Medical Malpractice

• Tips to Prevent Medical Errors

  Jan Boswell | November 11, 2009 9:22 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  This blog is written in response to the blog, 98,000 Reasons to Care about Patient Safety, by Jane Ayre at InjuryBoard.com. This is the number of Americans who die from medical errors each year. As...

• How does the Wound Ostomy and Continent Nurses Society Position Paper on Avoidable versus Unavoidable Pressure Ulcers impact pressure ulcer malpractice cases?

  Jan Boswell | August 11, 2009 12:33 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  A recent position paper by the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society discussed avoidable versus unavoidable pressure ulcers. The paper concluded that there are clinical circumstances in which a...

• Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. according to JAMA Article

  Tedford Taylor | May 24, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Liability reform to stop medical malpractice junk lawsuits, the subject of a Courier-Journal opinion piece, fell on deaf ears last week in light of an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association which reports doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. This flies in the face of the myth that tort...

• Medical Malpractice - Quality Assurance

  Jon Lewis | June 27, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  On Monday, a potential client's wife called about a medical malpractice case. I told her we would need to review the medical records in order to evaluate the case. We discussed this a bit further,...

• Hospital Errors - Is I'm Sorry Enough?

  Jon Lewis | July 27, 2009 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  For years, we have received calls about potential medical malpractice claims. Many times, the potential client is only complaining about poor bedside manner. Had the doctor or nurse simply said, I'm...

• Medical Malpractice - Why do Doctors Worry?

  Jon Lewis | June 26, 2008 9:00 AM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Doctors I meet always discuss the malpractice problem. They seem to worry about lawsuits to an incredible degree. Yet, the statistics show that doctors and hospital win an overwhelming majority of...

• Doctor must Pay $9M for Patient Death

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 1:33 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  A Miami-Dade Circuit Court jury has held a Miami Doctor liable for $9 million dollars in damages in the death of a patient. The case involves Dr. Carmel Barrau. Jessie Sturdivant was his patient in 1999. On Thursday, Jay Cohen, of the Miami firm of Grossman and Roth won the judgment on behalf of Sturdivant's wife. The attorney said his next step is to file a bad faith claim against Barrau's...