Medical Malpractice

• Nursing Homes Need to be Monitored

  Paul Grieco | March 27, 2007 4:42 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Nursing homes just like hospitals and doctors offices need to be properly monitored in order to prevent injury and death due to negligence. All too often negligence in nursing homes goes undetected and is ignored due to the fact that those that are patients are typically the oldest and sickest and unfortuneately can be ignored. Many states are now starting to inhance their inspections of...

• Walter Reed Hospital Just Like Other Hospitals

  Paul Grieco | March 06, 2007 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Recent disclosures have revealed that many of our Veterans are not getting the medical care and treatment they rightfully need and deserve. The head of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was fired due to the poor care and conditions in that miltary hospital. The real tragedy here is that, such poor care and despicable conditions are occurring throughout the country and affecting patients...

• Nursing Home Injuries and Neglect Continue to Be a National Concern

  Jack Landskroner | January 29, 2007 2:33 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Across the country we continue to hear horror stories of nursing home neglect and negligence often resulting in injury and the wrongful death of loved ones trusted to these facilities. Injuryboard lawyer Barry Doyle recently blogged on an unfortunate incident at a Kansas City nursing home where the facility was fined as a result of the death of a resident. The facility was using bed rails to...

• The President Misses the Mark on Medical Malpractice

  Jack Landskroner | January 24, 2007 8:46 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  If you are a victim of medical malpractice in Ohio, you have your back up against the wall and if President Bush has his way that's exactly where you will stay. Last night during his annual State of the Union address, President Bush said, "[T]o protect good doctors from junk lawsuits, we need to pass medical liability reform." In a continuation of a theme repeated throughout his presidency,...

• Decrease in Cancer Deaths for Second Straight Year

  Rebecca Castell | January 17, 2007 5:18 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Today, the Associate Press reports that the number of cancer-related deaths has dropped for the second year in a row. Since 1930, the number of deaths each year has continued to climb until 2002-2003, where a small drop in deaths was first seen. Statistics were just released for 2003-2004, indicating a substantial decline in deaths due to cancer. A second year of decrease proves the decrease...

• Human Tissue Litigaiton Update

  Jack Landskroner | January 17, 2007 1:15 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  There are many individuals who have received transplanted human cadaver tissue during surgical procedures that should remain informed as to the status of the Human Tissue Litigation being prosecuted in a multi-district litigation forum centralized in the Federal District Court in Newark, NJ. My clients and others regularly contact my office to get an update on the status of these lawsuits. At...

• Tort Reform Statutes Effecting Victims Ability to Retain a Medical Mapractice Attorney

  Jack Landskroner | January 04, 2007 1:12 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Patients injured by the Medical Malpractice of physicians and hospitals are finding it more and more difficult to find a medical malpractice attorney willing to handle their case. Veteran plaintiffs' attorneys are leaving the field or dramatically limiting the cases they take, in the wake of tort reform and dwindling jury awards.For years the insurance industry has driven up the litigation...

• Lack of Sleep Can Lead To Medical Mistakes

  Paul Grieco | December 13, 2006 2:36 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  A recent study has indicated that medical residents who are required to work long shifts and are often sleep deprived, put patients at risk of being the victim of a medical mistake. Allowing medical residents to practice medicine after having been awake for over 18 -24 hours straight, jeopordizes patients as the lack of sleep affects ones abilty to think clearly. Researchers found that when...

• Birth defects related to Paxil during pregnancy

  Rebecca Castell | November 30, 2006 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  A year after Paxil manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline reclassified the drug to indicate a risk of birth defects, a group of obstetricians has declared that pregnant women and those who plan to become pregnant should steer clear of the drug. The antidepressant has been linked to heart defects when taken in the first trimester and other complications when taken later in pregnancy. Use of Paxil and...

• Medical Malpractice or Just a Bad Outcome?

  Jack Landskroner | November 12, 2006 9:29 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  What is medical malpractice? Generally medical malpractice, also know as medical negligence, occurs when a physician or medical professional fails to practice within the realm of accepted medical standards. In English, this means that a doctor or care provider failed to do what a reasonable care provider would have done or in the alternative did something that the care provider should not have...