Archive for the ‘Medical Malpractice / Litigation’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Delayed diagnosis of slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE) can result in lifelong disability and medicolegal claims of more than ￡100,000, according to a report in the latest (Spring 2008) edition of Summons, the magazine of MDDUS, The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland. The condition occurs in up to ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A 34 year old nurse from Cambridge has been struck off the register after a hearing of the Conduct and Competence Committee panel for the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) found his fitness to practise was impaired. Joseph Williams was employed by Allied Healthcare as an agency nurse and was ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The United States House Energy and Commerce Committee began aninvestigation in March of the potential conflicts of interest thatscientific panels advising the Environmental Protection Agency on thehuman health effects of toxic chemicals. Eight scientists wereidentified by this committee as serving as consultants of members ofEPA science advisory panels while receiving ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently found discriminatory a Detroit Police Department policy that denies light duty to pregnant police officers and treats pregnancies as off-the-job injuries, the Detroit News reports. The case involves a complaint filed by police officer Tisha Prater, who was denied light-duty work and placed on ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the Kansas Supreme Court allowed a Sedgwick County, Kan., grand jury to continue its investigation of abortion provider George Tiller but limited its authority to subpoena the records of Tiller's patients, the AP/USA Today reports. The court also ruled against overturning a law that allows ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider appeals by two men whose partners were forced to undergo abortions in China, the AP/Google.com reports. According to the AP/Google.com, U.S. courts have taken "varying approaches" to petitions for asylum by Chinese men who argue that they have suffered from the country's ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unsealed two lawsuits demanding that Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) return abortion records to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, the Kansas City Star reports. In unsealing the cases, the court released hundreds of documents related to the two cases.Kline, who obtained ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Advocating solely for tort reform in the legislative arena does not get to the root of the medical liability crisis, according to Richard Boothman, JD, chief risk officer for the University of Michigan Health Systems, who presented the 6th Scientific Session-The Donald F. Richardson International Symposium, "Medical Malpractice Reform: Beyond ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A randomized controlled trial conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital - in affiliation with Harvard Medical School - finds bar-coded, computer-assisted surgical sponge counting systems reduce the chance of counting errors during patient surgery by a factor of 3 to 1. The results of the study - conducted by ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Deaf people on trial were granted the right to an interpreter as early as 1725, according to Old Bailey records examined by UCL (University College London) scientists. The use of family and friends to interpret court proceedings later switched to deaf teachers and eventually written testimony, which may have disadvantaged ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Summaries of news related to medical malpractice law in Tennessee and Louisiana appear below.Louisiana: The Louisiana House on Monday voted 45-44 to reject legislation that would have expanded coverage under the state's medical malpractice laws, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. State Rep. Greg Cromer (R) wanted to add to ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case regarding the authority of a Sedgwick County, Kan., grand jury to enforce a subpoena of medical records of 2,000 women who obtained abortions after their 21st week of pregnancy at physician George Tiller's Wichita clinic, Women's Health Care Services, ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A 33 year old nurse convicted of a string of offences has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifey Council (NMC) register for breaking the NMC's Code of Professional Conduct. Kevin Murray, 33, was struck off at an NMC Conduct and Competence Committee hearing in London on Friday April 4th ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A prison nurse has been struck off the register after having an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner.Deborah Killiana Pangeti, a 35 year old mental health nurse from Hedge End, Southampton was employed in the Healthcare Centre at HMP Winchester in 2007 when she kissed a prisoner and performed an act ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A 64-year old nurse from North Bretton, Peterborough has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council register following the outcome of a hearing by the regulatory body in London on Friday, 4 April 2008. Josephine Nash was employed as a Mental Health nurse by Wentworth Croft Nursing Home in ...
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