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This article underscores the abject failure of medical error reporting programs – and laws that require reporting – because no one is really trying to enforce the laws that already exists in 27 states, including Maryland, requiring hospitals and other facilities to report serious medical malpractice. Every once in a blue moon, a hospital does […]

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A recent Jury Verdict Research study looking at jury verdicts found that the average wrongful death verdict for men is $4,132,576 and the median is $1,400,000. The average wrongful death verdict for women is $3,158,223, and the median is $1,200,000. It is tempting to look at these numbers and provide an easy answer to the discrepancy: […]

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In Allen v. United States, the government received summary judgment in North Dakota District Court in a medical malpractice case because they failed to retain an expert to offer opinions as to causation. Plaintiff received transfusions at the Grand Forks Air Force Base Hospital in South Dakota over ten years ago. In 2005, while attempting […]