Updates and Insights
- Medical Malpractice Caps Can Limit Your Compensation
Nov 28, 2014
Imagine that you have just had surgery. It’s not a major surgery (although any surgery is a big deal) but it’s still invasive enough that you have to stay in a hospital overnight. As you rest in your hospital bed, you start to feel nauseous. Then, things take a turn for the worst and your doctors and nurses are scrambling to stabilize you. In the end you’re okay — but the whole ordeal happened because...Read More - Medical Malpractice Case Settled For 3825000
Nov 25, 2014
A malpractice case has been settled after defendant pediatricians, nurses, and hospital charged with the care of an eighteen month old child failed to take necessary action to address the child’s rapidly deteriorating condition. The eighteen month old child was seen at Defendant Pediatricians’ office four times over the course of three days presenting symptoms of fever and gastrointestinal upset. One of the pediatricians made the decision to transport the child to the hospital on an emergent...Read More - Study Improved Communication Cut Down On Medical Errors
Nov 20, 2014
What many people may not realize about the medical field is that the days of extremely long shifts are basically over. When we say “extremely long,” we’re talking about 36-hour shifts. These used to be very common, and most medical professionals expected these shifts, and had to prepare for them by resting up prior to — or even resting during — the shift. These extreme conditions have given way to shifts that usually end after...Read More - Report Finds Numerous Mistakes In Rivers Medical Treatment
Nov 14, 2014
As many New Jersey residents are aware, two months ago comedic legend and celebrity personality Joan Rivers passed away after undergoing a fairly routine surgery. In the weeks that followed Rivers’ death, there were questions about how the procedure was performed, and there were some not-so-subtle hints that River’s daughter Melissa was considering filing a lawsuit against the clinic and doctors responsible for her mother’s care. Now that potential lawsuit, which is believed to be...Read More - Must New Jersey Physicians Disclose A Lack Of Malpractice Coverage
Nov 13, 2014
A recent case in New Jersey will determine whether New Jersey physicians must disclose whether or not they have the required medical malpractice insurance coverage required by law. Every year, thousands of Americans are harmed by medical malpractice, resulting in injuries and death in some cases. Patients harmed by malpractice, or families of those killed by it, have a legal right to seek monetary compensation for their losses from the physician or surgeon responsible. However,...Read More - Prop 46 Follow Up Medical Malpractice Measure Voted Down
Nov 8, 2014
A few weeks ago, we wrote a blog post about a specific proposition in the state of California which would have forced doctors to have intoxication screenings, while also increasing the amount of money that a person could obtain through a medical malpractice lawsuit. Though it doesn’t have anything to do with New Jersey law, the proposal — called Proposition 46 — was an important litmus test for the medical field to see if such...Read More - Medical Malpractice Liability Has Little To Do With Medical Costs
Oct 30, 2014
One of the arguments that is made against medical malpractice lawsuits — and it is a similar argument that is made to explain why costs relating to medical care are so high — is that doctors and medical institutions have to order “defensive” tests and medical procedures to protect themselves from liability. In other words, they have no choice but to double- and triple-check things and to hold patients in the hospital for longer to...Read More - Medication Errors Are Serious And Life Threatening
Oct 23, 2014
Imagine that after a visit to the doctor’s office you are given a prescription by your doctor to deal with a relatively minor — but still serious — medical issue. With the right medicine, the proper dosage and your persistence in taking the medicine at the right time, your condition should significantly improve, or be cured all together, in a short time. So you go to the pharmacy to get your prescription and then in...Read More - Intoxication Screenings Payouts Caps Important To Medical Field
Oct 16, 2014
While the following story doesn’t have anything to do with New Jersey law, it does bring up two important factors in medical malpractice and medical safety that could be applicable anywhere. So forgive the geographical irrelevance in this story, and instead focus on these two elements: intoxicated doctors and medical malpractice lawsuit caps. The state of California has a motion on the docket this November that would add new rules that would require doctors to...Read More - How Do You Prove That Medical Malpractice Occurred in New Jersey?
Oct 9, 2014
After leaving your doctor’s office with possible signs of an illness or infection, you developed a serious infection. The doctor’s office never called you back with the lab test results. You suspect medical malpractice, but how do you prove it? The question may seem like a simple one: a patient went in for medical care, a doctor made a mistake and, as a result, the patient suffered more harm and incurred more medical bills. Simple,...Read More