Medical Malpractice

• Don't Wait Too Long....Time Lines for Filing Suit

  Rebecca Castell | March 12, 2007 5:32 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  There is a clock ticking from the date you are injured....and it only hurts the victim. In Ohio, and every state, there is a "statute of limitations" which governs the amount of time which a victim has to file a complaint against the individual/s or company which caused him or her harm. This time period typically begins when the individual is injured, for example, when the car accident...

• Tissue Supplier Reports Infection From Cadaver Tissue Prompting Recall

  Jack Landskroner | November 29, 2006 2:22 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  For the third time in the last year a supplier of human tissue used in surgical procedures has recalled tissue because of safety concerns. A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery -- a discovery that has led the nation's largest tissue bank to ask 750 hospitals around the country to return 2,400 tendons and other body...

• Pharmacy Wars Dangerous to Consumers

  Justin Madden | October 27, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The pharmaceutical industry is a multi billion dollar a year industry. Prescriptions are no longer just filled at the local drug store, where you would expect a competent pharmacist to work. Instead, prescriptions are filled at national chains, such as CVS, Rite Aid, as well as Wal Mart, and Giant Eagle. What's next, Home Depot? The intensely fierce competition for your pharmacy business...

• Errors in Filling Prescriptions=Malpractice

  Paul Grieco | October 02, 2006 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Walgreens Pharmacy has been ordered to pay $31 Million Dollars to the family of a 79 year old man who died as a result of the misfilling of a prescription. The pharmacist who filled the prescription was employed by Walgreens, despite his addiction to pain medications and other serious problems which put consumers at risk Jurors properly determined that the only way to change the enviroment at...

• Staph Infections Become More Resistant to Antibiotics

  Jack Landskroner | September 24, 2006 12:03 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Recently it has come to the attention of health care officials in Cleveland that a staff infection may have been transferred from person to person during a high school football game. Staph infections among high school football players in Lakewood and Berea were the first reported local outbreaks in what some call a rapidly emerging epidemic. They probably won't be the last. MRSA gets its name...

• Defective Human Tissue Transplants: Product Defect or Medical Malpractice?

  Jack Landskroner | September 04, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The recent second recall of Human Tissue harvested for use in surgical procedures by the FDA has raised eyebrows about the safety of the use of human Tissue during medical procedures. What has also become apparent is that many physicians and dentists never bother to inform their patients that they would be or had received transplanted tissue from cadavers during their surgical procedures. In...

• Medical Malpractive Verdict in Nursing Home Case Shows Jury's Intolerance for Gross Negligence

  Jack Landskroner | August 29, 2006 7:44 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Attorney Ricky Bagolie, Blogs about a recent record setting verdict in San Antonio, Texas where a Jury awarded $160 Million to the family of an senior resident after their legal team was able to establish that the nursing home knowingly paired a frail 81 year old man with a violent, mentally ill roommate who viciously beat him eventually leading to his death.Only two days later after being...

• Antidepressant Meds Increase Risk of Neonatal Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension

  Jack Landskroner | August 17, 2006 10:47 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The FDA has published a July 2006 alert to warn pregnant woman of the risk of taking antidepressant during pregnancy. A recently published case-control study has shown that infants born to mothers who took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) after the 20th week of pregnancy were 6 times more likely to have persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) than infants born to mothers who did...

• Prosecution of Body Parts Snatchers Moving Ahead

  Jack Landskroner | August 11, 2006 5:20 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  For those recipients of allograft tissue transplants taken illegally from cadavers in NY and NJ, you'll be happy to learn that one of the target criminal defendants has apparently entered into an agreement to cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of the other defendants including the alleged mastermind behind the scam, Michael Mastromarino. Mastromarino and three other defendants...

• Greedy Insurance Companies Squeeze Doctors to Pad Their Own Pockets

  Jack Landskroner | July 15, 2006 9:43 AM | 3 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Insurance Industry has misrepresented that an increase in claims and injury awards have caused a so call " insurance crisis" prohibiting carriers from making a profit and in turn resulting in a skyrocketing increase in doctors malpractice insurance premiums. This is the classic Insurance spin and doctors as well as the general public have bought it hook, line and sinker. The industry's...