InjuryBoard Chicago Archives

• Judges Go Back To School For Science Class

  Staff Writer | July 31, 2006 9:36 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Judges in several statets are attending a new kind of Medical School, not to become doctors, but to become better judges in complex litigation. A non-profit school in Washington uses doctors and scientists to educate judges so that they can become more familiar with the underlying issues involved in medical malpractice, products liability or intellectual property suits. Since judges are to be...

• How Low Can You Go?

  Staff Writer | July 28, 2006 10:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Seemingly, the medical profession has lost all sense of reason and ethics in their obsession to blame victims for unreasonably high malpractice premiums. A new website encourages doctors to blacklist patients and plaintiff attorneys who have filed medical malpractice suits. Ironically, plaintiffs whose cases resulted in not guilty verdicts are encouraged to sue their lawyers for professional...

• Litigation Defense - Fraudulent Studies

  Staff Writer | July 27, 2006 10:47 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Scientific Fraud by industry is not limited to the motive of increased sales; it is also designed to defend lawsuits. I am currently prosecuting a Sanctions Motion against a Product Liability Defendant for secretly creating a "peer reviewed study" to promote its litigation strategy. The Scientific Fraud in my case occurred when the researcher deceived the Journal Editors by 1) failing to...

• Conflicted Medical Journals

  Staff Writer | July 25, 2006 2:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  If you've been reading the newspapers lately, you can't miss articles and editorials concerning the proliferation of Conflicts of Interest in Medical Studies. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Chicago Tribune; several stories are surfacing about researchers who deceive the editors and readers of Medical Journals by hiding their financial ties to...

• Depressing Antidepressants Conflicts

  Staff Writer | July 24, 2006 10:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Doctors from Cardiff University in Wales have revealed that previous studies concerning antidepressants had inflated their safety statistics. Referring to the SSRI drugs (Selective Serotonim Reuptake Inhibitors), the Cardiff Study found that the risks of suicides have been routinely understated while the benefits have been overhyped. In future blogs I will discuss how often researchers fail to...

• Drug Errors Injure 1.5 Million Patients

  Staff Writer | July 20, 2006 4:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The Institute of Medicine has reported that 1.5 Million patients each year are injured in hospitals as a result of medication errors. The study revealed the alarming statistic that at least one medical error occurs to each patient every day. The cost for additional medical treatment necessary to address the drug errors averages $5,800 per patient, which totals about $3.5 Billion in increased...

• Tobacco Class De-Certification Opens Floodgates

  Staff Writer | July 13, 2006 5:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Although the Tobacco makers celebrated the Florida Supreme Court ruling which de-certified the Class on which a billion dollar plus punitive damages award was vacated, the underlying jury verdict remains. That means that between 300,000 and 700,000 Plaintiffs who are eligiible to file individual lawsuits against the Tobacco makers can rely on the prior guilty verdict of Deceptive Practices. ...

• Who Let the Docs Out?

  Staff Writer | July 11, 2006 3:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Contrary to the general belief that doctors are leaving the profession, in the past 20 years, the number of doctors per capita increased 50 percent. Unfortunately for patients, most of the new ones settle in areas where the supply is already above average - places like Florida and New York - rather than places which lack doctors, like the rural South. Studies show that more doctors doesn't...