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• Insurers Are Refusing to Pay for Hospital Errors

  Frank Bailey | January 21, 2008 2:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  What is this world coming to? Insurers are refusing to pay for hospital errors. Give me a break! For years the hospital's liability carriers have had to be drug into court kicking and screaming to make them pay for a hospital's errors. Now, it looks like a patient's medical insurance is following suit. Who then is to pay for the hospital's errors? Surely not the wrongdoer...Latest news...

• Medical Errors: Is Our Health Care System Safe

  Frank Bailey | January 18, 2008 8:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Errors in health care are a leading cause of death and injury. Health care should be safe. It is not! In a revealing study, the Institute of Medicine found that sizable numbers of Americans are harmed as a result of medical errors. This study was authored by a blue ribbon panel which included William C Richardson as its chair. Mr. Richardson was President and CEO of the W. K. Kellogg...

• How to Make Our Highways Safe

  Frank Bailey | January 04, 2008 3:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The cause of the Tornado bus crash that killed four on Interstate 40 near Forrest City Arkansas is still unclear, but new facts point to driver fatigue. Police have now confirmed the driver was on amphetamines, a drug used to stay awake. Police have also learned that the Tornado Bus Co. falsified records by listing a co-driver, when the co-driver was actually off duty and in El Paso, Texas at...

• Meningitis and the Trial Attorney

  Frank Bailey | January 02, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Meningitis is usually a complication of another bacterial infection such as pneumonia. With meningitis, the brain and spinal cord meninges (hence meningitis) become infected. If caught early and the infecting organism responds to antibiotics, the prognosis is usually good. If the meningitis is not treated early the prognosis is much worse, often resulting in death or permanent brain damage. ...