Posts tagged Nevada

• Pregnant Women Get More Imaging Exams

  Steve Klearman | November 27, 2007 6:16 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Pregnant women are receiving more high-tech imaging exams, exposing their babies to higher doses of radiation than a decade ago, a study said on Tuesday. Reuters reports that while the levels of radiation exposure are low, they carry a slight risk of harm to the developing fetus, said study author Elizabeth Lazarus, a professor of diagnostic imaging at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at...

• Fallon Nevada's Arsenic Problem

  Steve Klearman | November 26, 2007 6:44 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Wrongful Death
  

  In Fallon, Nevada (about an hour and a half away from Reno) residents have been experiencing high numbers of cancer diagnoses. Although the town has a population of roughly 8,500 people, 12 children were diagnosed with leukemia over a course of approximately three years. According to the American Cancer Society approximately 1.27 percent of the population (1 in 79) will come down with the...

• Judge Uncaps Med Mal Caps

  Steve Klearman | November 25, 2007 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It's always nice to see Courts take sane approaches to the insurance industry's ongoing efforts to eliminate medical malpractice as a legal claim in America.In a November 14, 2007 article, the Chicago Tribune notes that the "controversy over limits on medical malpractice awards was ignited again after a Cook County judge on Tuesday struck down a 2-year-old state law that capped compensation to...

• Health Insurer Encourages Survival of Fittest

  Steve Klearman | November 24, 2007 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Why is it little surprise that a health insurer would work to exclude sick people?According to the American Association of Justice, quoting Lisa Girion, writing for the Los Angeles Times, "one of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved. Woodland Hills-based Health Net Inc. avoided...

• Insurance Industry Hit With $11 Million Failure

  Steve Klearman | November 23, 2007 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The insurance industry's $11 million bellyflop against Referendum 67 was an election bright spot for ruling Democrats, who otherwise took their lumps from a frugal electorate that sent establishment ideas packing. According to Curt Woodward, writing for the AP, the referendum, which allows triple damages in lawsuits alleging bad faith by insurance companies, spawned a lively campaign pitting the...

• Northern Nevadans Need to Buckle Up

  Steve Klearman | November 22, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Reno and Sparks police have indicated that they will step up enforcement of seat belt use, at least through the end of November.The Reno Gazette reports that of 30,521 passenger vehicle occupant fatalities nationwide last year, 15,523 were not restrained.Further, of those who were not restrained, 75 percent were killed.Buckle up.For more information on this subject, please refer to the section...

• Judge Weller Shot and Criticized

  Steve Klearman | November 21, 2007 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It's relatively amazing that Judge Chuck Weller continues to be criticized. One would think that a judge who is shot by a crazed ex-husband might garner more sympathy than critique. But that hasn't really been the case for Judge Weller. In fact, it seems that those who support him are attorneys, many of whom may remain dependent on him to render decisions in their cases.Martha Bellisle,...

• Depression Higher in Nevada

  Steve Klearman | November 20, 2007 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The rate of patients admitted to American hospitals with depression as a secondary diagnosis nearly tripled from 1995 to 2005, a new report found.Jason Hildalgo, writing for The Reno Gazette Journal on November 19, 2007, writes that the number of patients admitted to hospitals for other conditions but are also found to suffer from depression jumped from 93 per 10,000 people to 247 per 10,000...

• Nevada Uninsured Drivers Higher Than Expected

  Steve Klearman | November 16, 2007 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  According to an article by the Better Business Bureau dated October 19, 2007, the number of drivers across the United States, but especially in Nevada, without insurance is higher than would be expected.In a recent study by the Insurance Research Council, one out of seven at-fault drivers is uninsured. In Nevada this number rises even more with seventeen percent of drivers uninsured. This can be...

• 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...