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 [...]
Searching For New York’s Medical Malpractice Crisis
Remember the regular hand wringing about New York’s medical malpractice “crisis”? Doctors were said to be leaving the state in droves. OB/GYNs were dropping the OB. Neurosurgeons were retiring early. Hospitals and medical liability insurance companies in the state suggested they were close to bankruptcy…all because of the dreaded plaintiff’s lawyers and the “jackpot justice” [...]
Alternatives to Tort “Reform” That Don’t Hurt Med Mal Victims
The State of New Jersey has taken an innovative approach to addressing a longstanding concern of physicians in high-risk practices. According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, a recently passed bill would require the state’s doctors and lawyers to each contribute toward a state fund that would ease the relatively higher medical malpractice insurance premiums paid [...]