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Post Surgical Infection cases 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Post Surgical Infection cases

Can you imagine having surgery, going home only to return to the hospital days later so sick you can’t breathe, stand or walk? Then you spend months in ICU, on a ventilator and in rehabilitation all because you acquired an infection during or after the surgery that went untreated? Our office can investigate these post…

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Caring for a disabled or elderly loved one in Virginia from out of state 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Caring for a disabled or elderly loved one in Virginia from out of state

I get it. I get it because I’ve been there. You have a loved one who is disabled or older and you are states away. You can’t be there to visit daily, check on home health, interview aides, complain to the nursing home administrator or tell your loved one in person they are loved. When…

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Why is saying “I am sorry,” so hard in business relationships? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Why is saying “I am sorry,” so hard in business relationships?

Last year we filed a case on behalf of a young woman who lost her child in childbirth. Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, and cannot be discussed, one of the requests we made (and frequently make in medical malpractice cases) is that the defendant express in some way, that he or she…

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The law, it is a changing 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

The law, it is a changing

Take a moment to access this Bob Dylan Cover of The Times they are a changing. Press Play. Now, with that well known folk sound in the background I will make my brief but important point about Virginia Non-Compete law or rather Virginia Business Tort law: The law, it is a changing.   A few weeks ago…

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What do Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have in common? 150 150 Dan Frith
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What do Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have in common?

How about greed and the desire to underpay skilled employees.  The answer to the question was revealed due to a class action lawsuit filed by 64,000 programmers and engineers who accused these companies of conspiring not to raid one another’s workforces in the interest of stifling competition and suppressing wages.  The lawsuit uncovered the fact these Silicon…

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Diagnostic Errors: What patients can do to reduce the risk 150 150 Dan Frith
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Diagnostic Errors: What patients can do to reduce the risk

I just read an interesting article from Inside Medical Liability, a publication for the medical profession.  The article, “Look Again – What do you really see? Useful Tips for Avoiding Misdiagnosis” provides some scary information for patients like this: 1.  40,000 to 80,000 patients die each year due to a physician’s incorrect diagnosis of his/her patient’s…

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Bad Grade for Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital 150 150 Dan Frith
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Bad Grade for Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital

Today’s issue (4-29-2014) of the Roanoke Times contained an interesting article on the safety of our area’s hospitals.  The article, “Group Awards C to Franklin County Hospital” reports on the hospital safety ratings produced by The Leapfrog Group.  The Leapfrog Hospital Survey is the gold standard for comparing hospitals’ performance on the national standards of safety,…

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Proving the defendant was a distracted driver 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Proving the defendant was a distracted driver

A few years ago I wrote and published an article in the Virginia Trial Lawyers Magazine about proving liability in an accident case where the defendant in a car or truck accident was a distracted driver. Cell phone records are the best place to start, but did you know that commercial drivers are prohibited by federal law…

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The other Commonwealth gets it right! 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

The other Commonwealth gets it right!

I just read a great article on a movement in Massachusetts where Governor Patrick is recommending the state outlaw (I just love using that word though it is not correctly used here) non-competition agreements in the Commonwealth. According to the author, Attorney Michael Bunis, Governor Patrick proposed a legislative package that would eliminate non-compete agreements, on…

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Even the federal government knows nursing homes are hurting and killing people! 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Even the federal government knows nursing homes are hurting and killing people!

So one plus of having billions of our tax dollars going to pay for Granny’s nursing home stay (Medicare pays first 100 days typically and then if Granny qualifies, Medicaid pays the remainder) is that the feds keep a close eye on their money. And last year, the feds released a four year study that…

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Spinal Cord Stimulators and Paralysis: This Should Not Happen 150 150 Dan Frith
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Spinal Cord Stimulators and Paralysis: This Should Not Happen

Today’s Wall Street Journal (4-16-14) contains a disturbing medical report.  The article is titled, “When Spine Implants Cause Paralysis, Who is to Blame?” Spinal cord stimulators are used to relieve back pain.  Typically, a surgeon places electrodes along the spine.  Extension wires run from the electrodes to a pulse generator which sends low currents of…

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Criminal conviction stands for neglect in group home 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Criminal conviction stands for neglect in group home

In November of last year a Southside Virginia group home operator was convicted and sentenced for criminal abuse and neglect for failing to obtain sufficient medical care for an injured group home resident. The Court of Appeals in Virginia, has just upheld the court’s conviction. Often we will receive calls from family members whose loved…

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