Medical Malpractice

• Doctors' Malpractice Histories to be Reported

  Steve Klearman | July 14, 2008 3:58 PM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  The Reno Gazette Journal reports that after 84 hepatitis C cases were linked to the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada and more than 50,000 patients were notified they might be at risk, the...

• California Rates Cardiac Surgeons

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 7:43 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  This from Garth Sullivan, Esq. at Indox Consulting:For the first time, California consumers can find out how individual cardiac surgeons fare on coronary bypass procedures. In a new report, the state has listed bypass death rates for 121 hospitals and 302 heart surgeons. The data is drawn from adult bypasses performed between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2004. Hospital fees paid for the $1.5...

• Proving a Medical Malpractice Case in Nevada - Part II

  Steve Klearman | August 30, 2006 9:12 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  This blog I will continue with Nevada Supreme Court case selections that pertain to proving medical malpractice claims in Nevada. As always, when I list holdings from multiple cases, selections are listed in chronological order starting with more recent cases:In a medical malpractice case, under the traditional doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, the presumption of negligence arises after plaintiff...

• Insurance Companies Blame Lawyers for Bad Earnings

  Steve Klearman | March 24, 2006 7:46 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  Medical malpractice insurance companies pushed hard on tort reform after they lost money (along with everyone else) in the stock market a few years back.Jordan Margolis, a Chicago personal injury lawyer, recently reported on his blog, that new studies show that we are not in a medical malpractice insurance crisis now.Magolis notes: Just as consumer rights organizations predicted, the so-called...

• When Doctors Are Not Listening

  Steve Klearman | March 24, 2006 7:25 AM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  I like to tell my injury clients that their doctors are the most important witnesses in their cases.When a case is large or complex, I tell my clients that we can hire expert doctors, but treating doctors tend to have greater credibility with a jury since they 1) are not paid to provide opinions (even though most demand payment to testify); and 2) have actual "hands-on" contact with the...

• Nevada Medical Malpractice Premiums Still High

  Steve Klearman | March 22, 2006 12:39 PM | 1 CommentReno, NV

  Who would have thought it? The insurance companies lobbied ferociously and spent millions lying to voters about the necessity of medical malpractice reform (the so-called "Keep Out Doctors in Nevada" initiative), and over a year later, medical malpractice premiums have not gone down in any meaningful way.In a story two weeks ago by the Reno-Gazette Journal and other newspapers, we learned what...

• Nevada Surgical Patients May be At Higher Risk for Infection

  Steve Klearman | April 30, 2009 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  A nonprofit Consumer's Union issued a report April 27, 2009, stating that over a one year period, almost 100,000 patients were subject to increased risks of infection following surgical procedures...

• Urge Your Senators to Vote YES to Protect Patients' Rights!

  Steve Klearman | April 27, 2009 12:31 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Bill AB 495 has made it to the Senate but further support is needed! The bill seeks to repair some of the harm caused by the KODIN (Keep Our Doctors in Nevada) legislation. Among other things,...

• Nevada Supreme Court to Address Backlog of Medical Malpractice Claims

  Steve Klearman | April 07, 2009 11:33 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  An article in Nevada Supreme Court News announced recently that the Nevada Supreme Court will be conducting a settlement program to resolve the crisis of backlogged medical malpractice claims in...

• Stand up for Patients' Rights! Urge Your Representative to Say YES to AB495.

  Steve Klearman | April 07, 2009 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  In 2004, voters approved Question 3, known as the Keep Our Doctors in Nevada (KODIN) initiative. The legislation cut the statute of limitations for filing a medical malpractice suit from two years...