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| In The News 2010 |
- 12/16/10 - Ark. Doctor, clinic
cleared in malpractice lawsuit -
article
- 12/13/10 - Jury rules for
couple in Kadlec lawsuit -
article
- 12/10/10 - Arguments rejected
in malpractice case - article
- 12/10/10 - Senate passes
1-year fix to avert Medicare
payment cuts to doctors - article
- 12/3/10 - Surgeon-physician
marriages are a recipe for
disaster - article
- 11/8/10 - Doctors versus
nurses in anesthesia 'turf war' -
article
- 11/8/10 - When the doctor has
a boss - article
- 11/1/10 - Med-mal release
may not protect ER doctors,
rules Nebraska Supreme Court
-article
- 10/26/10 - Doctors oppose a
nursing push - article
- 10/22/10 - Medical
malpractice claims frequency
declining, severity stabilizing,
according to Zurich report -
article
- 10/21/10 - KC attorney nets
$20 million verdict for brain
surgery error - article
- 10/21/10 - Big US study
shows surgery checklist saves
lives - article
- 10/15/10 - local surgeon wins
civil suit - article
- 10/6/10 - Florida saw 10 MPLI
carriers, lower rates in 2009 -
article
- 10/4/10 - Diagnostic errors
greatest treat to patient safety
in hospitals - article
- 10/4/10 - Brain Injury renews
focus on Seattle Children's
-article
- 10/1/10 - Med-mal small
percentage of health care costs
- article
- 9/30/10 - What the doctor
missed - article
- 9/30/10 - Court overturns Hot
Springs malpractice verdict -
article
- 9/30/10 - Ark. couple get $20M
in suit over surgery - article
- 9/27/10 - NH panel mulls rule
changes to malpractice fund -
article
- 9/9/10 - Nursing home settles
$677M lawsuit for $50M - article
- 9/8/10 - Lawsuit risks can
spark more testing - article
- 9/7/10 - Nursing home
operator ordered to pay $43.5M
in wrongful death lawsuit -
article
- 9/2/10 - Study shines light on
malpractice causes - article
- 9/2/10 - Even with insurance,
risk of being sued leads to
extra tests that may cost
billions - article
- 8/30/10 - Medical errors cost
hospitals billions - article
- 8/19/10 - A study into
malpractice payouts finds that
county's cost to settle cases
grew more than $8M in 2005 to
more than $12M in 2007 -
article
- 8/17/10 - Payouts from
medical suits up 50 percent -
article
- 8/17/10 - Reform of primary
care could reduce diagnostic
errors - article
- 8/17/10 - U-M's efforts to
encourage full disclosure of
medical errors decreased
claims and costs, study says -
article
- 8/10/10 - Doctor's diagnosis:
Get it right - article
- 7/30/10 - Michigan Supreme
Court rules med-mal plaintiff's
doctors may be interviewed -
article
- 7/27/10 - Physician-patient
privilege stands in civil lawsuit,
says Missouri Supreme Court
-article
- 7/26/10 - Man falls off surgical
table; St. Joseph's Hospital
sued when strap holding a 300
pound, 61 year old St. Paul
man to a surgical table failed -
article
- 7/26/10 - Stress can motivate
doctors to switch careers -
article
- 7/20/10 - Pattern: A thin white
line among doctors? - article
- 7/20/10 - Court strikes down
raid on malpractice fund - article
- 7/19/10 - Burnout hurts
doctors as well as their
patients - article
- 7/14/10 - Woman claims
hospital left instrument in her
during surgery - article
- 7/12/10 - Better teamwork
when doctors discuss cases -
article
- 7/1/10 - Wash court tosses
90-day warning for malpractice
- article
- 6/23/10 - Plan eases new
doctors hours to cut errors -
article
- 6/21/10 - ER doctors: lawsuit
fears lead to overtesting - article
- 6/13/10 - doctors faces 21
percent cut in Medicare
payments - article
- 6/1/10 - Jury awards mother
and son $23.3 million:
Physician plans "vigorous
appeal" - article
- 5/24/10 - Insurance holders
sue board over surplus:
Malpractice fund was eyed for
budget (NH) - article
- 5/17/10 - Smaller Risk
Retention Groups in medical
segment face M&A question -
article
- 5/14/10 - Despite premium
decreases, medical
professional liability industry
profitable in 2009 - article
- 5/14/10 - New generation of
physicians choosing hospitals
over private practice - article
- 5/11/10 - Medical
Professional Liability Issues to
fuel discussion at PIAA
conference - article
