court. - 8th Circuit Court Panel Hears Arguments In Appeal Of Ruling That Union Pacific Railroad Must Cover C By : Alzheimers News
If a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a federal court ruling that Union Pacific Railroad must cover contraceptives in its health insurance plan, it could mandate all companies to provide contraceptive coverage, 8th Circuit Court Judge Pasco Bowman said on Thursday in St. Louis during arguments in the appeal of the ruling, the AP/Kansas City Star reports (Leonard, AP/Kansas City Star, 11/17). - District Court Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction In Ortho V. Amgen Suit By : Litigation News
Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN), today announced that United States District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler has denied Ortho Biotech's request for a preliminary injunction against the 2006 Amgen Portfolio Contract. The lawsuit involves Amgen sales discounts on Aranesp(R) (darbepoetin alfa) to its best customers. - Libya Must Free The 6 Health Workers Wrongly Accused Of Infecting Children With HIV By : Litigation News
Libya must acknowledge that the case involving six health workers accused of deliberately infecting over 400 children with HIV has no legal foundation, states an Editorial in The Lancet. The Lancet calls for these health workers to be freed immediately. - Tobacco Companies Admit Their Products Cause Cancer, But Not In Those Who Sue Them By : Litigation News
Despite publicly admitting, to varying degrees, that cigarette smoking causes cancer, the industry has consistently dismissed these claims for people who have sued them, reveals an analysis of recent lawsuits, published in a supplement to Tobacco Control. - Revision Of Rape Laws In Pakistan Is A Valuable Step Towards Empowering Women By : Litigation News
Pakistan's recent vote in favour of the Women's Protection Bill, which allows rape cases to be tried under the civil penal code rather than under Sharia law - Chinese Court Upholds 4-Year, 3-Month Prison Term For Human Rights Advocate Chen Guangcheng By : Litigation News
A court in China's Shandong province on Friday upheld a four-year, three-month prison sentence for human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng -- who was arrested in China after attempting to bring a class-action lawsuit against the government for alleged human rights abuses associated with the enforcement of the country's one-child-per-family policy -- the Washington Post reports (Fan, Washington Post, 12/1). - Maryland Attorneys Appeal Ruling Against Fair Share Health Care Act, Lawmakers Examine Other Ways To By : Litigation News
Attorneys for the state of Maryland on Thursday argued before a federal appeals court in defense of a law that would require Wal-Mart Stores to increase spending on health care for employees, the AP/Hampton Roads Daily Press reports (Chen Sampson, AP/Hampton Roads Daily Press, 11/30). - Connecticut Judge Orders HMOs To Publicly Release Information On Reimbursements For Medicaid Benefic By : Litigation News
Three HMOs that administer managed care plans for Connecticut's Medicaid program must make public the rates they pay providers and other information, state Superior Court Judge George Levine ruled on Wednesday, the Hartford Courant reports. - Indiana AG Carter, Planned Parenthood Representatives Sign Settlement Denying Access To Medical Reco By : Litigation News
Indiana AG Carter, Planned Parenthood Representatives Sign Settlement Denying Access To Medical Records Of Patients Under Age 14 - Kansas Supreme Court Declines Abortion Clinics' Request To Appoint Special Prosecutor, Seize Records By : Litigation News
The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request by two abortion clinics in the state to seize from state Attorney General Phill Kline (R) the medical records of 90 women and girls who underwent late-term abortions - CRR Should Be Denied Access To White House Documents, Testimony In Plan B Lawsuit, DOJ Letter Says By : Litigation News
The Center for Reproductive Rights is on a "fishing expedition" for White House documents and testimony in a case related to FDA's rejection in 2004 of Barr Laboratories' application for nonprescription sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, and it should be denied the right to review such files, Department of Justice attorney John Tyler wrote in a letter sent to CRR on Thursday - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Revives Class-Action Lawsuit Against Independence Blue Cross By : Litigation News
Advocacy groups will be able to proceed with a class-action lawsuit alleging that Philadelphia-based insurer Independence Blue Cross keeps excessive surplus funds after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a commonwealth Court decision that the courts had no jurisdiction in the case - NIH Scientist Charged With Conflict-of-Interest Violation By : Litigation News
Federal prosecutors on Monday charged NIH scientist Trey Sunderland with one misdemeanor count for violation of federal conflict-of-interest rules over his alleged acceptance of $285,000 in consulting fees and other payments from Pfizer and failure to disclose the agreement properly, the Washington Post reports (Fahrenthold, Washington Post, 12/5). - ACLU Affiliate Files Suit Saying R.I. College Violated First Amendment By Removing Signs By : Litigation News
Rhode Island College violated the First Amendment rights of a student group last year when it removed signs placed to advocate for reproductive freedom and protest "the refusal of contraception by pharmacists," according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court on Monday by the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Providence Journal reports. - ACLU Affiliate Files Suit Saying R.I. College Violated First Amendment By Removing Signs Protesting By : Litigation News
