Posted on: Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
When the same doctor keeps making mistakes, he needs to be stopped. If that same doctor moves to another state and gets protected by state laws, patients are at great risk. Sometimes a doctor that keeps making medical errors gets his name in the paper. At least this one particular doctor certainly did, and while he is not necessarily representational of all doctors, he does serve as a bellwether for patients and other doctors. Many doctors do a fine job under difficult and often trying circumstances. But unfortunately is just takes one bad doctor to affect patient lives. Dr. Stefan [...]
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Posted on: Friday, October 14th, 2011
Tort reform and especially caps to medical malpractice damages is a hot button topic. No one seems to get the premise behind penalizing patients twice for medical negligence. It is public knowledge that medical negligence in the USA (and other countries) is, quite frankly, rampant. Recent statistics show that medical mistakes happen in one third of hospital admissions, and it will get worse as the population grows, the health care system gets overtaxed, the number of doctors dwindles and the pressure cooker that medical professionals work in continues to get more stressful. What is completely incomprehensible is the fact that [...]
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Posted on: Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
When unspeakable tragedy hits close to home, medical malpractice caps are a brutal reminder that justice is sworn to protect the innocent, but does not always do so. This is a really hard story to read about, and many others may have had something similar happen to them. The story involves a young boy, full of promise for the future and happy. This boy could figure out just about anything for himself, even at the age of three years old. Then one day, the unexpected happened, and the little boy fell face first onto a sharp stick that drove itself [...]
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Posted on: Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
There is a time to have surgery and a time when it is best to avoid it. Statistics show that July is a bad month for surgical malpractice deaths. According to The Journal of General Internal Medicine, there is a hike of up to 10 percent of fatalities during that summer month. Why would that be? Turns out that is when new doctors-to-be, also known residents, are starting their training. The definitely should make patients pause about when to schedule surgery. To be fair, the figures are not exclusively pointing at surgery as being the main cause of deaths during [...]
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Posted on: Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
This case involves a man who was killed in a bicycle accident. This wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of the father of two by his family. “This reported wrongful death lawsuit settled for $1.5 million. The man, a molecular research scientist at a university, was killed by a van as he was riding his bike to work in February 2009. The van’s driver worked for a refrigeration and HVAC company. The van driver suddenly made an illegal U-turn, right in front of the man on the bike, and with nowhere else to go, the cyclist hit the side [...]
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Posted on: Monday, August 15th, 2011
This case was as shocking as it was distressing for all those involved. A two-year-old toddler died of severe burns from her bath water, only to have her stomach pierced at the hospital. “There are some cases that just sear your heart and you have a hard time reading about them. This case is one of those that really leave an impression behind, and a sense of sadness for the family. The father in this case filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the maker of a water heater and a doctor that treated his 2-year-old daughter,” said Christopher Mellino. Mellino [...]
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Posted on: Monday, August 8th, 2011
Despite the rage to cap medical malpractice damages, there are cases that return higher awards. This case is one of them. This reported case happened in Norwalk and the jury handed down a $58.6 million award. The case involved an obstetrician who waited too long to do a C-section. The end result was a severely and permanently brain damaged baby, who is now 8 years old and must be fed through a tube, cannot walk or talk, lives life in a wheelchair and is incontinent. The day the baby boy was born, he was non-responsive, blue and limp. He had [...]
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Posted on: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Not all medical malpractice cases go to court. However, that option remains should settlement negotiations be a wash out. “When dealing with birth injuries, such as Erb’s palsy, the usual cause of this affliction is improper treatment by the doctor. That might include his or her failure to understand a C-section needs to be done because of the baby’s size, not delivering the baby properly in shoulder dystocia cases and/or using too much pressure on the baby’s head or shoulder during delivery,” said Christopher Mellino. Mellino is a Cleveland medical malpractice lawyer and wrongful death lawyer of the Mellino Law [...]
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Posted on: Saturday, July 30th, 2011
It looks very much like H.R. 5 may go up in smoke. This is something that warms the heart of many dedicated medical malpractice lawyers who have their client’s rights in mind. Just a quick recap will bring you up to speed on this proposed Act. H.R. 5 was designed to pre-empt most medical care lawsuit across the nation. The uproar over this was stunning, but rightfully so, as that act would breach the right of the individual states. But more than that, it would attack the most vulnerable – the victims of medical malpractice or medical negligence. There is [...]
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Posted on: Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Tort reform is an ugly duckling that harbors the potential to severely harm victims of medical malpractice, by limiting the amount of money they may recover from injury lawsuits. This hot button issue is making the rounds all across the nation. States wanting to reduce the dollar amount of liability to plaintiffs in cases of medical malpractice. In other words, promoting or passing legislation that protects doctors from being fully accountable for their mistakes. Imagine if you will a totally disabled woman, confined to a wheelchair as the result of back surgery gone wrong, when her surgeon made a mistake [...]
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