- 5/10/10 - Electronic medical
orders may save lives -article
- 5/10/10 - Woman awarded
$36M malpractice verdict -
article
- 5/4/10 - Malpractice suits
push two lawyers to the top -
article
- 4/27/10 - Tort debate lives on:
Role in heath care costs
disputed - article
- 4/27/10 - Doctor fought back
by filling lawsuit - article
- 4/23/10 - Doctors work to
reduce costly patient no-shows
- article
- 4/19/10 - doctor sentenced to
5.5 months for fake botox -
article
- 4/19/10 - Fewer medical
errors, fewer lawsuits - article
- 4/15/10 - $53.2M payout:
Woman's mom bled to death in
nursing home - article
- 4/14/10 - Doctor removes
wrong fetus, loses license -
article
- 4/14/10 - Malpractice worries
help drive health costs - article
- 4/9/10 - Cap to reduce $2.5M
award in VA malpractice case -
article
- 4/9/10 - High court hears
argument on future of
malpractice claims - article
- 3/29/10 - New Law Deals
Setback to Malpractice Foes -
article
- 3/29/10 - Parents can't sue
under Washington Law -article
- 3/24/10 - Mo. high court
narrows medical malpractice
limits - article
- 3/23/10 - Ga. Supreme Court
declares caps on damage
awards to be unconstitutional -
article
- 3/17/10 - Texas Supreme
Court rules that patients can't
sue for medical errors after 10
year limit - article
-3/15/10 - Record malpractice
judgement awarded in Franklin
case - article
- 3/12/10 - Encouraging doctors
to report mistakes - article
- 3/10/10 - NH court refuses to
reconsider $110M ruling -
article
- 3/9/10 - 11th Circuit rules
Med-mal claim is time-barred-
article
- 3/8/10 - Malpractice caps
appear likely in Utah - article
- 3/3/10 - To settle or not settle -
article
- 3/3/10 - Doctors cut back
hours when risk of malpractice
suit rises, study shows - article
- 3/1/10 - Article looks at
medical malpractice insurers'
prospects for 2010 - article
- 2/26/10 - Obama open to
curbing medical malpractice
suits - article
- 2/25/10 - 18% cost increase
with Illinois Medical Liability
Cap Struck - article
- 2/19/10 - Once more, MI high
court split 4-3 on malpractice-
article
- 2/17/10 - Malpractice bill held
up in house: It would restore
cap for doctors - article
- 2/16/10 - Illinois supreme
court strikes down caps on
noneconomic damages - article
- 2/15/10 - 5% of doctors are
responsible for 50% of
malpractice claims - article
- 2/12/10 - Utah
legislature:$250K malpractice
cap being debated - article
- 2/11/10 - Congressman:
Medical liability insurers could
be spared in antitrust repeal
bill - article
- 2/10/10 - Post tort-reform shirt
takes hold in Texas market -
article
- 2/9/10 - Antitrust exemption
repeal would likely increase
medical liability premiums,
limit competition - article
- 2/8/10 - Malpractice data
credited to Ohio's cap on
damages - article
- 2/4/10 - SC lawmakers to
discuss new lawsuit limits -
article
- 2/3/10 - Ohio: Average payout
per medical professional
liability claim is $252.5K - article
- 2/1/10 - Malpractice risk
affects doctors' hours - article
- 1/21/10 - Wis. Senate votes to
expand malpractice claims -
article
cleared in malpractice lawsuit -
article
- 12/13/10 - Jury rules for
couple in Kadlec lawsuit -
article
- 12/10/10 - Arguments rejected
in malpractice case - article
- 12/10/10 - Senate passes
1-year fix to avert Medicare
payment cuts to doctors - article
- 12/3/10 - Surgeon-physician
marriages are a recipe for
disaster - article
- 11/8/10 - Doctors versus
nurses in anesthesia 'turf war' -
article
- 11/8/10 - When the doctor has
a boss - article
- 11/1/10 - Med-mal release
may not protect ER doctors,
rules Nebraska Supreme Court
-article
- 10/26/10 - Doctors oppose a
nursing push - article
- 10/22/10 - Medical
malpractice claims frequency
declining, severity stabilizing,
according to Zurich report -
article
- 10/21/10 - KC attorney nets
$20 million verdict for brain
surgery error - article
- 10/21/10 - Big US study
shows surgery checklist saves
lives - article
- 10/15/10 - local surgeon wins
civil suit - article
- 10/6/10 - Florida saw 10 MPLI
carriers, lower rates in 2009 -
article
- 10/4/10 - Diagnostic errors
greatest treat to patient safety
in hospitals - article
