Archive for the 'Malpractice lawsuit' Category
Wednesday 8 October 2008 @ 3:55 pm
A Dauphin County jury awarded more than a million dollars to a breast cancer patient in a malpractice suit.
Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 2:02 am
Evelyn McKnights nightmare began in 2002. Thats when the local audiologist learned she was among 99 people infected...
Tuesday 7 October 2008 @ 1:03 am
The widow of a 23-year-old soldier who killed himself about three years after returning from combat in Iraq claims in a federal lawsuit that Lebanon Veterans Administration Center staff are to blame for his death.
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 11:45 pm
The rush is on for some East Tennessee attorneys. A change in state law, aimed at cutting back on frivolous lawsuits, has nearly half a year's worth of medical malpractice suits filed in just two days.
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 10:44 pm
SAN FRANCISCO ---- A federal judge scolded California officials on Monday for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system.
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 4:29 pm
A survey of pediatricians found wide variation in whether and how they would disclose medical errors to patients and their families, and may be less likely to share information about errors that are less obvious to parents, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 1:17 pm
The Supreme Court during the 2008-2009 term, which begins on Monday, will hear cases "testing the boundary between federal and state authority," such as a case that could determine whether "injured people can bring claims against allegedly defective drugs and other products to state courts," USA Today reports. The court likely will hear the case, Wyeth v. Levine, on Nov.
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Evelyn McKnights nightmare began in 2002. Thats when the local audiologist learned she was among 99 people infected...
Monday 6 October 2008 @ 5:08 am
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Monday 6 October 2008 @ 3:09 am
Online databases give patients greater access to physicians' medical training, professional credentials and legal track records Cindy Bucholz usually pores over a doctor's background when making an appointment, but she forgot to do the homework before seeing a new ear specialist last year.