Rhode Island College violated the First Amendment rights of a student group last year when it removed signs placed to advocate for reproductive freedom and protest "the refusal of contraception by pharmacists," according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court on Monday by the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Providence Journal reports. - More Trans Fat Law Suits After NYC Three Already Successful, Theories Abound By : Litigation News
New York City's decision to ban trans fat increases the likelihood of even more trans fats law suits -- three of which have already been successful -- by focusing attention on the problem, and also showing that removing trans fat from a vast variety of foods is feasible, says the public interest law professor who has been called the lawyer "Who's Leading the Battle Against Big Fat," and "a Major Crusader Against Big Tobacco and Now Among Those Targeting the Food Industry." - Medicine and the Law: Something's Got to Give By : Richard Hall
Throughout the nation, our healthcare system is struggling under the weight of lawsuits and miscellaneous legal costs. The problem is not simply that of the lawyer, but includes doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, and the public. - The Impact of High Legal Costs on Healthcare By : Richard Hall
Spending money on legal fees is a part of our society, especially in the healthcare industry. There is a time and place for the legal system in healthcare, but more and more we unfortunately see instances where legal fees are unnecessary or high, resulting in a significant impact on doctors and nurses and the services provided to patients. - Malpractice Lawsuits are Devastating in Many Ways By : D. Valerian
There are many types of harmful medical mistakes and potential mistakes for which malpractice suits, and threats of malpractice suits, represent virtually the only control. The problem with lawsuits to correct these actions is that identification is often random and incomplete, and frequently the suits respond to bad luck rather than bad practice. - What Is More Important Than An Error In Medication By : D. Valerian
One of the points I want stress is that medication errors happen. I also want stress that, despite of health providers' best efforts and other peoples' expectations, we are not now and never will be perfect. We all make mistakes, it is human. I make them. You make them. Everyone makes them. - How to Become a Medical Malpractice Lawyer in New York By : Gerry Oginski
Medical malpractice law in New York- Learn what it takes to become a great trial attorney. - An Eye Injury Lawyer Talks About Medical Malpractice Claims and Eye Doctors By : Evan Aidman
The first thing we do- let's sue all the eye doctors. This 21st Century update on Shakespeare's famous quotation accurately sums up the attitude of many who have had a less than optimal medical outcome for their eye condition. - Young Parents - Your Attention Please - Birth Injury By : Raveendran Nambyar
Young parents! This is for those of you who face grim situations such as birth injury to your child or your friend's child. Don't feel so depressed! There are things you can do. Put in your claim for adequate compensation with the help of an expert lawyer in the field. Seek the best medical help available for your child. - Texas Cerebral Palsy Lawyer By : Terry Dunn
Cerebral Palsy is a serious medical condition, which effects children's control over their muscle movement. 'Cerebral' refers to the head while 'palsy' relates to problems controlling the muscles in the body. Children who develop cerebral palsy may not be able to function in the same way that other children do, which may include problems walking, eating, talking or enjoying everyday play. This condition may be caused by damage to the brain either before, during or after birth. Cerebral palsy does not get worse, but the effects can worsen over time. It first develops due to faulty development or damage to the motor areas in the brain. - Medical Malpractice Review By : Stewart Alexander
Medical Malpractice is one of the main reasons for rising costs in the health care sector. - Emergency Room Errors By : Tara Pingle
Even the best emergency room is a high stress environment where split-second decisions can mean the difference between life and death. - 10 Misconceptions About New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers By : Gerry Oginski
Misconceptions about New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers. Learn why most misconceptions are myth, and learn which are fact. A must read for anyone interested in malpractice. - Medical Negligence Explained By : Carolyn Clayton
Medical negligence is where a health professional acted negligently. For instance if you have been diagnosed wrongly and went on to have an unnecessary operation, this would be classed as medical negligence. If you suffered as a result physically or even mentally then you should be entitled to claim damages from medical negligence. - I Am A Doctor - How Do I Avoid A Malpractice Suit By : Sebanti Ghosh
If you are a doctor, you are most likely to face a malpractice suit. There can be situations when your patient is not satisfied with the results. In that case, you are likely to face problems. Sometimes doctors get into problems when they are not even guilty of the act.
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