by PPN | Aug 28, 2024 | Georgia, latest_news, National, News
ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp has made tort reform the main theme of his annual August address to Georgia political and business leaders two years running. But his Aug. 7 speech at this year’s Georgia Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Congressional Luncheon in...
by PPN | Aug 28, 2024 | latest_news, National, News
Personal Perspective: Naiveté drives the devastation of a malpractice suit. Key points Most healthcare practitioners are startlingly naive about malpractice litigation. Healthcare practitioners benefit from education on the nature and mechanisms of malpractice...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | latest_news, National, News
Background: High reliability in health care requires a balance between intentionally designed systems and individual professional accountability. One element of accountability includes a process for addressing clinicians whose practices are associated with a...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | latest_news, National, New Jersey, News
New Jersey hospitals and health care providers will have a harder time eliminating malpractice suits following a state high court ruling allowing patients to bring complaints without a expert reviewing medical records. A third-party affidavit of merit needed to...
by PPN | Jul 30, 2024 | COVID, Indiana, latest_news, National, News
In April 2020—six weeks after Indiana declared a public health emergency because of COVID-19—an ambulance brought a patient to the hospital with nausea, vomiting and a headache. En route, emergency medical technicians performed a stroke assessment and did not...
by PPN | Jun 27, 2024 | Colorado, latest_news, National, News
Legislation resulted from tense negotiations between lawyers, business groups, insurance industry Coloradans injured by medical malpractice will soon be able to seek more money from insurers and health care providers under new limits signed into law Monday by Gov....