Legal News
- Fla. Supreme Court: Hospital Privileges Must Be Revealed in Med-Mal Cases
In a victory for medical malpractice plaintiffs, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that in response to discovery requests in malpractice cases, hospitals must turn over lists of hospital privileges granted to physicians by the facilities' credentials committees.
- Insurers inflated med mal crisis: Report
WASHINGTON—A former insurance commissioner has accused the nation’s 15 leading medical malpractice insurers of unnecessarily driving up health care costs by falsely claiming that a medical malpractice crisis exists and “price gouging” physicians.
- Years Ago, Agency Was Warned of a Drug’s Risks
A leading diabetes doctor sent the Food and Drug Administration a letter seven years ago that warned of the heart risks of the drug Avandia. And in the next year, the F.D.A. reprimanded the drug’s maker for playing down safety concerns, according to documents from 2000 and 2001.
- For the First Time, New York Links a Death to 9/11 Dust
New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, has for the first time directly linked a death to exposure to dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
- That Malpractice 'Epidemic'?
Juries in medical malpractice cases tend to sympathize with the doctors being sued rather than the patients who are suing them, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia has concluded after analyzing three decades of research on the subject.
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