by PPN | Oct 31, 2022 | National, News
SOURCE: Bloomberg Law It’s likely that current economic conditions will impact how juries determine damage awards in civil cases, say Cozen O’Connor attorneys Daniel Brobst and Benjamin Wilkoff. They explain how inflation, recession, and previous downturns could...
by PPN | Oct 31, 2022 | COVID, National, News
SOURCE: Medscape A pregnant patient who had COVID-19 showed up at a hospital with respiratory difficulty caused by her illness. Physicians had to perform an emergency delivery of her near-term baby. The infant survived, but the woman lost oxygen during the ordeal and...
by PPN | Oct 31, 2022 | National, News
SOURCE: Medical Professional Liability Association By Stuart L. Weinstein, MD As a practicing orthopaedic surgeon for more than 40 years, I’ve seen how the threat of medical liability lawsuits impacts physicians and the practice of medicine. The progressive...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | Iowa, Kansas, National, Newsletter
Defensive medicine brings inflation to health care costs As inflation touches on every aspect of consumer prices, health care costs have been continually increasing due to the practice of defensive medicine — and could go up even higher from here. An opinion piece in...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | National, News
SOURCE: Health Affairs For decades, the level and growth of US health care spending has diverged from both international and domestic norms, leading many to characterize rising health expenditures as “unsustainable.” Between 1970 and 2019, total US health spending...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | Michigan, National, News
SOURCE: AMA If a plaintiff in Michigan files a medical liability lawsuit, they must, with few exceptions, file the affidavit of merit within the statute of limitations or have the lawsuit dismissed with prejudice, physicians tell the Michigan Supreme Court. Plaintiffs...
