News to Begin the Week
Did the fertility docs who impregnated the California woman who just birthed octuplets commit medical malpractice? In light of the mother’s reproductive history, that is a question that merits serious consideration, according to Washington State’s News Tribune.
Head of Illinois Trial Lawyers speaks out against tort reform that unfairly penalizes those plaintiffs who are most in need [...]
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 [...]
PRI Issues Book on Protecting Physicians from Malpractice Litigation
According to today’s Business Wire, Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers, the “second-largest medical malpractice writer in New York State and one of the leaders in the nation,” has published a book entitled, PRACTICING MEDICINE IN DIFFICULT TIMES: PROTECTING PHYSICIANS FROM MALPRACTICE LITIGATION. It purports to provide physicians with a better understanding of “the current medical litigation landscape” and [...]