A recent study by the Canadian Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) has increased concerns about Avandia and drugs in its class that are used to treat type 2 diabetes. The study showed patients treated with glitazones had a 60 percent higher risk of heart failure requiring hospitalization compared to patients given another class of […]
If no-one is at fault, who should pay for serious accidents?
The case of a Hartford, Connecticut man brings up an interesting ethical dilemma at the heart of defective product litigation. The man, a 51-year-old carpenter with 20 years of experience was injured in early 2003 in a nail gun accident. The man was working on the rafters of a church when a nail rebounded off […]
Clinics Fighting Back when Their Physicians Get Sued
Following up on my entry on the strain in doctor-patient relations, it seems that medical institutions have decided to play hard-ball with their patients over medical malpractice suits. In one case in Wichita, a clinic has severed relationships with patients who file medical malpractice suits, even though there was no accusation of hospital malpractice. Thus, […]
Bargaining Advantages for Doctors in Med-Mal Settlements
Although lobbyists for the insurance companies and the AMA are winning the PR battle over the representation of medical malpractice litigation (as they are winning the battle over health care reform), the truth is that physicians and their insurers rarely are forced to settle outrageous medical malpractice claims for significant amounts of money. Instead, malpractice […]
Medmal Case Outcome Linked to Merit
Although critics of the tort system for settling medical malpractice claims have long charged that the legal system is nothing more than a lottery system that can hurt good doctors and reward crooked lawyers, the truth is that the tort system works surprisingly well. According to a recent study by the Law School of the […]
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