On February 20, Gov. Gregoire announced an agreement regarding medical malpractice lawsuits. First, the proposed law will enable doctors to apologize for a medical mistake without the apology being used against them in a lawsuit. Second, the proposed law would impose mandatory mediation before the lawsuit proceeded, and both sides could select binding arbitration. Third, the law would allow...
A Toyota pickup driving westbound on Highway 970 near Cle Elum crossed the center line and collided with an oncoming van. The driver of the pickup was killed and his daughter was taken to Harborview Medical Center. The driver of the van and his wife were also killed in the accident. Their two children were injured and taken to Harborview Medical Center. Authorities are investigating the...
Loan originators for First Horizon Home Loan Corp. have filed suit against the company claiming they were illegally denied overtime pay.Follow a series of similar lawsuits agianst Bank of Blue Valley in Overland Park, Kansas, recently settled for over $1 million, National Bank of Kansas and Principal Residential Mortgage, the First Horizon suit is one of the largest of its kind. Close to 6,000...
A recent report confirms - Medical Malpractice Insurance 'Crisis' Is Over. Why then the continued cries to the contrary. Why are politicians trying to win votes with lies, and all the while taking your rights away. This kind of stuff makes you mad when you have to talk to people every day who have been injured by stupid doctors. Most physicians are excellent, but the bad ones are getting away...
All the recent attorney advertising has generated a lot of calls. It appears the most common complaint was excessive bleeding and, more often than you would guess, unwanted pregnancy. We will still continue to take cases where blod clots resulted in medical treatment, because that is very serious. I hope the FDA will look at these other problems.
Five organizations fighting to reduce trucker fatigue accidents have filed a petition against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed 2005 hours-of-service rule. The U.S. Court Of Appeals struck down a similar rule in 2004, chastising the agency for permitting dramatic increases in driving time. Truckers' driving hours have increased 40% in the last few years, each day and...
The Institute for Health Care Improvement reports that deaths from medical errors are estimated at between 98,000 and 195,000 ever year.According to Dr. Georges Benjamin, many of these errors result from a failure to consistently adopt procedures in hospitals that save lives, such as raising the beds for patients on ventilators to reduce the potential of pneumonia, or to concentrate on sterile...
On February 16, a Geo Prizm crossed the median on I-5 and collided head on with an oncoming car. The driver and passenger in the Geo were taken to Harborview Medical Center. The passenger, a 21-year-old, died from his injuries. The other driver died at the scene. Authorities found an open contained of alcohol by the driver of the Geo and suspect alcohol played a role in the accident.Any...
Newly released documents demonstrate turmoil inside Guidant Corporation while its heart devices came under scrutiny last year. The records include e-mail messages, transcripts, memos and notes. While Guidant's public message was upbeat and positive, the company's executives and sales representatives were alarmed about the scrutiny of defects in its defibrillators and pacemakers, and the company...
Kevin MD posts a short article that raises some questions about the reporting of possible child abuse. I do not have the ability to judge the limited facts presented, but both the reporter and the alleged abusers have rights. And, most importantly, the rights of any abused child should trump them all. Frivolous? An interesting case where parents are suing a doctor for a Munchausen syndrome by...
