The New York State Bar Association took a strong stand against tort reform last Friday. President Michael Getnick issued a statement calling on the U.S. Senate to reject calls for caps on pain and…
We’ve all heard the claims. Jackpot payouts in medical malpractice cases have caused malpractice insurance premiums to go so high that doctors are leaving certain specialties or leaving the…
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff announced today that the state has settled a 4-year-long battle with Eli Lilly over its marketing unapproved uses, so-called off-label uses, of its…
A story in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution discusses a plan by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia to enforce a loser pays system in medical negligence…
Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. is a brave man. In an article he has penned for the online magazine Salon, Dr. Parikh takes on his colleagues, peers and the American Medical Association and challenges the…
So-called caps on non-economic damages have been making a lot of news these days as part of the health care reform debate. The idea is to limit non-economic damages–or damages for pain and…
Medical care providers are people and people make mistakes – that’s it, plain and simple, and the facts can’t be disputed. An editorial which appeared this week in the Salt Lake Tribune offers the…
A 14-year-old boy suffered traumatic head injuries yesterday in Lindon, when he ran into a wall while riding his bike with his sister. He was not wearing a helmet. Juan De Dios Rojas was on a family…
We’ve heard a lot about doctors practicing defensive medicine in an effort to avoid frivolous lawsuits. Of course, there is no evidence to suggest that so-called defensive medicine actually exists,…
A federal judge in Little Rock, Arkansas has ordered drugmaker Wyeth to turn over thousands of pages indicating that it paid ghostwriters to author and place studies about one of its profitable…
Dr. Warren Stack, the so-called ‘Candy Man,’ is off to prison to serve the eight year sentence Judge Tena Campbell handed down in federal court in Salt Lake City. The charges against Stack stem from…
A new report has shown the cost of medical malpractice lawsuits is insignificant to the total cost of health care. As detailed in the report, the total share of malpractice costs was less than 1% of…
