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February 3, 2010
Medical Malpractice Links
- This from the Deseret News summarizing a new study from BYU: "Because doctors spend less time on the job when their perceived risk of being sued for malpractice rises, those lost hours mean some 7 million people nationwide must find someone else to treat them." Does this sentence even make any sense? To the extent that I get what they are trying to say, who funded this project? Did the researchers look at the question of whether there is causation or mere association? Is the Deseret News capable of asking anything other than fluff questions or laying out the other side of the issue? Does anyone want a doctor who works less because they fear medical malpractice? Are those 7 million people who need to find other doctors finding better doctors? I continue to believe that most doctors are good doctors who really could not care less about any of this.
- Breast cancer misdiagnosis case in New York is going to the jury.
- Protect Consumer Justice notes the trend of decreased medical malpractice lawsuit filings regardless of whether there is a cap on damages
- Ervin Cohen & Jessup gets a $16.5 million verdict in a malpractice case which rendered their client a paraplegic. The claim against the hospital was settled so I wonder how collectable the verdict is against the neurosurgeon.
- The Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer Blog reports that the Illinois the Illinois Supreme Court will issue its much awaited opinion in Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital tomorrow, a case challenging the constitutionality of damage caps in medical malpractice lawsuits pursuant to the Illinois Medical Malpractice Act of 2005. This is the second the two big cap cases medical malpractice lawyers have been anticipating in 2010, the first being the tough loss in the Semsker case in Maryland.
