When a patient is harmed by a negligent doctor, nurse, hospital or other health care provider or institution they deserve some measure of justice. This can come by way of compensation, either through a settlement or jury award, as in medical malpractice litigation. It...
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Eye Surgeon Pays $1.4M To Settle Unnecessary Surgery Lawsuit
An ophthalmologist recently agreed to pay the federal government $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit against him concerning the False Claims Act. The federal government alleges that Dr. John Arthur Kiely performed unnecessary surgeries on Medicare and Medicaid patients...
Florida Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Damage Cap
The ruling may spark other states to only allow fact-based measures of tort reform Medical malpractice lawsuits have long been the political scapegoat for the exorbitant cost of U.S. healthcare. Although facts have never supported claims that malpractice...
Psoriasis Study Reveals Doctors’ Common Ignorance Of Guidelines
The successful practice of medicine involves a great deal of skill, insight and intelligence, but it also requires doctors to remain current with industry knowledge.A new dermatological study evidences the large divide that may exist between physicians that evolve to...
Journal: Some Hospitals Fall Short On Basic Infection Prevention
Healthcare-associated infections kill 100,000 each year in the U.S., often because basic safety guidelines are not followed. That is what makes a medical study recently published in the American Journal of Infection Control so disconcerting. Approximately one in five...
How Are Surgical Patients Exposed To Incurable Brain Disease?
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) is an untreatable brain disease affecting one in one million people each year. It is thankful that CJD is rare, because it is often regarded as the human version of "mad cow" disease, quickly transforming healthy brain proteins into...
Pregnant Moms Receive Painkiller Meds Despite Safety Concerns
A recent study reveals that 14 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. are prescribed powerful painkillers by their doctors. The statistic is particularly unsettling because there is little research about the effects of narcotics on unborn children. Of the few studies...
Family To Receive $9M For Complications Causing Cerebral Palsy
A family recently settled its lawsuit against a Hawaii military hospital for birth injuries that caused a boy to develop cerebral palsy. The lawsuit listed disturbing details about doctors' actions preceding the emergency c-section birth of Noah Whitney, now 3. Noah's...
McKeen Honored By Michigan Lawyers Weekly
On behalf of Michigan Lawyers Weekly, I want to congratulate Brian J. Mckeen of McKeen & Associates for being chosen as one of the distinguished lawyers who will be honored for reputable work and success in the legal community on Thursday, March 20th at the 2014...
Surgeon’s Egotism, Drug Use Caused Patients’ Paralysis, Death
The former patients of a surgeon recently filed lawsuits against the hospital that hosted him, arguing that it had knowledge that the doctor was an "an egomaniac, mentally ill, an alcoholic, drug addict or a combination thereof."The lawsuits allege that the hospital,...