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Insurer lauds drop in malpractice claims (The Advocate)
A decision by the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer to return $10.3 million to policyholders for a second straight year is part of a national movement to lower malpractice rates, according to insurers.
Editorial, Opinion Piece Examine Use Of Defensive Medicine (Medical News Today)
USA Today on Dec. 29, 2008, published an editorial and an opinion piece addressing physicians' use of defensive medicine to prevent medical malpractice lawsuits. Summaries of the pieces appear below.
'Good Samaritan' Defense Fails to Win Dismissal of Med-Mal Suit (Law.com)
A self-described student who was present at the birth of a stillborn child cannot use the "Good Samaritan" defense in her attempt to persuade the court to dismiss a medical malpractice claim against her, a New York state judge has ruled. Supreme Court Justice William R. LaMarca held that there was sufficient evidence to raise a question of fact as to Julia Chachere's "claim of lack of ...
Prominent New York City Personal Injury Law Firm Founded in 1968 Stays at the Cutting Edge with Launch of Video-Based ... (PRWeb)
Smiley & Smiley, LLP, founded in 1968, has successfully represented victims of negligence, personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice for over 40 years. (PRWeb Jan 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Personal_Injury/Law_Firm/prweb1805354.htm
Prominent New York City Personal Injury Law Firm Founded in 1968 Stays at the Cutting Edge with Launch of Video-Based ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Smiley & Smiley, LLP, founded in 1968, has successfully represented victims of negligence, personal injury, wrongful death and medical malpractice for over 40 years.
NEW Retired Richland doctor compiles medical humor (Yakima Herald-Republic)
This feature is under development and will be available soon. * A person walks into a medical library and asks, "Do you have any books on spinal surgery?"
Retired Richland doctor compiles medical humor (Tri-City Herald)
w A person walks into a medical library and asks, "Do you have any books on spinal surgery?"
Compensation ordered in malpractice case (Arab News)
MADINAH: The Directorate of Health in Madinah has ordered two doctors to pay a compensation of SR100,000 for causing the death of a patient while undergoing a surgery in a private hospital in the city recently.
Court Orders California To Implement Program Providing Care To HIV-Positive People (Medical News Today)
A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles late last month ruled that the California Department of Health Care Services must provide medical care to low-income state residents living with HIV in compliance with a 2002 state law, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced, Bloomberg reports (Pettersson, Bloomberg, 12/23/08). The ruling follows a Dec.
Reforming medical malpractice system will cut costs (USA Today)
Reforming medical malpractice system will cut costs Mark Haas, M.D. - Timonium, Md. A USA TODAY article discussed possible solutions to controlling health care costs while providing care to the millions of Americans who lack medical insurance ("Health care up...
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