June 25, 2011
By:Lee J. Johnson, JD
What do you do if you realize that your records actually may do harm to a patient's lawsuit?
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December 17, 2010
By:Lee J. Johnson, JD
To settle or not to settle? Read the article to determine how to discern the best choice.
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March 19, 2010
By:Morgan Lewis Jr.
Barry Lang, MD, JD, a medical malpractice plaintiff's attorney and orthopedic surgeon, admits that doctors have the advantage in most medical malpractice lawsuit trials.
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November 20, 2009
By:Gail Garfinkel Weiss
In the past decade, there was a sharp increase in medical liability premiums, but recently, malpractice insurance has started to level off, indicating a potential new trend.
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September 18, 2009
By:Steven I. Kern, JD
Efforts to thwart the increasing costs of healthcare cannot succeed without addressing the question of how much care to provide the terminally ill.
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August 21, 2009
By:Samuel R. Bierstock, MD
There is a middle road wherein standards and expectations of how to practice in a whole new world of real-time data can be established, and it must be addressed so that those who use EHR systems can do their jobs without apprehension and fear.
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May 22, 2009
By:Lee J. Johnson, JD
An arbitration agreement signed before the patient seeks or starts treatment is more likely to be upheld than one signed just before treatment.
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May 8, 2009
By:S. Allan Adelman, JD
The loss-of-chance doctrine provides that even if a patient had less than a 50-50 chance of a full recovery at the time of a physician's negligent act, it is a compensable injury if that negligence deprived the patient of any chance of recovery.
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March 2, 2009
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed February 19 the grant of summary judgment in favor of a physician who alleged the medical malpractice action against him was time-barred under the two-year statute of limitations.
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