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When people get sick or suffer injuries, they place their trust in medical professionals to help speed their recovery. Most of the time, medical professionals act with the utmost care and do whatever they can to help their patients. Sometimes, however, medical professionals violate their duty to provide competent care and, through their actions, cause the injury or death of a patient. FindLaw’s Medical Malpractice News is the leading online source of timely news about medical malpractice, including developments in the law and major medical malpractice cases. FindLaw also provides medical malpractice articles by attorneys that can help those who have experienced an injury as a result of a medical professional’s negligence.
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The oversight provided by medical malpractice insurance is more comprehensive than that provided by direct government regulation.
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seeks to misuse the FOIA in an effort to obtain confidential and privileged litigation files of opposing counsel and their clients in the ... medical malpractice suit.
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Medical organizations are trying to deal with medical malpractice not by making sure their surgeons are doing top-notch work, but by going after the guys acting as expert witnesses
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My depression worsened during the treatment, and there was no change in my sexual orientation... This is a form of medical malpractice, with practitioners who make claims about healing something that is not an illness.
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We've introduced an island-wide commercial medical malpractice insurance policy
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We are focusing on the legal implications for American patients who are victims of overseas medical malpractice. We believe they may well be entitled to recovery through the U.S. judicial system
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From these pleadings, we cannot say that the claim is necessarily one of medical malpractice.
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proposed medical malpractice complaint is considered filed when mailed by certified mail to the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance.
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The collateral damage from deny and defend has been underappreciated. Its impact has long obscured the direct connection between lapses in patient safety and medical malpractice litigation
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Since 2010 to date, we have seen several recurrent issues in complaints that have been brought to us to look into. The top 10 complaint causes include poor records management, clinical care and treatment and failure to diagnose.
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Birth injury cases are always emotional matters, but the facts of this case were particularly shocking because the reason this delivery was delayed was that the obstetrician thought the baby was dead
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Because this is a medical-malpractice case, most of the witnesses are doctors
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It is the sense of the Senate that— health care reform presents an opportunity to address issues related to medical malpractice and medical liability insurance.
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Republicans have recycled their old medical malpractice liability legislation that undermines states’ rights and hurts the rights of injured patients to obtain just compensation
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Physicians are fleeing because of high medical malpractice insurance premiums
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Medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available.
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The Feres Doctrine is a universally criticized, unjust law that needs to be overturned in the interest not only of Colton but military servicemen and women everywhere, particularly in medical malpractice
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Medical malpractice claims are not a significant driver of health care costs for Exeter Hospital
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Hundreds of doctors, joined by hundreds of patients and other caregivers, overflowed State House corridors Tuesday lobbying for reform in the medical malpractice system they say is forcing physicians in high risk specialties to abandon their practices. Gov. Mitt Romney vowed to stand with the doctors an...
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Although the numbers are likely to show slight changes in the years ahead, the pattern suggests a solid footing for the systematic tracking and rule changes initiated a decade ago by the Supreme Court to address concern over medical malpractice litigation.
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We wanted to follow-up our earlier study by studying the magnitude of defense costs in medical malpractice and to explore how those costs vary by specialty
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When babies are born, parents are relieved to see 10 finger and 10 toes. When negligence on the part of a medical professional affects this, it could be a case of a medical malpractice
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In a medical malpractice case, where proof of causation requires a certain degree of expertise, the plaintiff must present expert testimony to establish causation.
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Attaching at the very last minute a medical malpractice bill that provides protection to every entity involved in medical malpractice except the victim is just wrong
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Attaching at the very last minute a medical malpractice bill that provides protection to every entity involved in medical malpractice
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