Category: Medical Malpractice Reform

Does the Fear of Malpractice Impact Patient Care?

Jonathan Stone May 30, 2025 No Comments

A recent study highlights a concerning trend among primary care physicians: many feel compelled to provide excessive medical care. According to a national survey published in the Archives of Internal…

AI, Informed Consent & Medical Malpractice

Jonathan Stone July 29, 2024 No Comments

The legal requirement that a patient give “informed consent” prior to receiving medical care is designed to ensure patients understand the terms of the treatment they’ll be receiving – making…

Medical malpractice expert witnesses face tougher scrutiny

Jonathan Stone June 15, 2012 No Comments

When someone files a medical malpractice claim, expert witnesses can be the difference between winning and losing the case because of the expertise that they contribute to the lawsuit. But,…

New Study Details Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Defense Costs

Jonathan Stone May 11, 2012 No Comments

A recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an interesting letter detailing new findings of a study on physicians’ medical malpractice costs. The ultimate conclusion of the…

Military members lack protection in medical negligence cases

Jonathan Stone April 12, 2012 No Comments

In July 2009, a member of the U.S. military underwent surgery to have his gallbladder removed. But when military doctors began performing the routine laparoscopic procedure, a serious surgical errorwas…

Program offers solutions to speed up malpractice suits

Jonathan Stone December 2, 2011 No Comments

If you have been reading our Chicago medical malpractice law blog for some time now, you may have come to the conclusion that medical malpractice is far more common than…

Will Congress Pass the HEALTH Act?

Jonathan Stone November 18, 2011 No Comments

It appears nearly all members of the United States Legislature and the president agree that the nation’s health care system needs to undergo reform, but there is disagreement as to…

New Law Helps Illinois Patients Vet Doctors

Jonathan Stone September 6, 2011 No Comments

We trust doctors with the most intimate details of our lives, trusting that they will use this information to help us and to cure what ails us. But how much…

Supreme Court Rejects Military Hospital Medical Malpractice Case

Jonathan Stone August 3, 2011 No Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case challenging a decades-old legal doctrine that prevents service members from seeking medical malpractice damages against military hospitals. The case involves…

Proposed Caps on Malpractice Liability Could Have a Major Impact on Severely Injured Individuals

Jonathan Stone March 2, 2011 No Comments

Medical errors happen every day. When most people hear about mistakes being made in hospitals that lead to severe brain damage or permanent injury, they think that it is the…

Accessing Medical Records

Jonathan Stone March 27, 2009 No Comments

In an increasingly mobile society, getting and transferring medical records has become a commonplace need. Public Citizen Health Research Group, www.citizen.org/hrg, correctly points out these facts about medical records: You…

Tobacco Settlements – Ten Years Later

Jonathan Stone January 16, 2009 No Comments

In the news on reform of the civil justice system, consumers–and their lawyers–are always depicted as the enemy, creators of all manner of ill: expensive products and loss of doctors…

Doctor Discipline

Jonathan Stone October 25, 2007 No Comments

Being injured by medical malpractice is bad when the doctor is an established, well-respected licensed doctor; but it’s tragedy when he’s none of those things. In July of 2006, Jose…

Why Doctors Don’t Disclose Errors: It Isn’t Fear of Medical Malpractice Suits

Jonathan Stone August 21, 2007 No Comments

According to two studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, doctors’ hesitation to self-report their errors is not related to fear of law suits. The studies compared the rate…

Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages

Jonathan Stone July 7, 2007 No Comments

Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages,…

Questions Raised About Malpractice Insurance Company

Jonathan Stone April 19, 2007 No Comments

The state’s biggest malpractice insurer has posted its biggest profit since the 1980s, increasing pressure on the company to cut rates that have surged in the past five year. http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=27575&post_date=2007-4-14

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