Study reveals that over 400,000 deaths per year in America alone are attributed to preventable hospital errors. Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned over the staggering number of preventable deaths that occur in the American hospitals every year due to medical malpractice. Hospital patients expect a certain...
Thanks to tort reform passed back in 2003, it is extremely difficult for loved ones of individuals who have died in the hands of negligent medical practitioners to sue and recover adequate compensation. As of September 2003, the amount one could recover in a medical malpractice...
The family of a Dallas child who died as a result of alleged gross medical negligence is currently in the throes of a legal battle with a children’s medical center which allegedly failed to treat the child in a timely manner. Roberto Llanas Jr....
When most of us go to the hospital for an injury or illness, we expect to be treated in a timely manner and discharged as soon as the doctor says we’re clear to go back to our daily lives. Recently, there have been reports...
You may have heard about claims that vaccines cause autism in children. This has become a popular Internet conspiracy theory and one that does an excellent job of making parents fearful of something that could actually save their child’s life.There have been cases in...
Legitimate doctors are sometimes not the most pleasant people to deal with. They have to maintain what’s called clinical detachment with their patients, which is what allows them to sometimes perform very painful procedures that may be necessary to save your life. They have to...
Every year, medical malpractice costs approximately $3.6 billion in the US, according to Bloomberg. These incidents are not ones where people are looking to get rich the easy way by suing their doctors. There are tens of millions of incidents every single year where someone...
If you’re considering filing a lawsuit for medical malpractice, you’re certainly not alone. According to data from the National Practitioner Data Bank, around 20% of the malpractice payments made every year are from mistakes of all kinds, including issues with monitoring, giving someone the...
If you plan on speaking to an attorney about filing a medical malpractice claim, you should understand some of the basic concepts that define what malpractice is from a legal standpoint. Medical malpractice refers to a situation where a professional – malpractice law also...
It can take a long time for a medical negligence case involving an injured baby to work its way through the courts. Unfortunately, there isn’t much time after one of these incidents occurs to actually file the lawsuit. That means that parents have to...
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