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...
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...