- 10/4/10 - Brain Injury renews
focus on Seattle Children's
-article
- 10/1/10 - Med-mal small
percentage of health care costs
- article
- 9/30/10 - What the doctor
missed - article
- 9/30/10 - Court overturns Hot
Springs malpractice verdict -
article
- 9/30/10 - Ark. couple get $20M
in suit over surgery - article
- 9/27/10 - NH panel mulls rule
changes to malpractice fund -
article
- 9/9/10 - Nursing home settles
$677M lawsuit for $50M - article
- 9/8/10 - Lawsuit risks can
spark more testing - article
- 9/7/10 - Nursing home
operator ordered to pay $43.5M
in wrongful death lawsuit -
article
- 9/2/10 - Study shines light on
malpractice causes - article
- 9/2/10 - Even with insurance,
risk of being sued leads to
extra tests that may cost
billions - article
- 8/30/10 - Medical errors cost
hospitals billions - article
- 8/19/10 - A study into
malpractice payouts finds that
county's cost to settle cases
grew more than $8M in 2005 to
more than $12M in 2007 -
article
- 8/17/10 - Payouts from
medical suits up 50 percent -
article
- 8/17/10 - Reform of primary
care could reduce diagnostic
errors - article
- 8/17/10 - U-M's efforts to
encourage full disclosure of
medical errors decreased
claims and costs, study says -
article
- 8/10/10 - Doctor's diagnosis:
Get it right - article
- 7/30/10 - Michigan Supreme
Court rules med-mal plaintiff's
doctors may be interviewed -
article
- 7/27/10 - Physician-patient
privilege stands in civil lawsuit,
says Missouri Supreme Court
-article
- 7/26/10 - Man falls off surgical
table; St. Joseph's Hospital
sued when strap holding a 300
pound, 61 year old St. Paul
man to a surgical table failed -
article
- 7/26/10 - Stress can motivate
doctors to switch careers -
article
- 7/20/10 - Pattern: A thin white
line among doctors? - article
- 7/20/10 - Court strikes down
raid on malpractice fund - article
- 7/19/10 - Burnout hurts
doctors as well as their
patients - article
- 7/14/10 - Woman claims
hospital left instrument in her
during surgery - article
- 7/12/10 - Better teamwork
when doctors discuss cases -
article
- 7/1/10 - Wash court tosses
90-day warning for malpractice
- article
- 6/23/10 - Plan eases new
doctors hours to cut errors -
article
- 6/21/10 - ER doctors: lawsuit
fears lead to overtesting - article
- 6/13/10 - doctors faces 21
percent cut in Medicare
payments - article
- 6/1/10 - Jury awards mother
and son $23.3 million:
Physician plans "vigorous
appeal" - article
- 5/24/10 - Insurance holders
sue board over surplus:
Malpractice fund was eyed for
budget (NH) - article
- 5/17/10 - Smaller Risk
Retention Groups in medical
segment face M&A question -
article
- 5/14/10 - Despite premium
decreases, medical
professional liability industry
profitable in 2009 - article
- 5/14/10 - New generation of
physicians choosing hospitals
over private practice - article
- 5/11/10 - Medical
Professional Liability Issues to
fuel discussion at PIAA
conference - article
- 5/10/10 - Electronic medical
orders may save lives -article
- 5/10/10 - Woman awarded
$36M malpractice verdict -
article
- 5/4/10 - Malpractice suits
push two lawyers to the top -
article
- 4/27/10 - Tort debate lives on:
Role in heath care costs
disputed - article
- 4/27/10 - Doctor fought back
by filling lawsuit - article
- 4/23/10 - Doctors work to
reduce costly patient no-shows
- article
- 4/19/10 - doctor sentenced to
5.5 months for fake botox -
article
- 4/19/10 - Fewer medical
errors, fewer lawsuits - article
- 4/15/10 - $53.2M payout:
Woman's mom bled to death in
nursing home - article
- 4/14/10 - Doctor removes
wrong fetus, loses license -
article
- 4/14/10 - Malpractice worries
help drive health costs - article
- 4/9/10 - Cap to reduce $2.5M
award in VA malpractice case -
article
- 4/9/10 - High court hears
argument on future of
malpractice claims - article
- 3/29/10 - New Law Deals
Setback to Malpractice Foes -
article
- 3/29/10 - Parents can't sue
under Washington Law -article
- 3/24/10 - Mo. high court
narrows medical malpractice
limits - article
- 3/23/10 - Ga. Supreme Court
declares caps on damage
awards to be unconstitutional -
article
- 3/17/10 - Texas Supreme
