Medical Justice is what appears to be a new organization whose aims are to “‘prevent, deter and respond’ to frivolous malpractice lawsuits.” This seems like a goal we—including good plaintiffs’ medical malpractice lawyers—can agree on, right? Frivolous lawsuits hurt everyone. For a cost of $625 to $1990 a year, Medical…
Medical malpractice lawyers in New York today released incredible surveillance camera video from Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, showing a 49-year-old woman dying on the floor of a psychiatric emergency room while being completely ignored by the hospital staff. The video shows the woman keeling over and falling…
Medical malpractice victims suffered a setback in Kentucky last week when the Supreme Court of Kentucky reversed the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling adopting the “lost or diminished chance of recovery” in medical malpractice cases in Kemper v. Gordon. (This defense verdict was, however, reversed on other grounds because the…
The University of Chicago Journal of Legal Studies published an interesting article on medical malpractice tort reform. Current Research on Medical Malpractice Liability: Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High-Risk Specialties, 36 J. Legal Stud. 121 (2007). The article supports the plaintiff’s view of medical malpractice tort reform… with a…
The Maryland Daily Record reports today that The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos intends to file an appeal in a Baltimore City medical malpractice case in which the Plaintiff’s $10.2 million jury verdict against University of Maryland Medical Center was capped at $632,500.00 because that is the limit on…
I read over the weekend an interesting decision from the Connecticut Supreme Court that came out last week. The case, Monti v. Wenkert, is an awful medical malpractice case involving a seventeen-year-old girl who presented with significant but subjective symptomology that her GP, physician’s assistant, and the hospital’s emergency room…
I wrote recently about what I thought was the primary fuel to the tort reform engine: people do not expect to be the victims of an accident that results from the negligence of someone else, and they do not expect to be victims of malpractice. Statistically, they are right. The…
On Wednesday, a Baltimore City jury awarded a 78-year-old Owings Mills woman $2 million in a medical malpractice case stemming from a failed surgery that led to three successive leg amputations. After the verdict, Defendant’s lawyer gave this quote to the Maryland Daily Record: “This reaffirms my long held view…
The Maryland Injury Law Center received today the following comment from an emergency room doctor in southern Maryland regarding my blog post on the alleged shortage of doctors in Maryland: “You are guilty of not supporting your assumptions with data as well. I practice emergency medicine in St. Mary’s County…
The New York Personal Injury Lawyer Blog tipped me off to an article in the Chicago Tribune last week about a patient who sued her eye doctor and his assistant alleging that the doctor’s assistant licked the patient’s toes during her eye exam in Skokie, Illinois. Apparently, the Plaintiff went…