Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Enslaved Foreign Doctors in the Nevada Outback

  Steve Klearman | November 15, 2007 7:53 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Reno pediatrician has told state lawmakers that a federal program designed to bring physicians to underserved areas of Nevada has resulted in "indentured servitude" for some of the foreign doctors.Frank Mullen, reporting for the Reno Gazette Journal on Tuesday, writes that:From 2001 until August 2006, Dr. Shaji Mathew was part of the J-1 program, in which Nevada doctors sponsor physicians from...

• Energy Drinks May Speed Heart, Boost Blood Pressure

  Steve Klearman | November 14, 2007 12:26 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ever wonder if a Red Bull could mess with your physiology? A better question for anyone who's ever had one might be: ever wonder how it couldn't?A new study suggests a potential correlation between energy drinks and heart and blood pressure issues. Yahoo cites a new story from Will Dunham at Reuters: The increasingly popular high-caffeine beverages called energy drinks may do more than give...

• First Cloned Monkey Announced

  Steve Klearman | November 14, 2007 7:43 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Scientists in the U.S. announced today in the journal Nature that they had created the first cloned monkey utilizing the same cloning techniques that brought us Dolly the Sheep (is Dolly still kickin'?) and other engineered animals including mice, pigs, cats, cows and dogs. The monkey is a rhesus macaque and was created (as I understand) from the cloned embryos of numerous rhesus macaque...

• Nevada Alternative Medicine Doctor Fined

  Steve Klearman | November 13, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a Las Vegas Review Journal article, a physician and alternative medicine doctor in Carson City, Frank Shallenberger, entered a guilty plea admitting to malpractice for failure to diagnosis colon cancer in one of his patients. This misdiagnosis ultimately lead to the patient's death. The doctor never performed any tests or examinations after the patient complained of symptoms of...

• Wyeth Smacked by Reno Jury

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As many Northern Nevadans are aware, a Reno jury recently handed down a major verdict against drug giant, Wyeth.This comes from David Parker writing for the Reno Gazette Journal:Wyeth plaintiffs Arlene Rowart, from left, of Incline Village, Jeraldine Scofield of Fallon and Pamela Forrester of Yerington listen shortly after the jury ruled in their favor in the trial against the pharmaceutical...

• Merck Agrees to $4.85 Billion Settlement

  Steve Klearman | November 09, 2007 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Merck agreed to pay more than $4 billion to settle the majority of the claims that have arisen from their popular drug Vioxx. Victims and their families claim that Vioxx causes heart attacks and strokes.Merck has won most of the Vioxx cases that have gone to trial and many observers actually believed that this was a favorable settlement for Merck.Approximately 38,000 or the 60,000 Vioxx...

• Medical Malpractice Reform Does Not Deliver in Texas

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

  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...

• Businesses Fighting Fewer Suits

  Steve Klearman | November 07, 2007 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The following comes from the American Associaiton of Justice quoting Sheri Qualters at the National Law Journal:American businesses are filing and fighting fewer lawsuits, according to Fulbright & Jaworski's fourth annual Litigation Trends Survey. Seventeen percent of respondents have not defended a lawsuit in the past year, compared with 11% in the prior year. The rate of corporations bringing...

• Why Binding Arbitration Can Forfeit Your Rights

  Steve Klearman | November 06, 2007 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Yesterday I blogged on some of the negative aspects of binding arbitration. Here's more information on why this often misunderstood form of alternative dispute resolution can be problematic.Buried in the fine print of most consumer contracts - such as credit cards, insurance plans and car deals - is a clause, which waives the buyer's constitutional right to trial by jury. These contracts...

• Binding Arbitration Bad for Consumers

  Steve Klearman | November 05, 2007 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  There have been recent efforts by federal legislators to impose binding arbitration in a variety of contexts.You may have never heard of Binding Mandatory Arbitration, but that would not prevent this unfair practice, visited on unsuspecting consumers, from destroying your life. Buried in the fine print of many consumer contracts for credit cards, new homes and cars are clauses that stack the...