After a serious car accident, you may wish to recover medical expenses in a personal injury case. It’s not as simple as requesting it or claiming pain and suffering. There’s a process to follow. You must file a claim and prove your case. Certain expenses qualify, so you should come prepared. When you’ve had to come out of pocket, here’s what you should know. Amount of Personal Injury Medical Expenses Allowed Medical expenses include any bills the injured party or the health insurance company actually paid as a result of the accident. If the bills are ongoing and are still owed to the provider, … [Read more...]
Pfizer Defeats Appeal Linking Zoloft to Birth Defects
An effort to revive over 300 lawsuits alleging Zoloft caused caused birth defects in children has been dismissed by a panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Plaintiffs accused Pfizer of downplaying the risk of Zoloft to increase sales of the drug. To read entire article go to Reuters. … [Read more...]
Incorrectly Mixed Medication May Have Caused Blindness
A growing number of alleged victims have hired attorneys claiming they most likely have permanent eyesight loss due to an incorrectly mixed medication used during routine cataract surgery. The surgeries happened between January 31, 2017 and February 21, 2017. The medication was mixed at a local compounding pharmacy. There are over 100 potential victims that were treated at several eye centers in North Texas. For more detailed information, please read the article by WFAA's Marie Saavedra - June 14, 2017. … [Read more...]
Association with Ovarian Cancer Brings Law Suit to J&J
A Saint Louis jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff in her lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson for damages associated with use of talcum powder and ovarian cancer. Although a company spokesperson says that decades of research supports safety in the use of talc, other studies support the risk and doctors advise users to avoid regular use in the genital area. Read the full report from CBSNews.Com. … [Read more...]
Transvaginal Mesh Litigation
Transvaginal mesh has become a nightmare for thousands of women who have suffered severe adverse effects involving erosion and migration of the mesh along with perforation of organs from it. Surgical mesh was designed over 60 years ago for repairing hernias. It's a woven material made of synthetic or biological materials that usually comes in a prepackaged kit along with tools to aid in the surgical procedure. Because mesh was widely successful in the treatment of hernias, surgeons began using it in other parts of the body that needed support. About 20 years later they began inserting it … [Read more...]
Tort Reform in Texas Reduces Likelyhood of Ebola Lawsuits
As the recent Ebola scare seems to have subsided, we have a rest from the outcries of many onlookers who question the handling of such serious cases and focus on need for astute measures to prevent an outbreak such as is running rampant in west Africa. But it is unlikely that the courts will see any measures take from the effected or the worried onlookers since Texas has enacted strict measures limiting the liability of treatment facilities. Read this article in The Texas Observer, also found in The Guardian, reporting on where we stand in relation to our government and corporate health … [Read more...]
Attorneys Refusing Medical Cases
There is problem faced by many who are harmed in a medical setting: Attorneys refuse their cases, not because the harm didn’t happen but because the potential economic damages are too low. It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of patients a year suffer some type of preventable injury or die while undergoing medical care. For many of these patients or surviving family, a lawsuit is the only hope to recover losses, learn the truth about what happened and ensure the problem is corrected. But lawyers may have to invest $50,000 or more to pursue a case, and they usually only get paid if they … [Read more...]
Callous Workers Comp System To Blame for Unnecessary Injuries and Deaths
Houston Chronicle Columnist Patricia Kilday Hart reports how legislative "reforms" that favored insurance companies have gone too far. Delays in response to doctors' recommendations led to the premature fatal condition of a Harrison County deputy sheriff who was injured in a high speed chase. Read this compelling article from the Houston Chronicle, August 25, 2013. Further … [Read more...]
Growing Numbers of Medical Mistakes Claiming Lives of Patients
How many lives are lost each year as a result of mistakes made by the medical profession? Over ten years ago, the number reported by the Institute of Medicine was 98,000. That was in the organization's famous report known as the "To Err is Human" report. Originally desputed, that number has become widely accepted but similar estimates have more than doubled, perhaps quadrupled. As reported by the Journal of Patient Safety, more than 400,000 patients suffer premature death as a result of preventable harm to patients and that "serious harm" could be 10 to 20 times that number. Below is an … [Read more...]
The Extent of Deaths as a Result of Medical Errors is Astounding
200,000 people a year - that's what some estimates say. Politico.Com reports that Captain Chesney Sullenberger, airlines pilot known for the "Miracle on the Hudson", now campaigns for awareness of this staggering figure that is the equivalent of "20 Airline Crashes a Week". What if the airlines collectively were responsible for such a huge number of deaths? The news media would never stop reporting. The government would bring commercial aviation to a halt. But behind a curtain of privacy, in the quiet hallways of hospital wings across the United States, this is actually what is happening... … [Read more...]