by PPN | Jan 30, 2024 | latest_news, Montana, National, News
$6 million award reduced to $250,000 GREAT FALLS — Sixteen months after a jury awarded Joey Zahara $6 million in his medical malpractice suit against a Great Falls neurosurgeon, Cascade County Judge John Kutzman released a 25-page summation Monday citing his...
by PPN | Dec 21, 2023 | Georgia, Kentucky, National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Intel on Health Care AI As artificial and augmented intelligence (AI) begins to reach physicians’ offices across the U.S., balancing its benefits and limitations requires deeper intel to understand the impacts on patient care and liability. Recently, computer...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2023 | Missouri, National, Newsletter
Missouri Supreme Court examines implications of expanding statute of limitations A pending case in Missouri is putting medical liability in legal limbo, as the state’s Supreme Court is grappling with a crucial decision on the time limits for patients filing...
by PPN | Nov 30, 2023 | latest_news, Missouri, National, News
The Missouri Supreme Court is set to determine whether patients will, in effect, have an indefinite amount of time to file medical liability claims against their physicians. The state has a strict two-year statute of limitations on the time patients have to file a...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | Alabama, California, COVID, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, National, New York, Newsletter, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Washington
Liability reform elevated to presidential debate state Earlier this month, one presidential candidate offered up a tried and true way to improve access to patient care while lowering costs for Americans — through medical liability reform. A Wall Street Journal...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | latest_news, National, News, Ohio
In a court case that is deeply concerning to physicians and hospitals, an Ohio appellate court ruled that the state’s peer-review privilege law didn’t protect a resident physician’s file from discovery in a civil lawsuit. It appears to be the first time an Ohio court...
