12 September

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Statute of Limitations vs. Repose

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The Statute of Limitations legal definition: A type of federal or state law that restricts the time within which legal proceedings may be brought. When civil lawsuits are filed in Florida the state’s statute of limitations provides the deadline for when a potential plaintiff who has suffered harm must file their claim. The statute varies from state to state and by case type. In Florida, the statute of limitation is typically around 2 years from the initial incident. Not every case is easy to identify when or if the limitations have started. Many states use a so-called “discovery rule”, which essentially...

09 March

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Appeals court upholds count against hospital

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Appeals court upholds count against hospital for failing to ensure non-employee doctor used its surgical robot safely, causing patient’s death. Many hospitals hire doctors as “independent contractors” rather than ordinary employees, in the hope, it will mean that if the doctor commits malpractice, the hospital cannot be held responsible for it. However, many doctors in Florida have little or no medical malpractice insurance, while hospitals have plenty of insurance. Therefore, it is often in a medical malpractice plaintiff’s best interest if there is a way to show that the hospital should be held responsible for the malpractice of a doctor working...

17 January

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Flu Prevention Tips

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Flu season is in full effect and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has even issued a flu epidemic warning for this year's strain. The 2018 flu strain is unusually resilient due to the virus's dominant strain, H3N2, which experts have described as one that causes severe symptoms and can be deadly. The CDC states that "The single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year, but good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often can help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu. There also are flu...

21 November

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Where to buy medical malpractice insurance

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There are many places to buy medical malpractice insurance in Florida. One way to proceed is to contact each of the major malpractice companies in Florida and simply ask what they need in order to buy coverage with them and what it would cost. The leading medical malpractice insurance companies in Florida currently are: Medical Protective https://www.medpro.com/ PPro-Assurance https://www.proassurance.com/ The Doctors Company http://www.thedoctors.com/ Mag Mutual https://www.magmutual.com/ If you do not want to deal directly with the insurance companies, you may find your coverage through an insurance agency that represents multiple medical malpractice carriers. Two of the leading medical malpractice insurance carriers for Florida are: Arthur...

10 November

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Do you know which president died from medical malpractice?

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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...

30 October

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Florida Supreme Court strikes down caps on noneconomic damages in other types of medical malpractice cases.

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Back 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...

16 October

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Florida Supreme Court upholds statutory “foreign body presumption of malpractice,” even when additional evidence of negligence exists.

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Normally, a malpractice plaintiff must prove that malpractice occurred, causing their injuries. But Florida has a law which provides that following a surgery if a foreign object is found left in the surgical site (sponges, scalpels, needles, catheters, etc.), that fact alone establishes for the patient that medical malpractice occurred. The burden then shifts to the doctor or hospital defendant to specifically prove they were not negligent. In this case, a patient was still having abdominal pain four months after surgery, and a CT scan found a 4.25-inch piece of drainage tube left inside his abdomen, requiring a second surgery...

10 September

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Florida Supreme Court holds Florida patients are entitled to access to hospital adverse incident reports, in spite of federal statute.

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Florida Supreme Court holds Florida patients are entitled to access to hospital adverse incident reports, in spite of federal statute. For many decades, there were laws on the books in Florida which specifically prevented patients from having access to information about adverse medical incidents and patient injuries within hospitals, including even information about mistakes made in the patient’s own medical care. In 2004, Florida voters approved an amendment to the Florida Constitution changing the law and allowing wide access to hospital adverse incident records. This change to the Florida Constitution is often referred to as the “Patient’s Right to Know”...

Statute of Limitations vs. Repose

Appeals court upholds count against hospital

Flu Prevention Tips

Where to buy medical malpractice insurance

Do you know which president died from medical malpractice?

Florida Supreme Court strikes down caps on noneconomic damages in other types of medical malpractice cases.

Florida Supreme Court upholds statutory “foreign body presumption of malpractice,” even when additional evidence of negligence exists.

Florida Supreme Court holds Florida patients are entitled to access to hospital adverse incident reports, in spite of federal statute.

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