One of the Presidents of the United States was Killed by Medical Malpractice Here is the story of President James A. Garfield: Less than 4 months after obtaining office Garfield was shot in the arm and back by Charles Guiteau, who reportedly was angry because President Garfield declined to name him the Ambassador to France. According to a story reported in CBS news, and elsewhere, the shot in the back was not fatal because it did not hit any vital organs. The bullet lodged behind his pancreas. If the doctors had just left him alone he likely would have survived. However, within...
Continue readingBack in 2004, a law was passed by the Florida Legislature placing severe caps on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. In a Florida Supreme Court case decided back in 2014, the Florida Supreme Court found those caps to be unconstitutional in malpractice cases involving the death of the patient. (Estate of McCall v. the United States, 134 So. 3d 894 (Fla. 2014). That earlier decision technically left open the question of whether the caps were still in effect for malpractice cases when the patient was only seriously injured but did not die because of the medical malpractice. Now, in...
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