Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Northern Nevada Hospitals Expand

  Steve Klearman | June 24, 2007 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Everywhere you look in Northern Nevada hospitals are expanding (and advertising more).This article by Zack Hall from today's Reno Gazette Journal provides detail:The region's major hospitals want people in Northern Nevada to know that the reasons for leaving Nevada for health care are waning.Renown Health, Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center, Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Center and Northern...

• HIPPA Hints

  Steve Klearman | June 07, 2007 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Here's a handy guideline to HIPPA that was sent to me by the Institute for Paralegal Education. This was apparently written by attorney Heather Brochu (a short bio is at the bottom of this blog):The primary purpose of HIPPA is to outline circumstances in which an individual's protected health information may be used or disclosed by covered entities.Covered Entities Under HIPPA• Health care...

• Racism and Low Mammography Rates

  Steve Klearman | June 04, 2007 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  More African American women die of breast cancer. A recent Yale study found, however, that there was no association was observed between perceived racial discrimination and nonadherence to age-specific mammography screening guidelines.D. Garth Sullivan, from Indox Consulting, expands in a recent mass email:Perceived racial discrimination is not associated with nonadherence to screening...

• New Nevada Law Imposes Liability on Those Who Furnish Alcohol and Drugs

  Steve Klearman | June 03, 2007 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  SB7, effective October 1, 2007, establishes civil liability for certain acts involving the provision of alcohol and controlled substances.Existing law provides immunity from civil liability to a person who serves or sells an alcoholic beverage to another person for damages caused by an intoxicated person as a result of that service or sale. (NRS 41.1305) Section 2 of this bill limits that...

• Nevada Health Care Providers Must Disclose Interest in Physical Therapy Business

  Steve Klearman | June 01, 2007 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Another Nevada legislative session has come and is almost gone.I will report on interesting legislative developments over the next few months.AB 468, effective October 1, 2007, requires providers of health care who refer patients to or recommendphysical therapy to a patient to provide a written disclosure to the patient of any financial interests that the provider of health care has in a...

• Skin Cancer Patient Awarded $5.7 Million

  Steve Klearman | June 01, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  NBCSanDiego.com reports that a skin cancer patient was recently awarded $5.7 million in a failure to diagnose case:A Superior Court jury awarded $5.7 million in damages to a bedridden man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer.The verdict is the largest medical-malpractice award in California this year, but will be cut to $1.9 million under a state statute limiting damages in...

• Doctors Attempt 'No Sue" Clause

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

  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...

• Nevada Lawyer Charged in Personal Injury Scam

  Steve Klearman | May 23, 2007 6:37 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Las Vegas personal injury lawyer Noel Gage was charged in what is described as a "wide-ranging and expansive" investigation into the way that certain personal injury cases were allegedly handled.The following quotes come directly from the Las Vegas Review Journal on May 23, 2007: Las Vegas personal injury attorney Noel Gage surrendered to the federal government Tuesday after he was indicted on...

• Intermediate Court for Nevada?

  Steve Klearman | May 16, 2007 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The following blurb comes from the Nevada Supreme Court's website as of today:"Over the past 30 years, Nevada's Judicial and Legislative Branches have partnered to promote the creation of an intermediate appellate court - the Nevada Court of Appeals - and are in the process of doing so again.A new study compiled by the Nevada Supreme Court at the behest of the Nevada Legislature...

• Decubitis Ulcers

  Steve Klearman | May 14, 2007 7:16 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  My law firm in Nevada has handled numerous medical malpractice and injury cases that involved decubitus ulcers.I received this description of decubitus ulcers from D. Garth Sullivan at INDOX Consulting, a medical expert service:Chronic lower extremity ulcers affect approximately 2.5 million to 4.5 million people in the US. In addition to pressure ulcers, this growing clinical problem is most...