Medical Malpractice

• Medical Malpractice in Nevada Still Troubled

  Steve Klearman | April 09, 2008 7:45 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Nevada juries are continuing a pattern of being conservative and difficult and deciding cases based on bias rather than the evidence and law. And the effects of KODIN, Nevada's ballot intiative that...

• Hospitals More Dangerous After Dark

  Steve Klearman | February 19, 2008 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  A new study that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that the graveyard shift in hospitals is the most dangerous time for a patient to require a "code blue" for a stopped heart. Researchers found that among the late night cases studied, there were a higher portion of instances where patients were discovered with no heart electrical activity; that is, too late to...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction? Part III

  Steve Klearman | February 13, 2008 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This is the last part of my three-part series on the issue of whether Nevada has jurisdiction over a doctor who practices medicine over the Internet from a different state.1. Many States Have Recognized The Propriety Of Exercising Jurisdiction Over Nonresident DoctorsCourts have found jurisdiction over nonresident doctors where they purposefully directed their actions at plaintiffs' states. ...

• Nevada Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2008 9:18 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  I will get back to my three-part series on the Nevada jurisdictional question we were analyzing on Monday or Tuesday. First, though, since I've recently mentioned the insurance industry's fraud on the Nevada voters otherwise known as KODIN, I reprint below Nevada's highly restrictive statute of limitations. If you've been injured as a result of Nevada medical malpractice, the statute below...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction? Part II

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2008 7:58 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This is the second part of what will be a three-part blog. See yesterday's blog for the issue that the following argument addresses:A. The Fiduciary Shield Doctrine Is Not Law In Nevada And Even If It Were It Would Not Preclude An Exercise Of JurisdictionThe fiduciary shield doctrine, a flawed legal theory that has generated confusion and countless inconsistent exceptions, provides that acts...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction Over an Out of State Doctor Who Treats Nevada Patients Over the Internet?: Nevada Issue of First Impression

  Steve Klearman | January 17, 2008 3:07 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  ISSUE: Whether a doctor practicing medicine in Nevada remotely over the Internet, for a California medical group that contracts with a Nevada medical group to render medical services remotely over the Internet and contractually agrees to be bound by the laws of Nevada, is subject to the jurisdiction of the Nevada courts?This is the issue of first impression that presents itself in the context...

• Thorny Issues a Daily Staple in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 16, 2008 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Any attorney who works in medical malpractice law in Nevada (and there are fewer and fewer of us) knows that difficult issues arise every week.Many of these issues are presented by people who are searching for attorneys.A common issue, after the unfortunate passage of the so-called KODIN legislation, is whether the statute of limitations has run in a particular medical malpractice case.We often...

• Response Time in Cardiac Cases Slow

  Steve Klearman | January 09, 2008 7:18 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  According to a New York Times article dated January 3, 2008, in one out of three cases of cardiac arrests in hospitals, the staff takes too long to respond and increases the risk of brain damage and death in the patient. This study was based on 6,789 patients in 369 different hospitals whose hearts stopped but could have been resuscitated with an electric shock. The study concludes that these...

• Woman Dies in Dentist Chair

  Steve Klearman | January 02, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Last week Georgette Watson, principal of Brentano Math and Science Academy in Chicago, died while undergoing a root canal in her dentist's chair. It wasn't the physical surgery that killed her, however. The blame is being placed upon her anesthesia, which put her in a state between unconsciousness and being awake, a state known as "twilight sedation." In this condition patients are typically...

• Nevada Medical Board a Subject of Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | December 29, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  As reported yesterday, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners disciplined a record number of doctors at its last meeting.The Board has come under scrutiny in recent years for a variety of practices. In fact, according to a Reno Gazette Journal article dated December 12, 2007, our Nevada Board is one of the worst in the United States for disciplining doctors. A Reno Gazette Journal inquiry...