Articles Posted in Medical Malpractice

One of the driving forces behind tort reform in malpractice, both in Maryland and around the nation, is that these claims are usually frivolous and result in undeserved compensation for patients and their medical malpractice lawyers.

This month, the New England Journal of Medicine addressed this issue in a study of 1,500 randomly selected malpractice cases. The neat thing about the study is that impartial doctors reviewed the experts’ opinions in the pending cases and then assessed whether each patient was injured and, if so, whether medical malpractice caused the patient’s injury. They allowed the independent experts to act as judge and jury.

(2019 Update: This Johns Hopkins tells us that malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the country.)

The Life News in Kentucky reported last week the story of a medical malpractice suit brought by a Louisville couple against an obstetrician, claiming the wrongful death of their one-day-old baby girl. Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges that Dr. Ronachi Banchongmanie delivered their baby girl using “vacuum extractions.” Although the baby appeared pale and had rapid respirations, she was not sent to ICU but sent to the newborn nursery where further complications developed in the absence of emergency care.

Allegations made in a medical malpractice lawsuit are just one side’s version of the facts. But Dr. Banchongmanie is what medical malpractice lawyers refer to as a frequent flyer. This medical malpractice action was the second filed against him in the last two years, and one of more than a dozen medical malpractice lawsuits filed against this doctor in the last fifteen years.

Frequent Flyer Doctors