Medical Malpractice

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Doctors Attempt 'No Sue" Clause

  Steve Klearman | May 28, 2007 6:40 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Some doctors in New Jersey are now asking their patients to sign away their legal rights. The American Association of Justice cites to Dick Dahl's story published at LawyersUSA:A group of New Jersey ob-gyns has begun asking prospective patients to sign away their right to a jury trial, touching off a debate about the enforceability of the waivers. Citing the high cost of medical malpractice...

• Bill Introduced to Expand Nevada's "Good Samaritan" Law

  Steve Klearman | March 10, 2009 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Nevada Legislators introduced Bill AB200 on March 5, aimed at expanding Nevada's Good Samaritan Law. Under existing law in Nevada, many medical professionals are shielded from civil liability for...

• Statute of Limitations in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 18, 2006 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Nevada's 2004 ballot initiative, concieved and created by the U.S. medical malpractice insurance lobby, and naively passed by Nevada's voters (who thought that they were voting to "keep doctors from moving out of Nevada"),contains a new one-year statute of limitations that severely curtails the rights of Nevada's medical malpractice victims.Nevada statute 41A.097 provides: 1. Except as...

• Medical Malpractice Reform Does Not Deliver in Texas

  Steve Klearman | November 08, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Rural Texas is still waiting for the doctors tort reform was supposed to deliver. This comes from the American Association of Justice quoting Suzanne Batchelor writing for the Texas Observer:The flood of beguiling baby photographs began cascading into mailboxes across Texas as the 2003 fall election drew near. Gracing the cover of a slick brochure, the infant smiled as a stethoscope--held by an...

• Relationship Between Low LDL and Cancer

  Steve Klearman | August 01, 2007 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This from an email to me yesterday from Indox Consulting. More contradictions in medical research:Results from a new analysis, initially designed to determine whether there was a correlation between the extent to which statins lowered low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels and liver and muscle toxicity, suggests that the cardiovascular benefits of achieved levels of LDL cholesterol...

• Ageism and Medical Malpractice

  Steve Klearman | April 27, 2007 8:50 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  In a new article courtesy of AAJ, attorneys Elizabeth Faiella and Peter Gulden examine the issue of "ageism" in health care and litigation.They write, among other things:When the plaintiff has suffered injury because of a doctor's failure to diagnose cancer or provide adequate treatment, the lawyer can count on jurors to hold certain biases. They have been conditioned to believe that medical...

• 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...