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CASE REPORT: 45 YEAR OLD CALIFORNIA MAN AWARDED $11.7 MILLION 150 150 Bo Frith
  • Bo Frith

CASE REPORT: 45 YEAR OLD CALIFORNIA MAN AWARDED $11.7 MILLION

According to the LA Times, Joey Crumes, a 45 year old Californian, was awarded $11.7 million dollars in a lawsuit against ER physician, Andrew Lawson and radiologist Charles Aucreman. Crumes went to the emergency room at Mission Hospital complaining of a severe headache. Crumes told the doctors that several years before he had been operated…

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NURSING HOMES MAKE MONEY? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

NURSING HOMES MAKE MONEY?

We have written about it before, the difference between for-profit and non-profit health care. If your nursing home is “for profit” you have a legal duty towards your shareholders, to maximize profits. But what does that duty, do for your residents and staff? Many for-profit nursing homes will tell us in depositions and discovery in…

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MEDICAL ERRORS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

MEDICAL ERRORS

Did you listen? The People’s Pharmacy, a weekly NPR feature had a great show on this week about medical errors. To listen, and or order a copy of the show, click here. The show’s guests were Janet Lynn Mitchell, a patient’s right’s advocate and author of Taking A Stand. Her Web site is http://www.janetlynnmitchell.com/ and…

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VIOLATIONS ALLEGED AT PENNSYLVANIA NURSING HOME 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

VIOLATIONS ALLEGED AT PENNSYLVANIA NURSING HOME

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare filed a complaint Thursday against the Holland-Glen Nursing Facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. The complaint alleges the facility has been operating without a nursing facility license and its services “substantially depart from generally accepted professional standards of care, thereby exposing patients to significant risk and,…

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CLOTHES RETAILER AWARDED $1.5 MILLION FOR BREACH OF NON-COMPETE 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CLOTHES RETAILER AWARDED $1.5 MILLION FOR BREACH OF NON-COMPETE

You could call it a plus-sized legal victory for Casual Male, the leading retailer for big and tall men. A Massachusetts court awarded the clothier $1.5 million in damages stemming from a non-compete clause it had with a former employee. Casual Male alleged that Robert Yarborough, an employee of its Rochester Big & Tall store…

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$54 MILLION ON NURSING HOME VERDICT IN NEW MEXICO 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

$54 MILLION ON NURSING HOME VERDICT IN NEW MEXICO

Our congratulations go west today – to attorney Carl Bettinger, who called his jury “heroes” “and said he was honored to have represented Barber’s daughter, Lori Keith, in taking on “one of the largest corporations in the country … so she could show the public what happened to her mother and in so doing save…

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PREVENTING MALPRACTICE AND MEDICAL ERRORS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

PREVENTING MALPRACTICE AND MEDICAL ERRORS

One of my favorite radio shows is The People’s Pharmacy – a show based out of the Raleigh Durham N.C. area that airs on public radio. Tomorrow, the program is on how to prevent or avoid malpractice / medical errors from being committed against you. It should be interesting. For a listing schedule – check…

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ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CLASS-ACTION AGAINST NURSING HOME 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CLASS-ACTION AGAINST NURSING HOME

A lawsuit against a Fort Smith, Arkansas based nursing home company can proceed as a class-action suit, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court affirmed a decision by the trial court which granted class-action certification to a suit alleging Batesville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center failed to live up to contractual and legal obligations to…

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PENNSYLVANIA: 175 SURGICAL MISTAKES IN 30 MONTHS! 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

PENNSYLVANIA: 175 SURGICAL MISTAKES IN 30 MONTHS!

In one case, doctors removed a patient’s healthy thyroid after a laboratory mix-up led to an incorrect cancer diagnosis. In another, a neurosurgeon halted a procedure after making an incision on the wrong side of the patient’s head. In yet another, a surgeon inserted a needle into a patient’s right knee before realizing that the…

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PIGS GET FAT … BUT HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED! 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

PIGS GET FAT … BUT HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED!

This good advice is given by Susan McGreevy, an attorney in Kansas City, Missouri in an article appearing in Contractormag.org, the news magazine for mechanical contracting. McGreevy tells her readers, presumably mechanical contracting companies, to use reasonable restrictions on its employees or run the risk that a judge may decide not to enforce the agreement.…

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IS YOUR HOSPITAL TAKING STEPS TO PREVENT INFECTION? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

IS YOUR HOSPITAL TAKING STEPS TO PREVENT INFECTION?

We have all read the stories in the newspaper about otherwise infection free patients contracting horrible and often antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections while in the hospital. It looks like some hospitals are finally doing something about this serious problem. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 26 that several hospitals are aggressively screening patients with new…

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VIRGINIA LITIGATION OVER NON-COMPETE 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

VIRGINIA LITIGATION OVER NON-COMPETE

We have heard from our friends in the Beach / Tidewater area of Virginia, about an on-going legal action regarding non-compete agreement that was allegedly breached. Read all about it here & here. So what is going on? Mike Schwartz of Inside Business reported June 18th, that the “dispute between Resource and Monarch banks over…

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