Valleywide Legal Blog

Break Up The Doctor Cartel?

Medical professionals and their insurers frequently suggest that the high cost of medical care in this country is due to frivolous medical malpractice cases.  Former Congressman and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price claimed that limiting medical … Read More

Posted in Defensive Medicine, Doctors, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Malpractice caps, Malpractice costs, Medical Costs, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, tort reform |

Alternative Facts Drive House Malpractice Bill

The justifications put forward by the House Republicans to justify their attack on the rights of patients injured by medical malpractice are based, as they must be, on lies and misinformation.  How else to get such a blatant attack past … Read More

Posted in Defensive Medicine, Doctors, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Lawsuits, Malpractice caps, Malpractice costs, Medical Costs, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, medical malpractice damages caps, Medical Negligence, tort reform |

More On The House Malpractice Bill

House Bill 1215 places the thumb of Congress squarely on one side of the scales of justice and, unsurprisingly, it is not the side of the patient.  Last week I wrote about the caps on damages found in the medical … Read More

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What Is Driving Health Care Costs? Hint: It Is Not Medical Malpractice Claims.

You don’t need the graph above to tell you that health care costs are going up and up.  Why is that?  Well, the medical profession and its political enablers will tell you it is runaway medical malpractice suits.  In point … Read More

Posted in Doctors, drug companies, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Hospitals, Malpractice costs, Medical Costs, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice cases, medical malpractice claims |

Medical Secrecy Harms Patients.

Medical care is shrouded in secrecy.  While most doctors are good, competent, caring people, there are some who are incompetent and whose incompetence harms patients.  Who are these doctors?  Many in the medical profession know who the incompetents are but … Read More

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No Surprise: Big Business Is Taking Away Your Rights

Whether you were injured in a car accident or were the victim of medical malpractice, whether you live in Bangor, Maine or Phoenix, Arizona, the deck has been stacked against you.  Big business and its allies in the insurance industry … Read More

Posted in Finding a Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Health Care Costs, Lawsuits, Malpractice caps, Malpractice costs, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice cases, medical malpractice claims, medical malpractice damages caps, medical malpractice lawsuits, Medical Negligence, plaintiff, tort reform, Verdicts |

Why Won’t Someone in Arizona Take My Malpractice Case?

You live in Arizona and believe you have a medical malpractice case.  You have spoken to a number of law firms that handle these cases but no one will accept your case.  What is going on? Unfortunately, what is going … Read More

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Republicans in Congress Keeping Their Promise to Gut Malpractice Suits

Politicians like to come up with misleading names for their bills.   The worse the bill is for the American People, the more lovable the name they choose to divert attention from what they are actually doing.  They are true … Read More

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Are Doctors Really That Unethical?

In a bid to gain support for limitations on medical malpractice cases, we have been promised savings in the order of “hundreds of billions of dollars” by those promoting limitations.  These savings would come in two forms.  In the first … Read More

Posted in Defensive Medicine, Doctors, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Lawsuits, Malpractice caps, Malpractice costs, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, medical malpractice lawsuits, Medical Negligence, tort reform |

A Final Word About Gutting Medical Malpractice

For the last two weeks I have written about Republican plans to gut medical malpractice litigation during the process of replacing the Affordable Care Act.  While they claim there is a crisis, the leading insurers of medical malpractice say the … Read More

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