Category: Medical Malpractice

The North Carolina Legislature recently voted to override Governor Beverly Perdue’s veto of new legislation that limits the amount of damages people may recover in medical-malpractice lawsuits. Proponents of the law say it will reduce medical-malpractice insurance costs and attract more doctors to the state, but critics say it is unconstitutional and wrongly limits the…Read More

A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that only 11 percent of heart attack victims who must be transferred to another hospital are moved within the recommended interval. Patients who suffer a type of myocardial infarction known as a STEMI should be transported with 30 minutes to receive a…Read More

When you are seeking treatment for an injury or illness, you trust that your physician will provide you with the care that will allow your condition to improve. No one expects to have their condition worsen due to the treatment provided. If things do get worse because of your doctor’s actions, you want to be…Read More

North Carolina is one step closer to a view of tort reform that would take away many rights now enjoyed by North Carolina citizens for the last 150 years. The state House of Representatives and Senate recently passed the Tort Reform for Citizens and Businesses bill that would place severe restrictions on all who have…Read More

A recently released study of North Carolina hospitals revealed that no significant improvements in patient safety have taken place from 2002 to 2007. Conducted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in conjunction with Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, the study reviewed over 2,300 randomly selected medical charts from hospital admissions between…Read More