Blog Posts in March, 2011
Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
Many attorneys and most Californians do not remember that before MICRA was enacted by the Legislature in 1975, the California Medical Association and the California Hospital Association conducted a ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
Hospital risk managers and their insurance carriers have a far better understanding about the value of any medical negligence claim when it is presented to them in the proper terms. Since non-economic ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
The same statistics that show 80 percent of medical malpractice cases that go to trial result in a defense verdict, also show that over 25 percent of all cases are settled prior to trial. It is the ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
Medical malpractice cases provide the only mechanism in our society to provide some level of compensation to the victims of medical malpractice. Even though MICRA limits non-economic damages to ...
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Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
A Georgia jury has ruled that two local health care facilities must pay over $9 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Attorneys say that a 51-year-old woman died due to infected pressure ulcers. The ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
We all know the statistics on medical negligence cases: 80 percent of cases that go to trial result in the defense verdicts, and even if you win for the plaintiff, under MICRA, the recovery and ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Dr. Bruce Fagel
Beyond offering an additional legal basis for liability in cases where brain cooling was not provided, the use of brain cooling may have a dramatic effect on the damages aspect of all cases involving ...
Continue reading "Brain Cooling in Neonates: The Medical-Legal Implication (Part 3 of 3)" »