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Do Legal Nurse Consultants and Paralegals Understand Each Other?

07.01.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

Research showed some surprising information about the functions of legal nurse consultants (LNCs) and paralegals. Legal nurse consultants assist the legal team by using their nursing knowledge of the healthcare system. They may testify as expert witnesses, summarize medical records as consultants, locate expert witnesses, calculate costs of future medical care, and perform a whole ...

How to Make a Medical Negligence Claim for Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice

06.29.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

Ten years ago, cosmetic surgery was an advanced treatment for the elite, but in our current celebrity-focused culture, aesthetic procedures have become far more common and have risen in popularity.Going through with cosmetic surgery is a daunting prospect, you need to make sure you find a registered clinic with qualified and experienced surgeons to ensure ...

Medical Malpractice Crisis – Do Frivolous Lawsuits Drive Doctors Away From the Profession?

06.24.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

A brief review for those who may be unfamiliar with this issue. A lawsuit that claims that a doctor or hospital was negligent is a medical malpractice suit. The complaint alleges that a treatment fell below the standard of care that is legally expected of a medical professional. The only way that a breach of ...

Medical Malpractice Litigation Financing

06.21.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

Tens of thousands of people each year are injured or die due to medical malpractice. These injures may be a result from surgical infections, failure to diagnose or misdiagnoses, medical errors, and surgical malpractice. When a person is admitted to a hospital for treatment, doctors, surgeons, health professionals and hospitals can be held responsible if ...

Medical Malpractice Statistics Show Staggering Health Care Negligence

06.18.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

Across the nation cases of physician negligence or carelessness among health care providers result in thousands of personal injuries and deaths each year. The average citizen, however, does not realize just how shocking medical malpractice statistics are. A recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that medical malpractice led to 225,000 ...

Medical Negligence – The Components That Make Up a Negligence Claim

06.15.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

Medical NegligenceMedical negligence is an act, or the failure to act, by a medical provider within the medical care of a patient that is not consistent within the accepted standard of care.For negligence to have occurred, the following elements must be present:Duty -A duty was owed from a medical provider to a patient within an ...

Suing For Your Baby’s Brain Injury

06.08.2011 · Posted in Medical Malpractice

If you have read about men and women submitting lawsuits since their children developed cerebral palsy, it was likely that health-related negligence was a factor in that child’s harm. Cerebral palsy is a situation that results directly from a brain injury. The brain injury can be caused by several unique methods.In several circumstances, brain damage ...