I promised in my last post to write more about our $2.5 million medical malpractice verdict on Monday, a post I will enjoy writing. But preparations for trial on Monday – the worst ankle break I have every seen suffered by maybe the sweetest client I have every taken to…
Almost two years ago now, Medicaid/Medicare liens became even more difficult to deal with as the law pushed to the lawyers and insurance companies the obligation of confirmation and resolution of Medicare/Medicaid liens. I’m sure betting an insurance company has yet to receive a fine for not verifying a lien…
Joanne Doroshow from the Center for Justice and Democracy writes a blog post for AOL the Huffington Post arguing that medical malpractice tort reform will increase the national debt. A few weeks ago, I observed that no one was saying anything new on the subject of tort reform. There is…
John T. Sly and Christina N. Billiet from Waranch & Brown write an article for the Maryland Defense Counsel newsletter about how to best attack plaintiffs’ experts out of the gate. One key tactic they advise is trying to get two depositions of the plaintiffs’ medical expert. Interestingly, they name…
It kills me how so many folks hold up the New England Journal of Medicine as the gold standard for anything and everything until it speaks up about preemption or medical malpractice reform. Then they become hacks for… well, nobody, really. Just hacks. The NEJM put out a recent article…
I read somewhere recently that making Top Ten lists really attracts readers. Regrettably, I don’t know ten things about fighting medical liens that I think you don’t know. But I know a few. I’ve been working harder and harder, trying to better understand the ins and outs of subrogation liens…
Judge Roger W. Titus handed down a new opinion last week on the interplay between Maryland health claims arbitration and medical malpractice cases in federal court. The nutshell: regardless of what you may have thought, there is no interplay. At all. Willever v. United States is a medical malpractice wrongful…
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided on a new malpractice case in Wantz v. Afzal. Facts Wantz is a Frederick County fatal medical malpractice case involving a staph infection following spinal fusion surgery after a slip and fall that allegedly caused the death of the plaintiff’s 77-year-old mother. At…
Good medical malpractice lawyers in Maryland read every high court opinion about medical malpractice. Yet I think everyone can skip the Maryland Court of Appeals opinion released today in Neustadter v. Holy Cross Hospital. Neustadter is a malpractice/wrongful death case involving the death of a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor. Another interesting…
In Muti v. University of Maryland Medical Systems, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals returned to a subject that, until recently, has gotten little attention by our appellate courts: “use plaintiffs” in wrongful death cases. This is a medical malpractice wrongful death and survival action claim brought by two men…