The medical malpractice crisis of the last few years has tapped a lot of scholarly energy. These experiences have led researchers to think a lot about the amount and quality of information circulating within or concerning the medical malpractice system, and about public policy reforms that would improve information flow in the future. Relational uses of information fall under two rubrics based on their respective goals: to enhance competition among providers, or to make it more likely that expert advisers will honor their responsibilities to the people they undertake to serve. Regulatory, as opposed to relational, uses of information contemplate the government acting in the interest of society as a whole or a broad subset of the citizenry. Sound information policy requires thinking more...
A Kingsville family received a rare seven-figure plaintiff's verdict in their lawsuit against a Clinton doctor for medical malpractice. On Tuesday, a Jackson County jury awarded $1 million to Alex and Megan Johnmeyer for the birth defects suffered by their daughter, Alexis.
Medical malpractice lawyer Paul T. Farrell Jr., recalled a recent case he handled in West Virginia in which a doctor accidentally removed a boy's colon instead of his spleen. The boy had a genetic disorder that was causing the spleen to limit his body's red blood cell production, Farrell said. After his colon was mistakenly removed, surgeons had to attach the boy's large intestine to his rectal stub.
For the second time in less than six months, the Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether lawmakers had the power to restrict the damages available to plaintiffs who sue doctors. The court heard arguments March 27 in a case that will determine the constitutionality of a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. The Missouri Legislature enacted the cap in 2005 as part of a sweeping change to the state's tort laws.
AUBURN -- A jury awarded a 10-year-old severely disabled girl more than $3 million Thursday in a medical malpractice case involving a midwife who helped in the girl's delivery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. The Androscoggin County Superior Court jury deliberated for roughly four hours Wednesday and two hours Thursday before reaching a split verdict.
A circuit court judge filling in on the state Supreme Court justice has blasted the high court's ruling last month to uphold a law that caps jury awards on medical malpractice cases. Brooke Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson, who was appointed as a visiting justice to hear the case, lambasted the decision in a 12- page dissenting opinion released Friday afternoon.
Twenty-five years ago, doctors in New York found themselves in a pricing storm and decided to take things into their own hands by starting Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers (PRI). PRI was established as a doctor-owned, doctor-operated reciprocal insurance company that was licensed in New York. Over the years, PRI has been successfully writing medical malpractice throughout New York. Currently, PRI has about 40% of the New York market and, in addition to being the second largest medical malpractice writer in the state, they are in the top 10 nationwide. Over the past 25 years, PRI has remained true to its organizers' vision: providing a stable market for New York doctors to obtain medical malpractice coverage. PRI realized it could not be an insurance company that was all things to all peo...
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