by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Arkansas, Newsletter, Pennsylvania, Texas
Liability reform empowers physicians to avoid defensive medicine While evidence strongly suggests that the potential for liability lawsuits results in treatments and tests that may not be otherwise necessary, new data shows that medical liability reform may be...
by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Arkansas, Texas
In 1987 I had a baby girl in Houston, Texas. She was born a month early, and despite complications, she was delivered at a little over five pounds. We were lucky at that time because we lived in Houston, home of one of the greatest medical centers in the world. But...
by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania doctors could be held liable for harm even in cases where the patient suffered a known complication if the state’s Supreme Court doesn’t overturn a lower court ruling. In a case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Mitchell v. Shikora, justices will...
by PPN | Jun 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Physicians in states that limit the amount juries can award for noneconomic damage in medical malpractice suits conduct fewer invasive tests for suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and referred fewer patients for revascularization than their counterparts in states...