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Electronic Health Record Data Show Concerns Continue Over Injury Claims

Electronic Health Reporter

Analyzing EHR-related medical malpractice claims that closed between 2010 and 2018, The Doctors Company uncovered that the pace of these claims tripled, growing from […]. The article Electronic Health Record Data Show Concerns Continue Over Injury Claims appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Update

The Health Law Firm

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This will not affect the purpose of the federal government's clearing house for disciplinary and malpractice information, but will forever change how the information is disseminated.

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Removal, Severance & Rule 21

Drug & Device Law

That started us thinking about other uses of severance of non-indispensable parties to preserve diversity – particularly, as in the Rejuvenate case, medical malpractice defendants in product liability litigation – to preserve federal diversity jurisdiction. We most recently returned to this issue here , where we discussed Sullivan v.

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

2010); Baker v. 1991); In re All Pending Chinese Drywall Cases , 2010 WL 7378659, at *9-10 (Va. March 29, 2010). 2010); Duncan v. Delaware : Merganthaler v. Asbestos Corp. of America , 480 A.2d 2d 647, 651 (Del. 1984); M.G. Dupont Hospital for Children , 393 F. 884, 892-93 & n.7 Croda, Inc. Georgia : Cure v.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Smith, LLC , 2010 WL 11566367, at *7 (N.D. May 14, 2010) (“Defendant [standards institute’s] standards are voluntary, consensus standards, and Defendant. . . 4th 259 (3d Cir. 114 (N.D.

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Questionable Treater Affidavit Insufficient Support For Defect Claim

Drug & Device Law

It is not like a malpractice claim over a sponge left in a patient during surgery. It also played out some recurring themes in these cases and presented a quirk of Illinois law we have not discussed much previously. We have railed against res ipsa in mesh and other device cases before.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. procedure that existed at the time of [plaintiff’s] injury”; malpractice was “intervening cause”) (applying Kansas law); Eck v. at 1233 (citation omitted).

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