Medical Malpractice

• Immunity for Emergency Room Care Is A Deadly Costly Mistake

  David Mittleman | October 01, 2009 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Proposed Michigan Senate Bill 858 (SB 858)(PDF file) could forever alter the quality of care in Michiagn Hospital Emergency Rooms, resulting numerous devastating consequences for Michigan patients,...

• Mandated Reporting of Injuries to Patients Takes Hold in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

  David Mittleman | July 25, 2009 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Not many people know the extent of avoidable mistakes that occur in hospitals and are never disclosed to the public. However, under laws that took effect last year in Virginia and a few years...

• Hospital Mistakes Not Being Reported

  David Mittleman | September 19, 2008 3:26 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  Hospitals and physicians not only have a duty to provide competent care, but also to notify the patients if they have been harmed by their negligence. Unfortunately, studies have found that...

• How To Prevent Hospital Acquired Infections

  David Mittleman | May 05, 2008 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  According to the CDC, approximately 1.7 million people every year receive an infection related to health care treatment. Of those 1.7 million, approximately 99,000 die from health care related...

• FDA Announces Heparin Recall

  David Mittleman | March 08, 2008 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Late last month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the drug manufacturer Baxter International would be recalling all of its remaining Heparin products. Earlier in February, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory warning doctors and other health care providers not to use Baxter Heparin products. According to the FDA, there have been hundreds of reports of serious side...

• Georgia Supreme Court Considers Whether "Tort Reform" Equals Crooked Justice

  David Mittleman | September 16, 2009 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case that could invalidate the insurance industry's attempts to provide immunity to the most negligent doctors and deny recovery to the most...

• "I'm Sorry" Policy Works for University of Michigan Health System

  David Mittleman | July 22, 2009 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  It’s like a test to see who will blink first: patients, who are injured as a result of medical malpractice, want justice for the pain and suffering they endure, while hospitals and...

• Michigan Supreme Court rightfully decides that domestic labor has economic value

  David Mittleman | July 10, 2009 4:21 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI

  In a 4-3 decision, the new Gang of Justice at the Michigan Supreme Court stood up to conservative Justice Robert Young and ruled that backbreaking domestic work is, in fact, work. Michigan...

• Abandoned Surgical Patient Speaks Out

  David Mittleman | May 14, 2009 7:41 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A 32-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was left on an operating table in a New York hospital last month is speaking out about her ordeal. Jennifer Ronca, the mother of three children, had her head...

• Negligent Circumcision and Failure to Respond lead to $2.3 Million Dollar Jury Verdict

  David Mittleman | April 03, 2009 8:54 AM | 8 CommentsLansing, MI

  A jury in Georgia awarded $1.8 million in damages to a boy (and $500,000 to his mother) who will live the rest of his life with a severed penis. At the time of his birth, the attending physician...