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…
How many times have you Googled for one purpose and then found something interesting unrelated to what you were looking for? This weekend, looking for something unrelated, I found a New Yorker article from two years ago on medical malpractice in the comments section of a blog. It is an…
The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun wrote yesterday about a recent report that Maryland faces a doctor shortage that may well become severe by 2015. We already have a shortage of doctors, and things will get worse? I don’t know anyone—family, friend, or client—who could not find a medical…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals found in a 2-1 decision last month that a reduction of 30 percent in the survival chances of a woman with uterine cancer as the result of medical malpractice is not actionable as a matter of Maryland law. Marcantonio v. Moen is a case…
On Monday, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts overturned the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a woman against a physician who had failed to warn his patient of the side effects of a medication. These side effects had caused the patient to lose consciousness at the wheel and kill…
I read this weekend a crazy story about a Tennessee medical malpractice case. The plaintiff sued a Tennessee lawyer for legal malpractice for botching a case which he supposedly should have won. The legal negligence case settled for $750,000 which means, if logic and reason were at all involved in…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a new product for malpractice lawyers called MedMal Reports. This company creates a report of the expected medical malpractice payout for a case based on the National Practitioner’s Data Bank. I received an email from MedMal Reports Chief Economist, Dr. David M. Frankel,…