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…
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…
Continue readingNormally, 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…
Continue readingAppeals court holds NICA distinction between minimum weights for single births and multiple gestations does not violate federal equal protection laws. The NICA program, which provides compensation for certain…
Continue readingFlorida 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…
Continue readingThe Plaintiff, a woman in her seventies, had been on the anticoagulant drug Coumadin for years. This was due to a propensity for developing dangerous blood clots. She had a…
Continue readingBefore performing spinal fusion surgery, the surgeon had the patient sign a release form stating the following: As of January 1, 2013, [the doctor] will not carry any medical malpractice…
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