Some companies specialize in working for insurance companies to put pressure on injured people to pay back money that the insurance company paid for medical bills.
An article in the magazine Nature describes a break-through discovery that the brain is connected to the body’s immune system through tiny lymphatic vessels that no one previously knew existed.
A tiny device the size of a grain of rice will soon be used to deliver cancer drugs to tumors. The hope is that it will help medical providers learn which drugs work best on the tumor so that they may better target therapy.
Confidentiality agreements are commonplace in settlement agreements with doctors and hospitals, in large part to protect the reputation of the defendant. Unfortunately, this can have the negative effect of preventing the public from knowing the mistakes and wrongdoing that resulted in the lawsuit and settlement.
Osteoporosis is not only a woman’s health issue. Men suffer consequences from it less overall, but when they do the consequences are often more severe.
Proposition 46 in California highlights barriers to justice around our county, although luckily not as much in Washington
Pain is sometimes difficult to communicate, in part because we haven’t developed sufficient language to do so.
Medical Malpractice Tort Reformers rely on falsehoods when arguing for barriers to justice for malpractice victims. Caps on damages, in particular, does only harm to those who have suffered as a result of malpractice.
In the early 2000s, in response to a rising call from medical professionals and their organizations, Mississippi enacted significant tort reform, including capping damage awards at $500,000. Now, 10 years later, a fascinating recent article takes a look at the consequences of that change.
Recently, the Florida Supreme Court found, by a 5-2 vote, that caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases violated the Florida equal protection clause.