Court rules that patients can't
sue for medical errors after 10
year limit - article
-3/15/10 - Record malpractice
judgement awarded in Franklin
case - article
- 3/12/10 - Encouraging doctors
to report mistakes - article
- 3/10/10 - NH court refuses to
reconsider $110M ruling -
article
- 3/9/10 - 11th Circuit rules
Med-mal claim is time-barred-
article
- 3/8/10 - Malpractice caps
appear likely in Utah - article
- 3/3/10 - To settle or not settle -
article
- 3/3/10 - Doctors cut back
hours when risk of malpractice
suit rises, study shows - article
- 3/1/10 - Article looks at
medical malpractice insurers'
prospects for 2010 - article
- 2/26/10 - Obama open to
curbing medical malpractice
suits - article
- 2/25/10 - 18% cost increase
with Illinois Medical Liability
Cap Struck - article
- 2/19/10 - Once more, MI high
court split 4-3 on malpractice-
article
- 2/17/10 - Malpractice bill held
up in house: It would restore
cap for doctors - article
- 2/16/10 - Illinois supreme
court strikes down caps on
noneconomic damages - article
- 2/15/10 - 5% of doctors are
responsible for 50% of
malpractice claims - article
- 2/12/10 - Utah
legislature:$250K malpractice
cap being debated - article
- 2/11/10 - Congressman:
Medical liability insurers could
be spared in antitrust repeal
bill - article
- 2/10/10 - Post tort-reform shirt
takes hold in Texas market -
article
- 2/9/10 - Antitrust exemption
repeal would likely increase
medical liability premiums,
limit competition - article
- 2/8/10 - Malpractice data
credited to Ohio's cap on
damages - article
- 2/4/10 - SC lawmakers to
discuss new lawsuit limits -
article
- 2/3/10 - Ohio: Average payout
per medical professional
liability claim is $252.5K - article
- 2/1/10 - Malpractice risk
affects doctors' hours - article
- 1/21/10 - Wis. Senate votes to
expand malpractice claims -
article
- 11/15/10 - NJ abortion doctor
temporarily suspended - article
- 9/10/10 - Malpractice costs
top $55 billion a year in U.S.,
Harvard study says - article
- 9/2/10 - Women's study:
Pre-emptive surgery reduces
cancer risk - article
- 8/30/10 - Court: Medical
patients not bound by signed
arbitration agreements - article
- 8/5/10 - New Jersey is sued
over the forced medication of
patients at psychiatric hospitals
- article
- 6/23/10 - Jury awards $1.6M
in suit against MD's following
bee sting death - article
- 5/3/10 - $18.5M awarded for
malpractice in NJ - article
- 12/28/09 - NJ $2.8M awarded
in X-ray damages 3 woman
injured - article
-12/22/09 - Tort reform is the
key to a healthier New Jersey -
article
- 2/17/10 - NJ jury awards $25M
to Ala. man in Accutane suit -
article
- 2/1/10 - Doctor who removed
the wrong lung, killed patient
working again at Hoboken
University Medical Center -
article
- 12/15/09 - NJ targets
doctor-drugmaker ties - article
- 12/15/09 - NJ bill would limit
rate hikes for medical
malpractice insurance - article
- 12/14/09 - NJ abortion clinic
settles lawsuit - article
- 12/3/09 - NJ hospital margins
- article
- 11/27/09 - NJ doctor now
faces a charge of fraud - article
- 10/14/09 - NJ School, doctor
sued over player's death -
article
- 10/1/09 - NJ Hospital to pay
$8.3M for alleged Kickbacks -
article
- 9/22/09 - New Jersey
Governor signs landmark
hospital law - article
- 8/10/09 - Patient sues NJ doc
in hepatitis B outbreak case -
article
- 7/24/09 - $75M malpractice
award overturned in NJ - article
- 7/15/09 - NJ alleges $8.5M
fraud by surgeon and his
treatment center - article
- 5/20/09 - Jury awards $2.4M
in teen's death ER doc found
negligent - article
- 5/7/09 - NJ hospital, others
sued for losing baby's corpse -
article
- 4/7/09 - Doctor in NJ Hep B
case has medical license
suspended - article
- 3/31/09 - 2 NJ hospitals battle
in court over 'top doc' ads -
article
temporarily suspended - article
- 9/10/10 - Malpractice costs
top $55 billion a year in U.S.,
Harvard study says - article
- 9/2/10 - Women's study:
Pre-emptive surgery reduces
cancer risk - article
- 8/30/10 - Court: Medical
patients not bound by signed
arbitration agreements - article
- 8/5/10 - New Jersey is sued
over the forced medication of
patients at psychiatric hospitals
