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Public Protection Lawyer's Blog
The Public Protection Lawyer's Blog, published by Glenn Goodhart, focuses on legal issues related to medical malpractice, product liability, and punitive damages. It discusses the implications of damage caps in various states, highlighting how legislative limits affect compensation for victims of medical negligence. The blog also examines specific case verdicts involving misdiagnosis, delayed medical care, and off-label drug use, illustrating the challenges in holding healthcare providers and manufacturers accountable. Additionally, it critiques the intersection of government regulation and healthcare markets, emphasizing the impact on patient safety and legal recourse.
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Puny Punitives
Punitive damage awards come up only occasionally in medical malpractice cases because punitive damages are only awarded to “penalize, punish, or deter” a defendant. Doctors are typically trying to help but make mistakes out of ignorance, fatigue, or even sloth…
Capped Out
It’s happened again. Bryanna Baker, then 24-years old, became a cardiac cripple in need of a heart transplant because her heart attack was misdiagnosed. This week a Las Vegas jury awarded her $9 million, but because of a…
Two New Med-Mal Verdicts
Sometimes the practice of law takes up so much of my time that I don’t get to blog. But I’ve resurfaced now and two interesting verdicts have come out recently.
Hospital to New York’s rich and famous, Lenox Hill,…
Good Verdict Bad Law
A former cop in Terre Haute Indiana, Jeffrey W. Davis, just won a $2.5 million medical malpractice verdict. But, the judge has no choice and must take half of the verdict away.
Davis was 35 in 2004 when he…
Doctors in the Courtroom
I’ve just gotten through two of the toughest weeks in my career. I was in four cities, not including Atlanta, in four days doing depositions and then worked through the weekend and Monday getting pleadings out to meet a deadline. …
Birmingham Again
A Birmingham Alabama jury awarded the family of Laboyish Catlin $3 million last Friday (February 11, 2011.) Mr. Catlin, then 37, bled to death in January 2006 a few days after ulcer surgery at Baptist Princeton Hospital. Essentially, the…
Methadone Madness
Suppose a two-year old gets into the babysitter’s methadone, but at least the babysitter manages to rush the child to the emergency room. The emergency-room doctor observes the child for a few hours, then sends the child home; the child…
Drugging Kids
I’m sure at one time or another all parents have wished for a magic pill that would make their kids easier to deal with. No shortage of hucksters and snake-oil salesmen stand ready to fulfill that need. I believe most…
Addendum to The Holy Trinity
LewRockwell.com just published an interesting article about narcotic use in the United States prior to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. http://www.lewrockwell.com/huebert/huebert35.1.html