By: Kyle Cheney, Politico, August 1, 2013 The health care safety world is chock full of airplane crash clichés. Now, a real-life pilot-hero is flying to the rescue. Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger in 2009 coolly landed his jet safely on the Hudson River in...
Nobody expects doctors and hospitals to be perfect. But we do expect them to act carefully and reasonably in caring for us and our family. And like each of us, if they do not act carefully and reasonably, they are accountable for any harm caused by their actions. If a...
Medical malpractice and medical negligence within nursing home facilities represents a very real and growing problem. This month, the Ohio Attorney General announced an increase in allegations of nursing home abuse and neglect in Ohio. In 2013 alone, over 130 cases of...
The New England Journal of Medicine reports: Injuries due to medical errors are a major cause of death among Americans. Although some progress has been made in reducing certain types of adverse events, overall rates of errors remain extremely high. Failures of...
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...
