Posts tagged Wrongful Death

• 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...

• Thorny Issues a Daily Staple in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 16, 2008 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Any attorney who works in medical malpractice law in Nevada (and there are fewer and fewer of us) knows that difficult issues arise every week.Many of these issues are presented by people who are searching for attorneys.A common issue, after the unfortunate passage of the so-called KODIN legislation, is whether the statute of limitations has run in a particular medical malpractice case.We often...

• Woman Dies in Dentist Chair

  Steve Klearman | January 02, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  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...

• Deleted Emails and Production

  Steve Klearman | December 26, 2007 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ah the new and complicated world of how email production is handled by courts.Scott Roseland, at cybercontrols (www.cybercontrols.net), cites to Benton v. Dlorah, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. D. Kan, Oct. 30, 2007. There, the plaintiff informed defendant at her deposition that she had deleted e-mails, and defendant filed a motion to compel plaintiff to produce relevant documents, to produce her hard...

• Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Nevada Doctor

  Steve Klearman | December 18, 2007 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Here is a list of ten questions from MSN, commented on by John S. Ford, MD, MPH in his California Medicine Man blog dated December 13, 2007 1) Do I really need this test? Great question but the author is preaching not to the choir, but to the tree stump. It's pretty well documented that as far as the patient is concerned: "Nothing is too good for my health...as long as someone else is footing...

• Avoid Personal Injury Cycling in Reno

  Steve Klearman | December 14, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Reno is still pretty dangerous and challenging for bicyclists. This is largely due to the need for a better route of paths, better marked paths and a need for a better continuation of the paths network. Does this mean that Reno is an unsafe place for bicyclists to ride overall? Not necessarily, but there are certain precautions that every bicyclist should take, aside from simply wearing helmets...

• Lymph Node Assessments Skipped in Breast Cancer Cases

  Steve Klearman | December 05, 2007 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A startling 11% of those in a 200,000-patient national sample did not receive a lymph node assessment while undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer. The recommended practice promotes disease staging and appropriate treatment selection. Garth Sullivan, Esq., at Indox Consulting (415-568-7116) reports that researchers explored the impact of patient race and ethnicity, insurance status,...

• HIV on the Rise in America

  Steve Klearman | November 30, 2007 7:55 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Wrongful Death
  

  According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2001 to 2005 (the latest years available), the number of new cases of HIV infection diagnosed among 15-to-19-year-olds in the United States rose from 1,010 in 2001, held steady for the next three years, then jumped 20 percent in 2005, to 1,213 cases.For young people aged 20 to 24, cases of new infection have climbed...

• 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...