The New York Times, May 16, 2013, by Joanna C. Schwartz MUCH of the discussion over the Affordable Care Act has focused on whether it will bring down health care costs. Less attention has been paid to another goal of the act: improving patient safety. Each year tens...
At the 2013 American Bar Association Midyear Meeting, Research Professor Stephen Daniels presented his findings on the impact of tort reform on medical malpractice lawyers and personal injury lawyers. Specifically, they studied the peoples' access to justice and the...
Source: The Pop Tort - December 3, 2013 Hey kids, it's December and that means finals! (You remember our last exam, right?) So get out those #2 pencils again. Actually, what year is this? Get out those laptops - and begin: Medical errors in the U.S. rank where as a...
Runaway Juries? Overinflated verdicts? Not according to the numbers. How the reality affects the practice of law Thanks to stories sensationalized by the media, as well as clever marketing by parties interested in limiting an injured person's access to the courts,...
While this article is written about the medical malpractice verdicts in California, the content is equally applicable to Ohio's tort reform laws. The authors explain quite clearly why limitations on damages in medical malpractice cases are harmful to citizen rights....
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...
