Medical Malpractice

• Laparoscopic Malpractice Case

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A jury in Oswego County in upstate New York has awarded a two million five hundred thousand dollar verdict in an unusual medical malpractice case. The patient was suffering from abdominal pain and the defendant physician decided to do a laparoscopic examination. While inserting the trocar, the defendant transected both the aorta and the vena cava. The patient suffered a major hemorrhage but...

• Insurance Companies Significantly Overstating Their Losses

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2006 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A recently published study by The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights demonstrates that insurance companies have been significantly overstating their losses and then revising them downward in later years.The study showed that the insurance companies reported "incurred losses," what they expected to have to pay out on claims, averaged 46% larger that what they actually paid out. The...

• New Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2006 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, has issued an announcement regarding an encouraging new treatment for women with advanced ovarian cancer.The treatment involves delivering anti-cancer drugs into a vein and directly into the patient's abdomen. This has been found to extend overall survival for women with advanced ovarian cancer by about a...

• DC Scare Tactics

  Staff Writer | January 06, 2006 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A new survey by Public Citizen has put the lie to the scare tactics employed by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia which grossly understated the number of obstetricians practicing in the District. The Public Citizen survey sought to identify and determine the status of all DC obstetricians and found that obstetric services are readily available and there are dozens more...

• Virginia Medical Malpractice Crisis?

  Staff Writer | January 04, 2006 3:02 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  In an opinion piece from the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, a closer look is taken at the Medical Malpractice "crisis" affecting Virginia and 19 other states. As usual, high med-mal insurance premiums are being blamed on "frivolous" lawsuits, but a closer look at the facts reveals that this simply isn't true.A few of the more interesting points from the column:In the Old Dominion, figures show,...