State Supreme Court Decisions Narrow Pandemic-Related Liability Protections for Providers

by PPN | Aug 29, 2023 | Connecticut, COVID, latest_news, National, News

  A pair of state high court rulings this week put senior living and other long-term care providers on notice that pandemic-related liability protections aren’t a given. The Connecticut Supreme Court issued two opinions on Wednesday that allow negligence claims...

Effect of Lawsuits on Professional Well-Being and Medical Error Rates Among Orthopaedic Surgeons

by PPN | Aug 29, 2023 | latest_news, National, News

  Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 31(16):p 893-900, August 15, 2023. | DOI: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-23-00174 Abstract   Introduction:  Orthopaedic surgery is one of the most cited specialties among legal claims. Malpractice lawsuits are...

How Oregon’s Strict Liability Expansion Threatens Access to Care

by PPN | Aug 29, 2023 | latest_news, National, News, Oregon

  A pregnant woman presented at an Oregon hospital’s emergency department where the anti-nausea medication ondansetron (marketed as Zofran by GSK) was administered, and the hospital billed her. The woman then alleged the Zofran caused her child to be born with...

Medical groups: Liability may limit care for top athletes

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | District of Columbia, latest_news, National, New York, News

    A group of prominent medical organizations says it’s growing concerned about what they consider to be a threat to medical care for top-level athletes: increasing liability risks for doctors as salaries for those athletes rise. The American...

Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | California, Florida, latest_news, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, National, New York, News, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas

  A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal...

New Bill Would Provide Greater Length of Time to Sue Doctors

by PPN | Jun 30, 2023 | Colorado, Florida, latest_news, Maine, National, News, Texas, Vermont, Virginia

A bill in the Maine legislature would have the medical malpractice statute of limitations clock start running when a patient discovers the negligence, which could be years after treatment took place. And other states could follow suit with similar bills. What danger...