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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...
Lawmakers need to fix malpractice bill in ’23 session
SOURCE: Albuquerque Journal House Bill 75 was passed in New Mexico’s 2021 legislative session and became effective Jan. 1, with the stated purpose “to Clarify and Modernize the New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act, to raise liability caps and limit participation by...
America’s physicians today practice ‘defensive medicine’
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...
The Role Of Clinical Waste In Excess US Health Spending
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...
Why more frivolous medical liability lawsuits are possible in Michigan
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...
Long COVID leaves health care providers vulnerable to liability risks
SOURCE: Business Insurance Long COVID, with its varying and unpredictable symptoms and no known cure, leaves health care providers vulnerable to liability risks stemming from misdiagnoses, medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Co. said in a report released Tuesday....
Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation
SOURCE: NPR RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee nurse convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error, whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be required to spend any time in prison. Davidson...
Why medical liability expert witness must practice same subspecialty
SOURCE: American Medical Association It would be odd for a court to let a pediatric oncologist and a pediatric rheumatologist testify against a pediatric neonatologist simply because they all share an umbrella board certification in pediatrics. Although the three...