The Medical Malpractice Attorneys at CMG Law are regular contributors to Trial News, the monthly publication of the Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ). These articles support all medical malpractice attorneys in Washington and their clients with useful information about litigating such claims.
In addition, Tyler Goldberg-Hoss, Gene Moen, and Carl-Erich Kruse have each served as chair or co-chair of the WSAJ Medical Negligence Section. And in 2016, Tyler served as editor of the first Medical Negligence Deskbook, published in 2016.
Sometimes it feels like anything that can go wrong does. That certainly felt the case for our unfortunate client who suffered a tragic string of errors during her treatment and in litigation.
Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) can lead to permanent vision impairment if not promptly treated with high-dose steroids. GCA can also result in medical negligence claims because the outcome – sometimes total bilateral blindness – is so devastating.
It is not uncommon that victims of medical negligence cannot prove a crucial element of their case – causation – precisely because of the negligence of the health care provider.
There are dozens of Urgent/Immediate/Express/Convenient Care Clinics in Washington State. Such clinics attempt to fill a perceived gap in healthcare, available for folks who have healthcare needs that don’t rise to the level (in both time and cost) of an emergency room visit, or when it is inconvenient (or impossible) to see their primary care doctor (if they have one).
New "Sepsis-3" Guidelines are intended to improve definitions used in the diagnosis of sepsis. However, such changes have the potential to complicate the jobs of health care providers, and complicate a plaintiff attorney’s ability to bring a case alleging a failure to diagnose and/or treat sepsis.
It was a very busy year for the Medical Negligence Section, primarily due to the completion of the Washington Medical Negligence Deskbook. What started as
