The Boston Globe, January 27, 2013, by Dr. Darshak Sanghavi DANIELLE BELLEROSE WENT THROUGH HELL before she finally got pregnant with twins in late 2003. Shortly thereafter, the then 28-year-old nurse and Massachusetts native developed a complication that required...
Recently, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral arguments in the case of Cromer v. Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron. The case addresses the issue of whether the precise harm to the patient in a medical malpractice case must be foreseen by the defendants, in...
By MARTY MAKARY, Wall Street Journal - September 22, 2012 When there is a plane crash in the U.S., even a minor one, it makes headlines. There is a thorough federal investigation, and the tragedy often yields important lessons for the aviation industry. Pilots and...
By BARRY MEIER, The New York Times - January 22, 2013 An internal analysis conducted by Johnson & Johnson in 2011 not long after it recalled a troubled hip implant estimated that the all-metal device would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients...
The last time that the state raised the minimum amount of auto insurance a driver must carry, a Ford Gran Torino cost $3,200. Now those levels are poised to increase for the first time since 1969. Under a law that will take effect in December, minimum-insurance...
By Gerald S. Leeseberg, Columbus Medical Malpractice LawyerFor Publication in Ohio Trial Magazine The Supreme Court has recently published for comment proposed changes to Civil Rule 10, governing affidavits of merit in medical claims, as well as some changes to the...
For years, the public has been fed a giant misinformation campaign designed to convince people that their constitutional right to file a lawsuit, when they have been injured or harmed, should be restricted or eliminated. Much of that campaign seeks to get people to...
A London, Kentucky hospital and 11 cardiologists performed over 3,000 unnecessary cardiac catheterization surgeries and countless other heart procedures on healthy patients. These unfortunate victims of medical malpractice will now be required to take dangerous...
Several years ago the legislature capped financial awards for medical malpractice lawsuits and now the state's largest physician group wants lawmakers to expand legal protections for doctors into additional areas. The Ohio State Medical Association wants the General...
Lawyers can help facilitate changes that affect our society. Those changes can be either small or seismic but attorneys must realize the impact they can make on those who are charged with rendering verdicts and enacting legislation. This was Gerald Leesebergs message...