- article
- 6/23/10 - Jury awards $1.6M
in suit against MD's following
bee sting death - article
- 5/3/10 - $18.5M awarded for
malpractice in NJ - article
- 12/28/09 - NJ $2.8M awarded
in X-ray damages 3 woman
injured - article
-12/22/09 - Tort reform is the
key to a healthier New Jersey -
article
- 2/17/10 - NJ jury awards $25M
to Ala. man in Accutane suit -
article
- 2/1/10 - Doctor who removed
the wrong lung, killed patient
working again at Hoboken
University Medical Center -
article
- 12/15/09 - NJ targets
doctor-drugmaker ties - article
- 12/15/09 - NJ bill would limit
rate hikes for medical
malpractice insurance - article
- 12/14/09 - NJ abortion clinic
settles lawsuit - article
- 12/3/09 - NJ hospital margins
- article
- 11/27/09 - NJ doctor now
faces a charge of fraud - article
- 10/14/09 - NJ School, doctor
sued over player's death -
article
- 10/1/09 - NJ Hospital to pay
$8.3M for alleged Kickbacks -
article
- 9/22/09 - New Jersey
Governor signs landmark
hospital law - article
- 8/10/09 - Patient sues NJ doc
in hepatitis B outbreak case -
article
- 7/24/09 - $75M malpractice
award overturned in NJ - article
- 7/15/09 - NJ alleges $8.5M
fraud by surgeon and his
treatment center - article
- 5/20/09 - Jury awards $2.4M
in teen's death ER doc found
negligent - article
- 5/7/09 - NJ hospital, others
sued for losing baby's corpse -
article
- 4/7/09 - Doctor in NJ Hep B
case has medical license
suspended - article
- 3/31/09 - 2 NJ hospitals battle
in court over 'top doc' ads -
article
- 11/30/10 - Charges against
Dr. Constance Sweet bound
over to Bradford County Court -
article
- 10/28/10 - Hamot ordered to
pay $3.5 million to Erie man -
article
- 10/22/10 Pennsylvania
woman wins $5 million verdict
for failure to diagnose rare
cancer - article
- 10/14/10 - Lackawanna
County doctor loses appeal in
landmark malpractice case -
article
- 10/11/10 - Jury awards
neurosurgeon $3 million for
injury at community medical
center - article
- 9/15/10 - Pittsburgh mom
sues Ebensburg Center for
daughter's death - article
- 9/10/10 - Mt. Lebanon
toddler's parents sue hospital,
doctor - article
- 9/7/10 - Sons sue UPMC in
mother's death - article
- 8/30/10 - $550,000 lawsuit
filed over medical treatment,
Wilkes Barre, PA - article
- 8/17/10 - Ohio woman who
claimed wrong implants settles
case - article
- 7/22/10 - More trouble for
abortion doctor, this time in
Pennsylvania - article
- 7/26/10 - Elderly woman's
death atop hospital settled for
$900,000 - article
- 7/18/10 - Medical Malpractice
suits drop but take toll - article
- 6/23/10 - Doctors accused of
drugs for sex overdose death -
article
- 6/10/10 - Lawsuit claims
dosage error at UPMC
Passavant led to death - article
- 5/24/10 - Woman with cancer
sues W-B General Hospital
doctors (PA) - article
- 5/18/10 - Medical malpractice
filings fall in Lacawanna, but
many say more reforms
necessary - article
- 5/10/10 - Mistrial declared in
malpractice case after doctor
faints - article
- 4/22/10 - Jury awards widow
$1.2M in malpractice trial -
article
- 4/22/10 - Malpractice suits
drops in state: Tort reform,
passed in 2003, credited for
fewer filings - article
4/16/10 - PA ordered to add
$800M to malpractice fund -
article
- 3/29/10 - PA Neurologist
facing drug charges - article
- 3/25/10 - Ex-nurse gets 7-20
years in Pa. boy's death - article
- 3/19/10 - Unusual damages
set in Phila. bedsores case -
article
- 3/16/10 - Ohio woman says
Pa. doc gave wrong breast
implants - article
- 3/12/10 - Jury awards $95
million in case of killer
Pennsylvania nurse - article
- 2/22/10 - Wrongful death suit
filed against Uniontown
Hospital - article
- 1/19/10 - Penn appeals court
finds HRT claim isn't time
barred -article
- 1/18/10 - Former nurse
convicted in PA boy's morphine
death - article
- 2/12/10 - Pennsauken doctor
arrested - article
- 2/8/10 - 2 accuse UPMC,
surgeon of malpractice in
transplant - article
- 2/4/10 - Hospital ignored
policy in Rivera death - article
- 2/3/10 - Hospital, doctors
sued over late Steelers death -
article
- 2/1/10 - Carbon County doctor
faces charges of sexually
assaulting patient - article
