A 2013 study conducted by Public Citizen has concluded that medical malpractice payments on behalf of doctors are not contributing to any increase in health care costs. Specifically, the study determined that the number of medical malpractice payments on behalf of...
September 20, 2014, Los Angeles Times, by Michael Hiltzik Tort reform," which is usually billed as the answer to "frivolous malpractice lawsuits," has been a central plank in the Republican program for healthcare reform for decades. The notion has lived on despite...
Insurance Journal, May 8, 2013 Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and "frivolous" payouts are among the...
BY: STEVE COHEN, INSURANCE JOURNAL A jury in one of New York's most conservative counties recently returned a $130 million verdict in a medical malpractice case, the second-largest in the state's history. Lawyers for the losing hospital decried a "jury out of control"...
In Estate of Johnson v. Smith, Supreme Court of Ohio recently addressed Ohio's "apology statute" (R.C. 2317.43) which prohibits the use of a physician's statement of sympathy to a victim as evidence of an admission of liability, and prohibits the statement's use in...
Untreated Heroin Withdrawal Results in Death and Civil Rights Lawsuit Cleveland, Ohio. March 7, 2014. A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed today against Richland County jail officials who failed to treat Corey Tolar's heroin withdrawal which resulted in his death...
Once again, Medical Malpractice Lawyers Gerald Leeseberg has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation for 2014. This honor marks the 17th consecutive year Mr. Leeseberg has been granted such distinction. He continue to prove...
From Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys Magazine, Spring 2011 Editor's Note: Recently, Ellen Hobbs Hirshman [EHH] hosted a "roundtable" conference call with three plaintiffs' lawyers, one defense lawyer, and a judge, to discuss obstructionist tactics during...
By Meghan Connolly and Dennis Mulvihill, January 20, 2014, Cleveland.com Dr. Michael Kirsch's column ("Litigation fever causing headaches for able physicians," published in The Plain Dealer Jan. 12) is the epitome of a double standard. While he says that we,...
It's reported that there are possibly as many as 440,000 deaths per year associated with malpractice in hospitals, four times as many as was previously thought. A recent study concludes that the epidemic of patients getting hurt in hospitals must be taken more...
