For parents who have lost a child, the grief is tremendous. With pregnancy comes the expectation of normal birth and a child. Unlike some conditions, pregnancy seems so normal, and so many proceed with few issues that it is shockingly disorienting for something to go...
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Indiana House Approves Increase to Medical Malpractice Damage CAP
The Indiana legislature is again considering changes to the state's medical malpractice damage cap. A bill has cleared the House and now moves to a conference committee, and then to the Senate, if the committee can reach an agreement. An earlier bill died in the house...
The Magnitude of the Harm
Birth injuries are among the most affecting of all medical malpractice cases, in both senses of the word "effect." They affect the health of the child, leaving them with a lifetime of medical consequences and they are affecting emotionally because they cause harm to...
Deadlines and Facts Are Important in a Medical Malpractice Case
During a personal injury lawsuit, there is typically a complaint and a response. After those documents are filed with the court, a party can file a motion for summary judgment. This motion says that even if everything in the complaint is 100 percent true, there is no...
Medical Malpractice Damage CAP Reform Has Died in Legislature
The reform attempt in the Indiana legislature to amend the state's limits on medical malpractice damage caps has hit a roadblock, as negotiations have broken down between the parties over a failure to agree on the terms of the amendment. It had looked like the groups,...
Taking Control After Birth Injuries
Pregnancy is an exciting, stressful time in any parent's life. There are so many things a pregnant woman is supposed to do to protect her unborn child and mothers-to-be go to great lengths to ensure they are taking what they need to take and avoiding what they need to...
The Tyranny of Medical Malpractice Damage CAPS
Here's a fundamental problem with medical malpractice damage caps. They allow doctors and hospitals to shift the cost of care for patients injured due to the doctor's medical malpractice to taxpayers via Medicaid instead of their medical malpractice insurance carrier....
Breast Cancer Survival Rates for Two Treatments Similar
Cancer is a frightening disease. From its seemingly unpredictable appearance in some people to its terrifying prevalence in some families, it is diagnosis no patient wants to receive. Yet it is better to be diagnosed early when the disease may be limited and removal...
Medical Malpractice Is Generally No Accident
When a doctor makes a medical mistake or some type of hospital negligence occurs it typically is not because there was some element of the treatment that was so esoteric that the doctor failed to understand the problem. Mistakes in medicine are typically just that,...
Indiana’s Medical Malpractice CAP Increase Overdue
Some in Indiana are wondering when the state will increase the cap on medical malpractice damages. While the law has been challenged in past years, the fact that it has not been increased since it was created in 1999, suggests to some that a challenge to the cap could...