- 1/28/10 - Doctor cleared in
malpractice lawsuit - article
Dr. Constance Sweet bound
over to Bradford County Court -
article
- 10/28/10 - Hamot ordered to
pay $3.5 million to Erie man -
article
- 10/22/10 Pennsylvania
woman wins $5 million verdict
for failure to diagnose rare
cancer - article
- 10/14/10 - Lackawanna
County doctor loses appeal in
landmark malpractice case -
article
- 10/11/10 - Jury awards
neurosurgeon $3 million for
injury at community medical
center - article
- 9/15/10 - Pittsburgh mom
sues Ebensburg Center for
daughter's death - article
- 9/10/10 - Mt. Lebanon
toddler's parents sue hospital,
doctor - article
- 9/7/10 - Sons sue UPMC in
mother's death - article
- 8/30/10 - $550,000 lawsuit
filed over medical treatment,
Wilkes Barre, PA - article
- 8/17/10 - Ohio woman who
claimed wrong implants settles
case - article
- 7/22/10 - More trouble for
abortion doctor, this time in
Pennsylvania - article
- 7/26/10 - Elderly woman's
death atop hospital settled for
$900,000 - article
- 7/18/10 - Medical Malpractice
suits drop but take toll - article
- 6/23/10 - Doctors accused of
drugs for sex overdose death -
article
- 6/10/10 - Lawsuit claims
dosage error at UPMC
Passavant led to death - article
- 5/24/10 - Woman with cancer
sues W-B General Hospital
doctors (PA) - article
- 5/18/10 - Medical malpractice
filings fall in Lacawanna, but
many say more reforms
necessary - article
- 5/10/10 - Mistrial declared in
malpractice case after doctor
faints - article
- 4/22/10 - Jury awards widow
$1.2M in malpractice trial -
article
- 4/22/10 - Malpractice suits
drops in state: Tort reform,
passed in 2003, credited for
fewer filings - article
4/16/10 - PA ordered to add
$800M to malpractice fund -
article
- 3/29/10 - PA Neurologist
facing drug charges - article
- 3/25/10 - Ex-nurse gets 7-20
years in Pa. boy's death - article
- 3/19/10 - Unusual damages
set in Phila. bedsores case -
article
- 3/16/10 - Ohio woman says
Pa. doc gave wrong breast
implants - article
- 3/12/10 - Jury awards $95
million in case of killer
Pennsylvania nurse - article
- 2/22/10 - Wrongful death suit
filed against Uniontown
Hospital - article
- 1/19/10 - Penn appeals court
finds HRT claim isn't time
barred -article
- 1/18/10 - Former nurse
convicted in PA boy's morphine
death - article
- 2/12/10 - Pennsauken doctor
arrested - article
- 2/8/10 - 2 accuse UPMC,
surgeon of malpractice in
transplant - article
- 2/4/10 - Hospital ignored
policy in Rivera death - article
- 2/3/10 - Hospital, doctors
sued over late Steelers death -
article
- 2/1/10 - Carbon County doctor
faces charges of sexually
assaulting patient - article
- 1/28/10 - Doctor cleared in
malpractice lawsuit - article
General News
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
- 12/28/10 - Jury Awrads $7M
against 2 doctors for negligent
post-op treatment resulting in
patients 2.5 year hospital stay -
article
- 12/20/10 - States tort reform
makes lawyers wary of taking
on patients - article
-10/27/10 - An alarming
number of New York's major
medical institutions are
teetering on the financial edge -
article
- 10/19/10 - NY medical
professional liability market
stung by low rates - article
- 10/19/10 - Medical
professional liability market in
New York faces 'Day of
Reckoning' - article
- 9/21/10 - Mistakes, advances
in New York's hospitals - article
- 9/21/10 - Grandmother
misdiagnosed, sent home -
article
- 8/19/10 - Bankrupt NY
hospital target of lawsuit -
article
- 8/17/10 - Former staff file suit
against closed NY hospital -
article
- 7/7/10 - New York sees first
medical professional liability
rate hike in three years - article
- 6/19/10 - High rate for deaths
of pregnant women in New
York state - article
- 6/18/10 - doctors say bill
endangers lives: patient safety
is at risk if the state loosens
rules on midwives - article
- 6/17/10 - Easing pain of
malpractice cases: Project to
test system where hospitals
disclose medical errors
quickly, make offers - article
- 6/11/10 - Doctor discipline
rate drops, complaints rise -
article
- 6/1/10 - NYC Hospital wins
kidney transplant-cancer
lawsuit - article
- 5/24/10 - Court says St.
