Medical Malpractice

• Hepatitis Infection Risk Kept From Patients

  Ed Normand | December 04, 2007 8:50 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The reuse of syringes by a physician was kept from the public and the potentially infected patients even when known by the authorities. The state health departments and even officials from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were aware of the risk of infection but delayed reporting the problem. Incredibly the number of patients potentially infected may run in the thousands. ...

• Do You Know About Florida's Medical Malpractice Caps?

  Patricia Doherty | September 02, 2007 10:54 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The 2003 Florida Legislature with former Governeor Jeb Bush's backing passed caps on medical malpractice cases taking the decision of the amount of fair compensation of injuries away from the jury. Florida law has a $150,000.00 cap for "pain and suffering" for emergency room negligence and $500,000.00 caps for other cases. If medical negligence causes the wrongful death of a patient the cap may...

• Medicare Will Stop Paying for Negligent Care

  Ed Normand | August 30, 2007 6:09 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Well the Federal Government finally seems to be starting to do something about the extensive malpractice occurring in our hospitals. Up until now, if malpractice was committed on a patient at a hospital the hospital would actually profit from the malpractice by billing for and getting paid from Medicare for the cost of the care stemming from the malpractice that they caused. Now Medicare...

• "Runaway" Jury Verdicts Rarely Occur

  Bruce Gibson | August 15, 2007 7:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In a study published in the May edition of the Michigan Law Review, Professor Philip D. Peters, Jr. states that The efforts of the Bush administration to reform the tort system on medical malpractice and decrying 'runaway' jury verdicts was phony. Studies which were examined showed this claim to be unsupported by actual data. The study also revealed that juries are "more likely to defer to...

• Jury Finds USF Doctor Negligent

  Patricia Doherty | July 30, 2007 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A Tampa jury awarded a family $23.5 million dollars for the wrongful birth of their second child. The jury found a University of South Florida physician was negligent for giving the go ahead to the couple to have a second child even though the couple's first child had severe disabling birth defects. Had the doctor properly diagnosed this genetic disorder (Smith-Lemil-Opitz syndrome) in the...

• Don't Be A Victim of Medical Malpractice.

  Patricia Doherty | July 14, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Check out Eight Tips for a Safer Hospital Stay . These suggestions could make a hospital stay safer and prevent you and your family from being victims of hospital negligence or a doctor's malpractice.For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Medical Malpractice and Negligent Care.

• Appeals Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Award

  Sandy Grinnell | July 09, 2007 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The California 2nd Disctrict Court of Appeals upheld the decision of a lower court which awarded a County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center patient $150,000 in pain and suffering. Although the California medical malpractice awards caps are $250,000, a 28 year-old male patient of Harbor-UCLA hospital was awarded $150,000 for the pain and suffering he sustained due to complications from an emergency...

• Boston Scientific Confirms Increased Risk Linked to its Stent

  Staff Writer | September 07, 2006 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A leading stent manufacturer has admitted that there is an increased clot risk for those with Boston Scientific's cardiac stent. It is the first acknowledgment by a stent maker of an increased risk of the dangerous side effect of stents, which are small wire-mesh tubes used to keep previously clogged arteries open. Drug-coated stents, which are coated with medicine to prevent the growth of...

• Defibrillator Malfunctions on the Rise

  Joe Saunders | May 01, 2006 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  According to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, malfunctions in implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, are on the rise. The device is designed to keep the heart pumping properly and efficiently. Between 1990 and 2002, a total of 2.25 million pacemakers and 415,780 ICDs were implanted in the U.S. Of the implanted pacemakers, 8,834 (4.6 per 1,000)...

• Tampa VA Doc Uses Unsterilized Implant

  Joe Saunders | March 15, 2006 6:45 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In a hastily called briefing for Congressional staffers, authorities at the James A. Haley VA Center in Tampa announced that an unsterilized cranial implant was placed into a patient last month. The mistake was nearly duplicated a few weeks later at the same hospital. The hosptial officials waited nearly two weeks before notifying anyone of the error! Of course, the usual political...