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Pushback growing against North Carolina’s COVID liability law
SOURCE: WHQR North Carolina enacted a law early in the coronavirus pandemic that gave medical providers near-absolute immunity from civil liability. Now, the nation's largest for-profit health care system could use that law to quash a medical malpractice claim...
A shortage of OB-GYNs looms. Why are they fleeing N.J.?
SOURCE: NJ.com The young doctor wanted to build her career in New Jersey. Dr. Matilde Hoffman finished her residency at Livingston’s Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in June, and the OB-GYN generalist searched for jobs in the Garden State. She wanted to stay close...
How a Downturn Could Impact Civil Jury Awards
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...
COVID Lawsuits Have Arrived: Which Doctors Are at Risk?
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...
Criminalizing Adverse Medical Outcomes Does More Harm Than Good
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...
Medical society leaders: NY’s new liability law threatens access to care
SOURCE: Syracuse.com To the Editor: Two and a half years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, medical professionals in New York are faced with the possibility of another crisis — this time not from any disease, but from legislation under consideration in Albany...
New Mexico’s self-inflicted doctor shortage
SOURCE: KWRG There is a life-or-death issue facing New Mexicans. It has been widely reported on in the media and is important to New Mexicans from all walks of life. Voters will have a lot to say about it this November. The issue is our shortage of medical...
Major shift in medical malpractice rules in Pa. could help victims, but opponents fear the cost
SOURCE: GoErie.com Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday took the controversial step of reversing a two-decade-old rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors leaving the state because of high medical malpractice insurance costs. In a highly-anticipated order,...
NC Supreme Court rules nurses can be held legally liable for medical mistakes
SOURCE: Queen City News The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled nurses can face legal charges for medical injuries, striking down a 90-year-old precedent. In 2010, Amaya Gullate was three years old. Medical professionals at Carolinas Medical Center, now Atrium...
New York: Second Worst Place for Doctors
SOURCE: Oswego County Business New York at ‘a competitive disadvantage in competing for the next generation of physicians’ Personal finance site WalletHub recently released its annual report on “Best & Worst States for Doctors.” The report uses 19 key metrics to...