Lojack For Surgeons, and Happy Medical Liability Executives
Florida’s medical malpractice liability insurers have been profiting for the past 6 years. New liability companies apparently can’t wait to write medical malpractice “products” there. Here is the News Press’s take on how robust Florida’s market for medical liability insurance has become. And as Alan Belsky points out in in his firm’s blawg, Maryland Malpractice [...]
Update and Additional Twist on Story of FL Judge’s Retained Sponge
Since posting the story about the unfortunate Florida judge, I have come to learn that contrary to what I initially reported, the hospital has reached a settlement with the judge. The judge is now suing the surgeons and the radiologist involved. The article with the more comprehensive information appeared in the Miami Herald. Ashby Jones, [...]
My Suggestion For Reducing Costs Of Medical Malpractice
A Florida judge with diverticulitis trusted his surgeons to perform the surgery he needed in the proper manner. Unfortunately, his trust was misplaced, as they left a foot-long sponge inside his body. And to make matters worse, it took so long for his doctors to figure out what had happened that the sponge was literally [...]