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Lawsuit Alleges Medtronic Illegally Marketed Stent Device For Unapproved Use
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationA complaint filed in federal court last week "alleges Medtronic Inc. illegally marketed a relatively obscure medical device called a biliary stent in ways not approved by federal regulators," The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune reports. "The complaint was filed in U.S... ...
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Fri Mar 2010
NPR Broadcasts First Of Four Reports On College Rape, Sexual Assault
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / Litigation"Morning Edition" on Wednesday aired the first segment in a four-part series examining sexual assault and rape on U.S. college campuses. The series, which was produced in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, focuses on the "failure" of colleges and the Department of Education "to preven ...
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Trial For Lawsuit Against Anthem Blue Cross Begins In California
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe trial begins on a lawsuit targeting Anthem Blue Cross today in California. The insurer "refused to pay for" customer Ephram Nehme "to get a liver transplant in Indiana because the company wanted to save money, a lawyer for the patient told jurors Monday," the Los Angeles Times reports... ...
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Parental Notification Ballot Initiative Argued In Alaska Court
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAttorneys appeared in Alaska state court Wednesday to argue for and against a ballot initiative that would require physicians to notify the parents of minors before abortion procedures, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Attorney Jeff Feldman filed a lawsuit against the initiative's supporters on beh ...
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Electronic Prescriptions Reduce Errors By Seven-Fold
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationShould doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven times less likely to make errors than those writin ...
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Is The Person Exposing You To Radiation Qualified?
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationEvery day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures... ...
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APHA Urges Leaders To Move Forward On Health Reform
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAs President Obama and congressional leaders meet for a health reform summit, the American Public Health Association urges them to move forward on comprehensive, affordable health reform with a focus on prevention and wellness. "We applaud leaders of both parties for meeting and urge them to find co ...
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State Roundup: S.C. Plan Would End Benefits To 30,000 Disabled Residents; Judge Bars Calif. From Cutting Elderly From Day Care; Mass. Faces Lawsuit
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe Associated Press/CNBC report about legislative action in South Carolina: "Children with autism, people with spine and brain injuries and the long-term disabled in job programs are among the 30,000 people who would lose state help under a $5.1 billion spending plan approved by a House committee ...
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Federal Officials Seek To Root Out Financial And Medicare Fraud
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationReuters: "The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division told a gathering of criminal defense lawyers on Thursday that the division was using tools 'not often seen in white collar cases' to combat financial fraud," which includes Medicare... ...
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California Subpoenas Financial Records Of Seven Biggest Insurers
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / Litigation"The California state attorney general's office said Thursday that it had subpoenaed financial records of California's seven largest health insurance companies as part of an investigation into whether they illegally raised customer premiums and denied payment of legitimate claims," the Los Angeles ...
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California Consumer Group Sues Anthem Blue Cross For Changing Policies And Then Raising Rates
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationConsumer Watchdog and other plaintiffs are suing Anthem Blue Cross, the California insurer that recently told policyholders it would hike premiums by 39 percent, the Los Angeles Times reports... ...
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Obama To Release Revised Health Reform Proposal On Wednesday
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationPresident Obama on Wednesday is expected to present a revised version of his health reform proposal and lay out a strategy for Democrats to move forward on the initiative, CQ Today reports (Wayne, CQ Today, 3/1)... ...
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State Supreme Court Weighs Medical Malpractice Caps In Case That Would Impact Doctors, Patients
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe Kansas Health Institute has a package of stories about a malpractice case being considered by the Kansas Supreme Court in which the justices could determine if the state's caps on medical malpractice awards are constitutional. The case involves Amy Miller, who underwent surgery to have an ovary ...
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Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers' wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state's budget crisis doesn't justify violating federal laws ...
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Judge Bars Voluntary Manslaughter Defense, Defendant Testifies In Tiller Murder Trial
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationOn trial for first-degree murder for the shooting of abortion provider George Tiller, defendant Scott Roeder admitted on the witness stand Thursday to purchasing a gun, taking target practice, studying the doctor's schedule and, ultimately, fatally shooting him in his Kansas church on May 31, 2009, ...
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Risk Of Malpractice Suit Affects Hours Doctors Work
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationA new study shows that the number of hours physicians spend on the job each week is influenced by the fear of malpractice lawsuits. Economists Eric Helland and Mark Showalter found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when the expected liability risk increases by 10 per ...
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Senate Should Confirm DOJ Nominee Johnsen, Los Angeles Times Editorial States
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationRepublicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee should abandon efforts to block the confirmation of Dawn Johnsen as the head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, and the full Senate should confirm her, a Los Angeles Times editorial states (Los Angeles Times, 1/28)... ...
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Rights Of Pregnant Women At Issue In Fla. Case Involving Court-Ordered Hospital Stay
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationLegal, ethical and medical debates have erupted over a Florida case in which a pregnant woman was forced under court order to stay in the hospital against her wishes, the St. Petersburg Times reports. In March 2009, Samantha Burton checked in to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for what appeared to be ...
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Federal Government Indicts Sutter/CPMC To Block Illegal Health Plan Imposed On San Francisco RNs
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationSutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter/CPMC) is facing an upcoming trial over the unilateral imposition on January 1, 2010 of an unlawful health plan on registered nurses and other workers... ...
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Congress Faces One-Month Deadline On Doctor Payment Fix
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe doctor payment fix and several marketplace issues, such as insurance red tape and malpractice cases, continue to loom while health care reform efforts stall. The Hill: "At the end of February, a short-term measure enacted late last year will expire, exposing doctors who treat Medicare ...
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