Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Nevada Hepatitis Scare

  Steve Klearman | February 28, 2008 7:19 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  You know, you might think that you could go the Center for Disease Control website and get some update on what certainly appears to be a full-blown health care crisis in Las Vegas (40,000! Exposed? That's a big number! And that's a preliminary number...). But the CDC website, at least from my look around just now, is more about some form of static and slow thing. There may be something...

• Nevada Endoscopy Center Malpractice

  Steve Klearman | February 28, 2008 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As many as 40,000 infected with Hep C in what looks like a potential mass negligence case against an endoscopy center and possibly a products manufacturer. Stay tuned to this blog and I will bring you extensive independently researched details on this developing case.

• U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Medical Device Lawsuits

  Steve Klearman | February 22, 2008 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I reprint here a summary from the recent important decision in Riegel v. Medtronic. This comes directly from the People Over Profits Grassroots Action Center:Riegel v. Medtronic In this case, Charles Riegel received a balloon catheter made by Medtronic which subsequently ruptured due to overinflation. Riegel developed a heart block and underwent emergency surgery. The Riegels later brought...

• Reno Judge Slashes Damage Award

  Steve Klearman | February 20, 2008 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Washoe District Court Judge Robert Perry has reduced the recent landmark jury award against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth arising from Wyeth's development and marketing of Prempro.Judge Perry cut the award from $134 million to $58 million. $23 million is allocated toward compensatory damages and $35 million is punitive damages. Wyeth wanted the Judge to reduce the total award to $4 million.Wyeth...

• Hospitals More Dangerous After Dark

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

  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...

• Update on Nevada Allstate Attorney Misconduct Case

  Steve Klearman | February 14, 2008 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In the ongoing squabble over Allstate defense attorney Phil Emerson's repeated misconduct in arguing cases at trial, the Nevada Supreme Court rendered its latest decision on January 17, 2008.In its introduction to Lioce v. Cohen, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 1, the Court stated:On December 28, 2006, this court issued an opinion in these consolidated appeals.[2] The defendants in each of the four...

• Does Nevada Have Jurisdiction? Part III

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

  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 Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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 Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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 Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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...