Vincent's can sell hospice unit
for $9M - article
- 5/17/10 - Jury convicts cancer
doc of malpractice: but patients
estate gets no award - article
- 5/12/10 - NYC's hospital
system calls for more layoffs -
article
- 5/7/10 - St. Vincent's gets
insurance request - docs fear
they wont have coverage -
article
- 5/6/10 - Doc in Beatles case
facing cancer suit - article
- 5/3/10 - Kin to get $3M in Irish
woman's NYC death - article
- 4/16/10 - St. Vincent's files for
bankruptcy - article
- 4/9/10 - Jury's five minute
deliberation was fair in
Ophthalmology malpractice
case - article
- 4/9/10 - Doctors, albany med
to pay $5.2M to settle lawsuit
over death of new mother -
article
- 3/26/10 - NYC Aims to cut
2,600 public hospital jobs -
article
- 3/15/10 - Jury sticks it to
breast doctor: patient awarded
$3.5M -article
- 3/1/10 - Doctor faked drug
habit to avoid jail - article
2/11/10 - Falls hospital to pay
family in death - article
- 2/8/10 - NY family gets $2.9M
in boy's MRI death - article
- 1/11/10 - Settlement calls for
5-year watch of NYC hospital -
article-
against 2 doctors for negligent
post-op treatment resulting in
patients 2.5 year hospital stay -
article
- 12/20/10 - States tort reform
makes lawyers wary of taking
on patients - article
-10/27/10 - An alarming
number of New York's major
medical institutions are
teetering on the financial edge -
article
- 10/19/10 - NY medical
professional liability market
stung by low rates - article
- 10/19/10 - Medical
professional liability market in
New York faces 'Day of
Reckoning' - article
- 9/21/10 - Mistakes, advances
in New York's hospitals - article
- 9/21/10 - Grandmother
misdiagnosed, sent home -
article
- 8/19/10 - Bankrupt NY
hospital target of lawsuit -
article
- 8/17/10 - Former staff file suit
against closed NY hospital -
article
- 7/7/10 - New York sees first
medical professional liability
rate hike in three years - article
- 6/19/10 - High rate for deaths
of pregnant women in New
York state - article
- 6/18/10 - doctors say bill
endangers lives: patient safety
is at risk if the state loosens
rules on midwives - article
- 6/17/10 - Easing pain of
malpractice cases: Project to
test system where hospitals
disclose medical errors
quickly, make offers - article
- 6/11/10 - Doctor discipline
rate drops, complaints rise -
article
- 6/1/10 - NYC Hospital wins
kidney transplant-cancer
lawsuit - article
- 5/24/10 - Court says St.
