U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Thwarts Access to Morbidity/Mortality Findings
The consumerist group, Consumers’ Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services won its lawsuit in 2007 forcing the Dept. of Health and Human Services to release Medicare claims data which would have allowed researchers to determine the frequency with which physicians in several states performed certain procedures, and what results were achieved, according to today’s Medical [...]
Fear of Lawsuits Prompts The Hartford’s Preemptive Strike Against Peanut Supplier
According to Alexandra D. Lahav, of the Mass Tort Litigation Blog, The Hartford has filed a declaratory judgement action against the Peanut Corporation of America, “presumably to avoid paying out on claims arising out of the spate of lawsuits we are about to see arising out of salmonella poisoning in peanut butter products.” Ah, those [...]
One-Man Medical Malpractice Machine Exhibits Litigious Tendencies
I love this story, which comes to us from West Virginia, courtesy of the Charleston Gazette. A local surgeon who managed to generate 124 medical malpractice lawsuits against himself in less than two years is apparently lawsuit-happy in a most unproductive way. He has sued the lawyers who defended him during hospital-initiated proceedings to terminate [...]