Vincent's can sell hospice unit
for $9M - article
- 5/17/10 - Jury convicts cancer
doc of malpractice: but patients
estate gets no award - article
- 5/12/10 - NYC's hospital
system calls for more layoffs -
article
- 5/7/10 - St. Vincent's gets
insurance request - docs fear
they wont have coverage -
article
- 5/6/10 - Doc in Beatles case
facing cancer suit - article
- 5/3/10 - Kin to get $3M in Irish
woman's NYC death - article
- 4/16/10 - St. Vincent's files for
bankruptcy - article
- 4/9/10 - Jury's five minute
deliberation was fair in
Ophthalmology malpractice
case - article
- 4/9/10 - Doctors, albany med
to pay $5.2M to settle lawsuit
over death of new mother -
article
- 3/26/10 - NYC Aims to cut
2,600 public hospital jobs -
article
- 3/15/10 - Jury sticks it to
breast doctor: patient awarded
$3.5M -article
- 3/1/10 - Doctor faked drug
habit to avoid jail - article
2/11/10 - Falls hospital to pay
family in death - article
- 2/8/10 - NY family gets $2.9M
in boy's MRI death - article
- 1/11/10 - Settlement calls for
5-year watch of NYC hospital -
article-
- 10/21/10 - Massachusetts
docs still in short supply - article
- 10/12/10 - A year later,
mystery still shrouds hospital
fatality - article
- 9/30/10 - Mass appeals court
rules child can sue over in
utero chemo exposure - article
- 9/15/10 - Doctor sentenced in
woman's abortion death -article
- 8/17/10 - Couple, hospital
settle for $1.25M in kidney
transplant suit - article
- 7/29/10 - West Hartford Doctor
accused in overdose death
faced similar accusations in
2007 - article
- 7/11/10 - Her heart is
somewhere else Chicopee
couple sues hospital, alleges
daughter's organs removed
without OK - article
- 7/2/10 - Jury awards $2.45M
for malpractice in same sex
case - article
- 7/1/10 - New law makes
medical errors public - article
- 6/30/10 - Gov. signs bill
prompted by pediatrician
scandal - article
- 6/22/10 - Del. lawmakers
pass patient protection
measures - article
- 6/21/10 - Court upholds
verdict for woman wrongly
diagnosed - article
- 5/26/10 - Mass. doctors under
increasing pressure -article
- 5/24/10 - Patient wins $4M
verdict against Conn.
gynecologist - article
- 3/29/10 - MA jury awards
$1.6M in suit over player's
death - article
- 3/8/10 - Woman sues after
Boston mom's death - article
- 3/5/10 - Suit ties death of
Boston woman to face lift -
article
- 3/1/10 - After 5 'never' events,
observer, taping required for RI
hospital - article
- 2/26/10 - Greenwich Hospital
hit with another lawsuit over
drug-addicted surgeon -article
- 2/25/10 - Delaware doctor
indicted in child sex abuse
scandal - article
- 1/25/10 - $1.56M awarded to
estate of woman who died at
Hartford Hospital - article
- 1/22/10 - Delaware wants to
freeze assets of accused
doctor - article
- 1/19/10 - AG: DPH had
authority to order DNA in fertility
case - Conn - article
- 1/18/10 - Conn. Physicians
appeal Health Net acquisition -
article
- 1/11/10 - Arrest of DE
pediatrician followed years
of complaints - article
docs still in short supply - article
- 10/12/10 - A year later,
mystery still shrouds hospital
fatality - article
- 9/30/10 - Mass appeals court
rules child can sue over in
utero chemo exposure - article
- 9/15/10 - Doctor sentenced in
woman's abortion death -article
- 8/17/10 - Couple, hospital
settle for $1.25M in kidney
transplant suit - article
- 7/29/10 - West Hartford Doctor
accused in overdose death
faced similar accusations in
2007 - article
- 7/11/10 - Her heart is
somewhere else Chicopee
couple sues hospital, alleges
daughter's organs removed
without OK - article
- 7/2/10 - Jury awards $2.45M
for malpractice in same sex
case - article
- 7/1/10 - New law makes
medical errors public - article
- 6/30/10 - Gov. signs bill
prompted by pediatrician
scandal - article
- 6/22/10 - Del. lawmakers
pass patient protection
measures - article
- 6/21/10 - Court upholds
verdict for woman wrongly
diagnosed - article
- 5/26/10 - Mass. doctors under
increasing pressure -article
- 5/24/10 - Patient wins $4M
verdict against Conn.
gynecologist - article
- 3/29/10 - MA jury awards
$1.6M in suit over player's
death - article
- 3/8/10 - Woman sues after
Boston mom's death - article
- 3/5/10 - Suit ties death of
Boston woman to face lift -
article
- 3/1/10 - After 5 'never' events,
observer, taping required for RI
hospital - article
- 2/26/10 - Greenwich Hospital
hit with another lawsuit over
drug-addicted surgeon -article
- 2/25/10 - Delaware doctor
indicted in child sex abuse
scandal - article
- 1/25/10 - $1.56M awarded to
estate of woman who died at
Hartford Hospital - article
- 1/22/10 - Delaware wants to
freeze assets of accused
doctor - article
- 1/19/10 - AG: DPH had
authority to order DNA in fertility
case - Conn - article
- 1/18/10 - Conn. Physicians
appeal Health Net acquisition -
article
- 1/11/10 - Arrest of DE
pediatrician followed years
of complaints - article
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